From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 1:23:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B55A14C0A for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@kearneys.ca) Received: (qmail 2389 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Jan 2000 09:23:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:23:53 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: Chris O'Callaghan Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Install behind firewall; FTP over HTTP proxies. Message-ID: <20000131012353.A2369@kearneys.ca> References: <20000131010534.A2285@kearneys.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from chrisoc@bestweb.net on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 04:14:29AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 04:14:29AM -0600, Chris O'Callaghan wrote: > This message ended in my inbox because of my poor procmail rules, but I > believe I can help you. You should be able to do an ftp install of freebsd > through squid using the passive ftp option. You simply put the ftp server > name before an @ symbol and the ip of your proxy, > ie. ftp.cdrom.com@proxy.yournet.com. > > Brent, please correct me if I am wrong :) > > Chris O'Callaghan chrisoc@bestweb.net > President Shelob Design and Engineering > (413) 323-0042 > I think Damian's difficulty is (partially) due to his not having control over the firewall at his university. I assume this firewall allows http, but not ftp, proxy services. Sorry, I should have quoted more of his message. I know if I were to ask ACS at my university to open the proxy for ftp, they'd chuckle a bit before hanging up on me ;) -brent > On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Brent Kearney wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:33:22PM +1000, damian wrote: > > > > > > My problem: Can I use an HTTP proxy (squid) to install FreeBSD? If not, > > > I'll revert to Debian, as I don't have time to wait for a CD to arrive. > > > -- > > > > You could use http to download an ISO... > > > > -brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message