How to do network install behind proxy?

[Ed K.]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Walter Francis wrote:
> I am attempting to try the latest snapshot work of FC5 on a machine at work for some
> testing to help locate bugs, also to regress a few bugs I've logged against the FC5t3
> DVD release.
>
> However, I can not figure out how to set a proxy for a network install, and I
> absolutely have one at work.  Is there some clever way to do this?

Not really, I've submitted a RFE a long time ago, and there hasn't been a 
solution:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125917

>
> Alternately, anyone have a cooked up method to use another server as proxy?  I have an
> FC3 machine there I could use as a proxy of sorts.

Yes there is! The magic word is a "web accelerator".

magic incantations, are documented here for squid:
http://squid-docs.sourceforge.net/latest/book-full.html#AEN2416

That way a 'web' server inside your network will look like a web server on 
the outside. Forcing squid to use an upstream proxy may be another trick, 
but that is the only unknown I see here.

Question for your IT team: who sets up a forced proxy without transparent 
proxy support? Still use a proxy, but support tools that don't know how 
to use a proxy, like the Fedora installer, will still work.

ed k