From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 16:25:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03416 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03262 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13590; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:24:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Don Muerte cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a little help for a moron. In-Reply-To: <000201bd7286$ed02a6c0$1be46c82@anubis..wright.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Don Muerte wrote: > I'm kind of embarassed about this, but I'm a bit confused on how to > install FreeBSD through my proxy server. I read some things in the > installation instructions about setting up a proxy server and "faking" > it, but I don't seem to understand where and how to go about doing these > things that it mentions. I may end up using a dial up connection to do > this, but I'd like to know just how I can get around this long download. Try setting FTP passive mode on the Options page. What type of proxy do you have to go through? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message