From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 4 20:34:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA16020 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA16013 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA06992; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:34:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: -=mFp=- cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing ports. In-Reply-To: <33E65A43.43D5429@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, -=mFp=- wrote: > Is there a way of installing ports without a internet or ftp connection. > I have some front ends and Netscape and my Windoze harddrive and would > like to install them. Is there a way. Sure. You need to figure out which distfile(s) the port is looking for, copy them into /usr/ports/distfiles, then fire off the port. You can find out what it wants by running the port and watching it fail, or look at the port Makefile. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo