Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:41:42 +0930 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about installing ports from CD Message-ID: <200208110212.g7B2CSL42796@tierzero.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20020810111112.GG90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <4.2.0.58.20020810013444.0096eba0@pop.netzero.net> <20020810111112.GG90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 20:41, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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. Understood. But I want to use my FBSD CDs to upgrade (eg KDE 2.2.2 to 3). Pkg_update isn't explicit about what (if anything) needs to be deleted prior to updating. Can you advise (or tell me where best to look)? Thanks. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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