From: francis yeung <fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com>
Message-Id: <199601211744.RAA00472@fyeung5.netific.com>
Subject: RE: ftp'ing BSD through a proxy server (fwd)
To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:44:04 +0000 ()
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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
> 
>