From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 7 12:45:35 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4ED3C8DE for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:45:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x234.google.com (mail-la0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3AA717AC for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id c6so2635076lan.11 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 04:45:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=xQSYMpcccisQgS8p7UhrXwJWH2enLh9R/e9ZYNQUOwY=; b=P4+JkQOrglQyExTETJTn+nPiY75YG67hDC97bUFnLSBlu9CDsCplwsx+gVdXIuQg7d 6zKkcRFKAIhhx7qGFMzSOfmxUzZzOOlMsvP3m4E8/4+My/RTZLHQxYUVoHYXttYGIUp2 qyzhXHrR/mu4MxF0umLR6XJX0QYyltKkgPZVVEm8MG0BiMjEJ1+UCwPySV5NIEqyU7yQ FWkyI9Zs0qegAUxpiPBbr59ifqK5dBrO3ts8lz2GyPo/8pK3XzqKZJS64Gwhkycad6lH lSFzlENxQH5h2MJ9HKBvAVBr/p5Hwam63uSKMp93yqmeNJRjz9RS9jBXfsOyTKRS8NVR tn7g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.205.11 with SMTP id lc11mr9937051lac.29.1391777132628; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 04:45:32 -0800 (PST) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.0.81 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 04:45:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 07:45:32 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Ir4Q_KekOaIoZCoUWqP-JKh2cws Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How? From: Rick Miller To: Alban Hertroys Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: freebsd-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:45:35 -0000 On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > Hi all, > > For an experiment @work I figured I'd install FreeBSD 10 x64 in a > VMWare virtual machine that was made available to me, but I'm kind of > stuck installing ports or packages... > > The thing is, the vmware tools provided with this version of VMWare > (VMware=AE Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776) are packaged with a Perl > script and there it looks like there is no Perl in FreeBSD 10. > > We're behind an NT/LM authenticated proxy, which I haven't managed to > get past yet from the FreeBSD installation in the VM, so downloading > distfiles (Perl, for example) isn't currently possible. > > I created a shared folder in VMWare to store distfiles on, but > apparently I need VMWare tools installed to access such a folder, > which brings me back to the Perl problem. > > It appears that I need samba & squid to have NT/LM authentication to > get through the proxy so that I can download ports & packages, but to > obtain packages for those I need to be able to get through the proxy > first. > > How do I solve this conundrum? > You may consider obtaining the DVD ISO to upload to your ESX store; Attach it to the VM's cdrom device and boot to it which starts the installation. Everything you need to build the OS is on the DVD. --=20 Take care Rick Miller