Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:55:13 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing ports witout internet Message-ID: <3E6EBDB1.70506@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F175kieqXItMcx0001db9c@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-F175kieqXItMcx0001db9c@hotmail.com>
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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
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