Re: Insall over proxy

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:42:16AM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Niklas H?glund,
> > The way I did it, IIRC, is the following:
> >
> > 1. In minicom (on the serial terminal), make sure USB networking is
> > working (using modprobe, ifconfig, etc.)
> >
> > 2. Still on the serial console, set http_proxy.
> >
> > 3. Still on the serial console, run intimate-install. As networking
> > is set up to happen over USB, the packages will be downloaded over
> > USB from the proxy.
>
> So you have some kind of setup where you can do serial-console and usb at
> the same time? I have to switch cables.

Yeah. My cradle has both an USB and a serial cable.

If you don't have that, and can't type an "=" on the virtual keyboard,
you should still be able to log in with ssh over the usb cable from the
workstation. Then you can set http_proxy and start the installation.

There's a nice ssh client for windows called putty that you could use.

Another way could be to create a script when logged in over the serial
console that sets http_proxy and starts the installation. Then you
can start that script from the on-screen keyboard without having to
type an equal sign.

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                                                Niklas