INSTALLSW(8) BSD System Manager's Manual INSTALLSW(8)
NAME
installsw - copy packages to disk from installation media
SYNOPSIS
installsw [-l remote_user] [-t] [-p]
DESCRIPTION
Installsw is the means by which packages are copied from floppy disk,
tape, or CDROM to a filesystem. It is an interactive program and has no
batch counterpart.
Installsw asks a few questions about the environment and then moves to a
full-screen interactive display of available packages. The user selects
packages he wishes to install. When finished, the `Q' key instructs
installsw to proceed with package installation.
All questions asked by installsw are shown as a question, a default (be-
tween square brackets), and then a colon. Replies are entered on the
same line as the question. If the user types a return (with no other da-
ta entered), the default is used.
If the installation is to use a remote media, the current user (usually
root) must have remote access. If you wish installsw to perform remote
actions with an alternate user ID, specify the appropriate name with the
`-l' option.
Before the first question is asked, installsw checks to ensure that the
screen is correctly sized - this causes some terminals (e.g., xterm) to
blink briefly.
The -p option forces installsw to use pax to extract the archives. The
-t options forces it to use tar instead.
Installsw reports its actions in voluminous detail.
HISTORY
The command first appeared in BSD/386 release 0.9.3.
BSDI March 27, 1993 1