If installing from a CD/DVD, use the arrow keys to highlight Enter to proceed with the installation.
. Ensure that is highlighted, then pressFor other methods of installation, select the appropriate option and follow the instructions.
Press F1 to display the Online Help for installation media. Press Enter to return to the media selection menu.
There are three FTP installation modes to choose from: active FTP, passive FTP, or via a HTTP proxy.
This option makes all FTP transfers use “Active” mode. This will not work through firewalls, but will often work with older FTP servers that do not support passive mode. If the connection hangs with passive mode (the default), try using active mode.
This option instructs sysinstall(8) to use passive mode for all FTP operations. This allows the user to pass through firewalls that do not allow incoming connections on random TCP ports.
This option instructs sysinstall(8) to use the HTTP protocol to connect to a proxy for all FTP operations. The proxy will translate the requests and send them to the FTP server. This allows the user to pass through firewalls that do not allow FTP, but offer a HTTP proxy. In this case, specify the proxy in addition to the FTP server.
For a proxy FTP server, give the name of the
server as part of the username, after an
“@” sign. The proxy server then “fakes”
the real server. For example, to install from
ftp.FreeBSD.org
, using the proxy FTP
server foo.example.com
, listening on port
1234, go to the options menu, set the FTP username
to ftp@ftp.FreeBSD.org
and the password to
an
email address. As the installation media, specify FTP (or
passive FTP, if the proxy supports it), and the URL
ftp://foo.example.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD
.
Since /pub/FreeBSD
from
ftp.FreeBSD.org
is proxied under
foo.example.com
, the proxy
will fetch the files
from ftp.FreeBSD.org
as the
installer requests them.
This, and other documents, can be downloaded from http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
For questions about FreeBSD, read the
documentation before
contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.