From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 17:35:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0481065674 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:35:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BC88FC1A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2DHZOSL028276 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:35:30 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B9BCCDC.20302@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:35:24 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eitan Adler References: <4B992AA3.1080504@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall: download via pure http X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:35:36 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2010 14:22:58, Eitan Adler wrote: >> >> You can just access ftp.freebsd.org by HTTP > > but sysinstall doesn't give me that option - or at least I can't find it For the initial install? Yes -- you're right: there's no obvious 'install via HTTP' option. Trying to install via HTTP proxy and saying ftp.freebsd.org:80 when prompted seems like it should work to me, but I haven't verified that. Otherwise, your options are to download the disk1 or DVD .iso images, and install from those -- they have everything you need to install the base system -- or else to download the install sets out-of-band to a local filesystem and install that way. One handy hint when installing is *don't feel you have to do everything from within sysinstall*. Your priority should be to get the OS up and running: everything else you can do from within the OS, which is a far more flexible and powerful platform than sysinstall. That power comes at the cost of maybe not being particularly obvious exactly how to do what you want, but that is why the Handbook exists. If you're trying to install packages via HTTP rather than FTP, then try setting PACKAGEROOT in your environment. Like this: PACKAGEROOT=http://ftp.freebsd.org ; export PACKAGEROOT (Borne-shell) or setenv PACKAGEROOT http://ftp.freebsd.org (Csh-alikes) then use 'pkg_add -r pkgname' in the usual way. See login.conf(5) and cap_mkdb(1) for one way of setting such variables in the environment automatically when you login. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkubzNwACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyG6QCcDQxl5QdnQp1Ne206sCNTHZwZ y+YAn3dU9g1XUBKRwhXaeva8/FP7E7zn =H9jT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----