Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:44:04 +0000 () From: francis yeung <fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ftp'ing BSD through a proxy server (fwd) Message-ID: <199601211744.RAA00472@fyeung5.netific.com>
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> Greetings, The mail below was posted in questions@freebsd. May be someone can help Chris on this. BTW, does CERN HTTP supports SOCKS ? If it does, we should be able to document the ftp download thru "firewall". Thanks. Francis > > Well, > I guess I need a little more info to give to you, because what you told > me all makes sense, but I need to know if there is a way to install > FreeBSD with the boot disk, making use of FTP through this firewall. I > am pretty sure we have a CERN HTTP proxy server at this time, because I > can use netscape no problem (and moreover, I could FTP the entire BSD > down to my NT machine using netscape, then install from it, but it seems > that the install from FTP would be better since it automatically knows > which files to get (I mean bin files from bin.aa to bin.cp would take > forever doing it with netscape...) > > I was just hoping there was a way to set the ftp proxy for the FreeBSD > 2.1.0 install ftp client. If I could do that, then I could just run the > boot disk, and run the install FTPing everything down at >56Kbs. I > haven't been able to find any such thing as of yet... If there is a way > to configure the FreeBSD install to do this, please share this info with > me... > > Thanks a bunch for taking the time to try to help. > Chris > >
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