From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 23:58:41 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 2B6AA16A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:58:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E211643D41 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:58:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CaNJw-000DZE-26 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 23:58:40 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:58:39 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> In-Reply-To: <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412032358.39196.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> 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 23:58:41 -0000 > What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS? I tried that and found that chmod didn't work on NFS. Other remote filesystems like SMB might work if they allow chmod. You might be able to do something with having the ports collection on CD and mounting it as union. -- /Xian "A person who smiles in the face of adversity... probably has a scapegoat" unknown author