From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 25 7: 1:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from funnel.cisco.com (funnel.cisco.com [161.44.131.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8917137B422; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [161.44.133.25]) by funnel.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id KAA12506; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:01:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18109; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:02:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Message-Id: <200009251402.KAA18109@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: qa@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Sysinstall HTTP Proxy install information... Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:02:51 -0400 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message