From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 06:40:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B509416A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1858843D2F for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B93Mz-0007Oy-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:40:37 +0200 Received: from dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.76.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:40:37 +0200 Received: from jdarnold by dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:40:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:17:42 -0500 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <20040326142811.B10719@cto.gda.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040310 MultiZilla/1.6.3.0d X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja In-Reply-To: <20040326142811.B10719@cto.gda.pl> Sender: news Subject: Re: Ports/CD images? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:40:39 -0000 Igor Skalski wrote: > I would like to try to install FreeBSD on my home computer wchich is not > connected to the Internet. In my opinion the most important aspect of > using free software in such a conditions is possessing whole set of CD's > containing both most important programs and source code. > I can not find on the Internet CD images containing ports and sources. > Are they available anywhere? I am not intend to buy the CD set - at least > before trying the system. You're right, I don't see any CD image available online that contains all the packages, which is a little surprising. However, CDs containing lots of the packages are available very cheaply. I just checked http://www.cheapbytes.com , and they have 4 & 6 CD sets available for as low as US$6. So you might invest in one of those. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/