From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 18:09:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9E116A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C1043D67 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:09:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (du-209-210.nat.adsl.claranet.fr [212.43.209.210]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5201E2A6285; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:09:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:09:19 +0100 From: Olivier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Graham North References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020207010606060502090201" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:09:18 -0000 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--