From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 20:44:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A9E4016A41F for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:44:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3601343D46 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:44:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j6PKiNNV024006 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:44:23 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (fields.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.11]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j6PKiN6P015938; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:44:23 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B78D751455; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:44:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:44:19 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Emil Khatib Message-ID: <20050725204419.GB30872@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44u0iuzvb2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <447jfgm9tb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Download ports from another machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:44:24 -0000 --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:00:45PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote: > On 24 Jul 2005 12:46:08 -0400, Lowell Gilbert > wrote: > > Don't top-post, please. > >=20 > > Emil Khatib writes: > >=20 > > > Well, I just had an idea, as make fetch-recursive-list is unusable in > > > windows (unless I make a script or program to read it or I download > > > manually each of the packages), I would like to be able to boot a > > > FreeBSD system installed on removable media. I have a removable HD but > > > I can't boot from it... Is there anyway I could boot the system from a > > > floppy using a partition in the removable drive as root? > >=20 > > Yes, that should be no problem; just break to the loader(8) prompt and > > tell it what to use for the root and kernel. > >=20 > > But I really don't understand the problem; you should be able to take > > the *output* of fetch-recursive-list to another system quite easily. > > Use a floppy to hold the text, if you want... > >=20 > well the problem is that what I want is an automated download (I mean, > I don't want to download packages one by one). As far as I've seen the > output of fetch-recursive-list gives me no possibility to do an > automatic download. Anyway I'll tro out the loader prompt. Thanks for > you help! Look into FreeSBIE, which is a bootable CD image distribution of FreeBSD. You can boot this on another machine, mount the hard drive and fetch your ports there. Kris --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC5U8jWry0BWjoQKURAsn8AKDe3ijnbZh16SEZ8YZVrxdrbkTEhwCglqD0 7zCTPsrTSrIi8vgP7DqnE1Y= =iq57 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K--