From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 18:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DA237B41E for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from REDCRITER (adsl-63-205-74-171.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.205.74.171]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id SAA02196; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:53:17 -0800 From: "Craig Riter" To: Cc: Subject: RE: INSTALL Without FTP or CD Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:53:05 -0800 Message-ID: <001801c17f93$76b52e70$ea00a8c0@na.corp.breakaway.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <62.177d79a6.294277bb@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal 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 You should be able to put the .gz or .tgz file in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. The ports will look here to see if the file has already been downloaded. I am assuming that you have the ports collection installed. One might wonder why the FreeBSD box can't talk to the Internet if you other box can. Can you set up some kind of NAT or ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) through your windows box? Craig -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of PsychoSynth@aol.com Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:51 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: INSTALL Without FTP or CD Hello everyone, I'm a newbie and was wondering how I would install a .gz or .tgz file withough internet access( on the BSD side) or CD rom. I'm able to Download files on my windows side and have a folder set up that is shared on the BSD side of my machine. Stu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message