From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 09:26:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AEE16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:26:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB47443D53 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:26:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from freesurf.fr (arlette.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.12]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id E7E022A7021; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:26:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.98.178.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ogautherot) by arlette.freesurf.fr with HTTP; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:26:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19350.194.98.178.34.1101979599.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:26:39 +0100 (CET) From: "Olivier Gautherot" To: X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: olivier@gautherot.net List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:26:41 -0000 Hi Graham! > Does anyone have recommendations for downloading a ports collection - > probably via windows machine and burning to CDROM? > My HD is small and runs out of nodes when the Ports collection is > installed - but what about downloading and making my CD - will I need > to save as ISO image? File format issues? Indexing issues? If you're running out of space with the pure ports collection, I would recommend to add a new disk in your machine. The ports tree weighs in the order of 50MB (ports.tar.gz is a ~25MB archive) but, in addition, you need space to download the individual archives (for instance, the mozilla archive requires over 30MB on its own), compile and install. The ports tree is not sufficient on its own to install new apps. By the way, if you have a separate partition that you can use for this, you can create a soft link called /usr/ports and redirect it to the other disk (try to stick to ufs or possibly ext2fs for the target file system; FAT32 did a miserable job for me so I gave up). Hope it helps Olivier