> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > Just in case someone has more time than I do to look at this, I've been pl
aying
> > with sysinstall, most notably installation through an HTTP proxy.
> [...]
> > The first is when you try to set one of the pre-fab choices, such as
> > installing from ftp.freebsd.org, or releng4.freebsd.org, etc. It appears t
hat
> > the request sent to the web proxy does not include the "i386" part of the
>
> Correct. The method by which the directory on the FTP server is found
> has been changed in ftp.c some time ago. Since installing via proxy
> relied on this, it is now broken.
>
> A patch is in PR bin/21449
>
Ok. Well, if 4.1.1 hasn't been cut yet, Jordan should probably grab this
patch and commit.
> > The second I experience when hand-entering the URL and proxy information.
It
> > appears in this case, it tries to download the .inf file, correctly (ie -
> > bin.inf), and it claims it parses it. However, something odd seems to happ
en,
> > and sysinstall does not realize that it is supposed to be receiving chunks
,
> > and asks for "bin.tgz", rather than "bin.aa, bin.ab, etc...".
>
> Hm, I don't see this here - it correctly fetches all chunks of the
> desired distribution. IIRC, the installation falls back to
> "distribution.tgz" if it couldn't get "distribution.inf". I'll take
> another look at it.
This would be good. The debug screen had shown that it had fetched bin.inf,
and had "parsed" it. Looking at my web proxy log, it had requested bin.inf,
and the URL was correct, so I'm guessing it either a.) got it, parsed it,
and something didn't go right, or, the web server sent it, and it didn't
do the right thing with it.
I appreciate the effort to look at this. I'd love to do more, but at the
moment, I'm cramming in an hour here and there.
-Brian
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