From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 15:09:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09110 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09104 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA13269; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:09:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: marrandy@tampabay.rr.com cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Help with ftp install via Proxy In-Reply-To: <35C1BF88.D6FD9B4C@tampabay.rr.com> 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 Fri, 31 Jul 1998 marrandy@tampabay.rr.com wrote: > Hello :) > > can anyone either point me to a good source of info for doing an ftp > install via Proxy server. > > I'd like to try FreeBsd, but can't get anywhere (I'm stuck) and I have > never done a Ftp install before. > > Or...can someone lead me by the nose (so to speak). Look at the sysinstall Options page; you can set FTP Passive mode, which usually gets around proxies. > I presently use cute Ftp through my proxy and that works fine. My > present machines are win95, but I want to do Unicies (?) You can also copy the files from a DOS partition on the machine. The installation instructions explain how to do this. 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