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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:02:51 -0400
From:      Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>
To:        qa@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Sysinstall HTTP Proxy install information...
Message-ID:  <200009251402.KAA18109@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>

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Just in case someone has more time than I do to look at this, I've been playing
with sysinstall, most notably installation through an HTTP proxy. 

I've found what I believe to be two distinct bugs.

The first is when you try to set one of the pre-fab choices, such as
installing from ftp.freebsd.org, or releng4.freebsd.org, etc. It appears that
the request sent to the web proxy does not include the "i386" part of the
path. I tried to trace it down, and found in ftp.c that it should be being
added. Strange, but...

The second I experience when hand-entering the URL and proxy information. It
appears in this case, it tries to download the .inf file, correctly (ie - 
bin.inf), and it claims it parses it. However, something odd seems to happen,
and sysinstall does not realize that it is supposed to be receiving chunks,
and asks for "bin.tgz", rather than "bin.aa, bin.ab, etc...". 

This is after an hour or so of looking (the most time I could get in over the
weekend with 3 kids). It looks like it should be an easy fix for someone who
has time to get familiar with how sysinstall works (which is where most of my
hour went).

Anyhow, as mentioned, this is a pointer for anyone who may have more free time
than I.

	-Brian


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