FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[Rick Miller]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For an experiment @work I figured I'd install FreeBSD 10 x64 in a
> VMWare virtual machine that was made available to me, but I'm kind of
> stuck installing ports or packages...
>
> The thing is, the vmware tools provided with this version of VMWare
> (VMware® Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776) are packaged with a Perl
> script and there it looks like there is no Perl in FreeBSD 10.
>
> We're behind an NT/LM authenticated proxy, which I haven't managed to
> get past yet from the FreeBSD installation in the VM, so downloading
> distfiles (Perl, for example) isn't currently possible.
>
> I created a shared folder in VMWare to store distfiles on, but
> apparently I need VMWare tools installed to access such a folder,
> which brings me back to the Perl problem.
>
> It appears that I need samba & squid to have NT/LM authentication to
> get through the proxy so that I can download ports & packages, but to
> obtain packages for those I need to be able to get through the proxy
> first.
>
> How do I solve this conundrum?
>

You may consider obtaining the DVD ISO to upload to your ESX store;  Attach
it to the VM's cdrom device and boot to it which starts the installation.
 Everything you need to build the OS is on the DVD.

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Take care
Rick Miller