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by Phillip Pearson.
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We know of one FreeBSD PA install, so it's definitely possible. I don't have a FreeBSD VM though, so it's as good a time as any to install one.
I downloaded the 23MB bootonly ISO image and kicked off an install. It failed the first couple of times, until I realised that I had to select 'ftp (passive)' mode to get through the pair of NAT gateways (vmware, and my linux router) between the VM and the internet, and after that it started moving.
Oddly, I can get 600kB/sec downloading from ftp.freebsd.org to my server in the USA (and about 200kB/sec from there to my home in NZ), but only 14kB/sec if I try FTP directly from home to ftp.freebsd.org. So the network install is painfully slow; it's been running in the background for about half an hour and only downloaded 19MB.
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