From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 19:12:52 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 2F38A37B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA70F43E3B for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from there (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g7B2CSL42796; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:42:30 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200208110212.g7B2CSL42796@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Matthew Seaman , Lord Raiden Subject: Re: Question about installing ports from CD Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:41:42 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.2.0.58.20020810013444.0096eba0@pop.netzero.net> <20020810111112.GG90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020810111112.GG90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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, 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