From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 20:55:19 2003 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 44CBA37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:55:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CB643F75 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.42.236]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030312045514.JICM7930.out004.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:55:14 -0600 Message-ID: <3E6EBDB1.70506@mac.com> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:55:13 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing ports witout internet References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [129.44.42.236] at Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:55:14 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lee Harr wrote: >> I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I >> have never experienced installing applications offline. >> >> My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port >> collection ) on a machine that's not connected to the internet? > > Possible? Of course. Fun? Not exactly. > > Thing is, FreeBSD is designed to be connected to a network. Things > are so easy that I constantly amaze people with installing all > sorts of software just by typing a few words. > > Once you disconnect from the network, you have to do all of the > dependency checking, downloading, transferring, building, etc > manually. It won't be fun. "make fetch-recursive", then burn /usr/ports/distfiles (or all of /usr/ports, for that matter, if you just want to "make install" without waiting to recompile) to a CD-ROM. Then again, there's no reason why the OP couldn't build out a system that was connected to the Internet as they please, back that up, and then restore to the offline system. -- -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message