If installing from a CD/DVD, use the arrow keys to highlight . Ensure that is highlighted, then press Enter to proceed with the installation.
For 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.
FTP Installation Modes:
There are three FTP installation modes to choose from: active FTP, passive FTP, or via a HTTP proxy.
- FTP Active:
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.
- FTP Passive:
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.
- FTP via a HTTP proxy:
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
[email protected] 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.