Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:09:19 +0100 From: Olivier <olivier@gautherot.net> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom Message-ID: <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> In-Reply-To: <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020207010606060502090201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there! >> 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? > What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS? Olivier --------------020207010606060502090201--
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