From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 13:00:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483301065674 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:00:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68628FC12 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:00:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=milibyte.co.uk) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1KcJs8-000183-Mr for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:08 +0100 Received: by milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KcJs7-00013Q-NF for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:08 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:00:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <4b2381fb0809060359u53f85d06u4696d527063c5e4d@mail.gmail.com> <200809071022.37765.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20080907070603.57644dc0.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080907070603.57644dc0.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809071400.07646.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 1d1a7b0c50b8b2f6f2222835f45db505 Subject: Re: switching discs during install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:00:11 -0000 On Sunday 07 September 2008, Randy Pratt wrote: > There is another discussion: > > =A0 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1220762797.29265.43.camel > > which would address the disk swapping by removing all the packages > from disc1 and providing a DVD of packages that could be used > after installation. That looks interesting. It would certainly appeal to me, though I don't=20 expect I'm a "typical" user. My broadband account operates on a PAYG=20 basis, if I go over my monthly usage allowance then I pay per GB for=20 the extra daytime data but all downloads between midnight and 8:00am=20 are still free. With this setup I certainly don't want to be=20 downloading all the packages from a FTP server "on demand" when I'm=20 doing an install. My approach is to fetch the ISOs overnight so that I=20 can install the packages I need to get myself up and running.=20 Afterwards I use portupgrade to bring things up to date, either as a=20 daytime task if there's not too many ports to upgrade or after an=20 overnight run of portupgrade -aFR if there's a lot to do. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke