From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 3:45:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.64.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC9714A20 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 03:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) Received: from rz114s0-priv-server (rz114s0-197.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.197.20]) by mailgate.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 12FFE4-0001YP-00; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:42:36 +0100 Received: from un1i by rz114s0-priv-server with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12FFE0-0005Qr-00; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:42:32 +0100 From: Philipp Mergenthaler To: q9405096@brampton.cqu.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install behind firewall; FTP over HTTP proxies. X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <873dtu$gcc$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4-19991113 ("No Labels") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/829)) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 12:42:32 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <873dtu$gcc$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> you wrote:55 > I've been given a lab machine at uni to do an install of (OS of choice) > on. I haven't played with the BSDs yet, but from the small amounts of the > install program I've seen, it looks quite good. > 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. FreeBSD-current has this option. You'd have to get the boot disk images (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) from e.g. ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.0-20000127-CURRENT/floppies/ (Sorry, I don't know if there's an australian server with snapshots of FreeBSD-current). Since you don't have experience with FreeBSD, I'd suggest you don"t install -current, though. :-) In the main menu of the installation program, go to "options" and enter 3.4-RELEASE in the field for the release to install. If the download per proxy doesn't work, please let me know. Bye, Philipp -- http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message