Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:24:26 +0100 From: Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> To: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How? Message-ID: <CAF-3MvOYvQCn-hw0v6udOQr%2BgkxwGREDud7=pLiap_J=XBKkhQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHzLAVEW7b43wJw8Nbz=Di8Sz=hJbdYtnfQpFfhNejJ-0SjEHA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF-3MvPCUDjv4tGeFBf1DkRC6gr2QGsMUT_uH6Q0UU9mo9tv_g@mail.gmail.com> <CAHzLAVEW7b43wJw8Nbz=Di8Sz=hJbdYtnfQpFfhNejJ-0SjEHA@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> 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; Atta= ch > 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. I just got that far by myself, but thanks for the suggestion anyway. I'm afraid that not _everything_ I need is on the DVD though. The DVD does include pkg (from which one can extract pkg-static to install it) and perl, but not the open-vm-tools package or the compat6-amd64 that the VMWare supplied vmware-tools claims to require. It also lacks a vmware frame-buffer for Xorg, but perhaps that is provided by the (missing) vmware-tools package? There is a samba package that probably contains the necessary libraries to use NTLM authentication, but no Squid to combine those into a local NTLM-enabled proxy to get past the company proxy. This is my first time dabbling in proxy-waters and weird Windows authentication schemes, so I'm a little reliant on tutorials I found on the internet and the few around all use squid and samba... If there are other (probably better) ways, I'd love to hear them. Perhaps I don't need Squid? Cheers, Alban. --=20 If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.
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