From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 4:11:22 2002 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 8725237B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 04:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA26643E5E for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 04:11:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7ABBIFo069160; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:11:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7ABBCpg069159; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:11:12 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:11:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about installing ports from CD Message-ID: <20020810111112.GG90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <4.2.0.58.20020810013444.0096eba0@pop.netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020810013444.0096eba0@pop.netzero.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message