To: bsd-dk@hotel.prosa.dk Subject: Re: Installing from behind a firewall From: Anton Berezin <none@tobez--plab.ku.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> Date: 25 Feb 1999 11:51:14 +0100
"Peter Holm" <none@peter_holm_1--hotmail.com.lh.bsd-dk.dk> writes:
> I'm stuck behind a rather restrictive firewall. I would like to
> upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1 and not go thru the same procedure as last:
> Download with Netscape to a dos partition.
> On 3.0 I can ftp a single file using:
> ftp_proxy:proxy_server:xxxx
> ftp -p ftp://ftp.dk.freebsd/pub/FreeBSD/...
> but if I as a test start /stand/sysinstall up, using passive ftp
> proxy I get `connection in wrong state'
> Any suggestions ?
If you can manage (by playing with -P option) cvsup to work properly,
then installation of 3.1 sources and making buildworld/installworld
might be a good way for an upgrade.
-- Anton Berezin <none@tobez--plab.ku.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen
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