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Thanks for the info Kris.  Can you tell me what I need to set it to or
exactly how to do this?  Sorry for the remedial questions but I'm a
total newbie and I couldn't find this info in the handbook.

Thanks again,

Thomas

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 21:44 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:45:35PM -0700, List Admin wrote:
> > I just reinstalled freebsd 5.3 on my machine and I wish to install Gnome
> > next.  Since it takes about 4 days to install on my slow machine, could
> > someone please tell me how I could do an "unattended" install?  I hate
> > looking over at the machine after 8 hours of install only to find a
> > dialog box asking me configuration information.
> 
> Set the BATCH environment variable.
> 
> Kris