From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 14:15:44 2004 Return-Path: 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 7175616A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:15:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D00343D3F for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:15:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tommoyer@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so30071wri for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:15:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=SF39uuAkeOWod7/KjeYZzA3ezo2JApaA3s19FnsRqDO24r4xmFnWMw7eNVlIaZExI4fUIPc7Wmc+iHZhJeN1l0xJWZcrE84GLgTlTUuhmpATxDl2HzFPpSTCHj5SMHZ7dWxNUQ1hPzH+xrfILPWzrYW/GYnHuy+vATPsJ48b4uQ= Received: by 10.54.41.50 with SMTP id o50mr59680wro; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.41.24 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:15:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1486736304111906153cab8b28@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:15:42 -0500 From: Tom Moyer To: Eric Kjeldergaard , FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <148673630411182008412a23a6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tom Moyer List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:15:44 -0000 I'm looking for an easy way to obtain all the packages/port distfiles at once and then put them on a cd so I can do that. I would like to be able to do it without having to manually fetch all the dependancies as well. On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:22:22 -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > > > I have the 5.3-RELEASE CD which I have used to install 5.3 on a laptop > > I have. I would like to add packages/ports now but have a slight > > issue. The laptop doesn't have internet access. Nor is there any > > easy way to put it on the internet. How can I go about installing > > both packages and ports on this laptop? > > > > There are many packages that came with the CDs upon release. Those > are always available to you. It seems as though you must have some > method of getting to the internet. If you acquire packages or > required distribution files for building a given port via the internet > and then put it on transferrable media (like a CD-RW, for instance) > you should be able to install them off of that media. For ports, you > get the files that the given port requires (in > /usr/ports///distinfo, IIRC) and put them in > /usr/ports/distfiles and for packages, you simply get the package and > pkg_add . > > -- > If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. >