From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 4 17:49:33 2006 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 3616816A4DA for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:49:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC97C43D45 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 17:49:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost (monrovll-cuda1-24-53-251-44.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.251.44]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:49:31 -0400 id 00056412.44AAAA2B.0000E9D8 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:49:30 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Raymond Owens" Message-Id: <20060704134930.e13d89c2.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c69f8b$0e73abd0$0501a8c0@desky64> References: <000801c69f8b$0e73abd0$0501a8c0@desky64> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation on private network 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: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:49:33 -0000 "Raymond Owens" wrote: > I have a freebsd system which is on a private network, there is no path > to the internet. I am looking for methods to update the system to a new > version level under these situations. Is there someway to synchronize the > sources by burning a CD, without being able to employ CVSsup or similar? > I see how to bring ports over manually and how to do simple kernal option > changes, my question is in regard to going from O/S version 6.0 to 6.1 > or 6.1 to 6.1 stable . Thanks. You have a number of choices: 1) You can burn your own distro CD and upgrade. There are a number of HOWTOs floating around the internet, and it seems as if the process is getting simpler with each new release. 2) You could burn a copy of the /usr/src that matches the version you want to upgrade to and then copy it from CD to the local machine and do the make build|install process. 3) We run our own cvsup server at the office. Many servers do not have a path to the Internet, but they can access our local cvsup server to do updates. The cvsup server (obviously) needs access to the Internet. The cvsup-mirror port makes this particularly easy to set up. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran There's more'n seventy little earth's spinning about the galaxy, and the meek have inherited not a one. Malcom Reynolds