Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:04:55 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom Message-ID: <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net>
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Graham North wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for downloading a ports collection - > probably via windows machine and burning to CDROM? > My HD is small and runs out of nodes when the Ports collection is > installed - but what about downloading and making my CD - will I need > to save as ISO image? File format issues? Indexing issues? > Thanks, Graham/ > > Where would /ports/distfiles go? And what about ~/work subdirs? They must be writable. You need hard disk to do this. You can use a refuse file to trim the size of /usr/ports, but you can't use the ports tools to do auto upgrading unless you have the whole tree (can't find the doc ATM, a thread on questions@ recently addressed this.) If you're unable to add HDD space, why not use packages? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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