Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:11:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about installing ports from CD Message-ID: <20020810111112.GG90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020810013444.0096eba0@pop.netzero.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20020810013444.0096eba0@pop.netzero.net>
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:38:23AM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote:
> Hi all. I have all 4 of the Freebsd install CD's that you can
> download from the website and I was wondering. Obviously you
> install the OS from the first cd. But can I somehow force the
> computer to install my ports from one of the CD's instead of the
> internet?
Disks 3 and 4 of the 4 CD set consist of as complete a set of packages
as possible -- everything from the ports tree that it is legal to
redistribute pre-compiled.
You should be able to use pkg_add to install by mounting the CD on,
say, /cdrom and setting the environment variable 'PKG_PATH' to /cdrom.
Of course, you lose some flexibility with being able to set compile
time options on ports and general fiddling about with the source code,
but that's the price of not having connectivity.
Cheers,
Matthew
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