From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 4 18:06:23 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 1CE5816A4E5 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:06:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: from matrix.teledomenet.gr (dns1.teledomenet.gr [213.142.128.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7778C43D53 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:06:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: from iris ([192.168.1.71]) by matrix.teledomenet.gr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k64I6IEY007266; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0300 From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:03:43 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <000801c69f8b$0e73abd0$0501a8c0@desky64> In-Reply-To: <000801c69f8b$0e73abd0$0501a8c0@desky64> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607042103.44181.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: Raymond Owens 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 18:06:23 -0000 On Tuesday 04 July 2006 19:58, 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 must use one of methods described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html extract: The primary services we offer are Anonymous CVS, CVSup, and CTM. Once you have the source, you can use any medium* available to get it to the system in question. So, you can update world without internet access. *) that is any medium providing unix file system characteristics, that is rock ridge and iso9660, raw tar and friends, tar and friends on iso9660, a file-backed UFS on iso9660 and others. But, you have to create the CD with a Unix-like OS. Also, from time to time snapshots of stable become available in CD images. HTH, Nikos