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Gerard Seibert writes:

>  > The questions is, how do I re-initialize the
>  > installation process so I could go to the installation
>  > menu once more and set the options?
>  
>  I would use: 'make distclean' to clean out everything that you started
>  doing.
>  
>  Then I believe you can use this:
>  
>  make config
>  
>  or
>  
>  make config-recursive
>  
>  to reconfigure the port. The latter might be the better way for you.

	See also "make rmconfig".


				Robert Huff