Installing port without dialog boxes?

[Kris Kennaway]

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
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