kickstart proxy

[John Summerfield]

Kaj Niemi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Jan 29, 2008, at 13:44, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>>> Had a quick look at the code and I would dare to say that it is only 
>>> implemented
>>> in the interactive installs.  I don't see it in pykickstart and dont 
>>> see it in
>>> the args that loader receives.  not 100% sure though, only 99% :)
>>
>> I'm going to resurrect a trick I employed for Taroon beta; it's 
>> documented in the list's archives.
> 
> 
> I've used squid in reverse proxy mode. It works great if you're able to 
> set the url in the kickstart file somehow.

I set a DNAT rule on an intermediate box.

Ordinarily I install from a local system on my LAN, so I've never needed 
a proxy. This time, the target system's on the wrong side of a slow 
wireless link and the Internet at large is faster. However, I wanted to 
cache for reruns.

I can now report the proxy settings don't come up with an interactive 
kickstart.

With taroon, the problem was a little different, Anaconda was using a 
duff host: header, so I had to interpose a local Apache to fix it. I 
don't recall a problem with proxy then, but perhaps I was doing an 
interactive not-ks install off the RH servers, or perhaps I was using 
transparent proxy.



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John

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