Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:49:40 +0800 From: Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd without internet connection Message-ID: <403F12B4.3020007@icare.com.hk> In-Reply-To: <403F07E5.2050201@daleco.biz> References: <403F0368.5020700@cpea.ro> <403F07E5.2050201@daleco.biz>
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Hi Kevin, I have FreeBSD 5.2 running a slow PC for test purpose. Kindly advise; 1) What steps and commands shall I apply to update/upgrade it from Internet. I am running 3M broadband. 2) Would it upgrade from source? I am a little bid nervous if it is. Because it will take lenghthy time to complete. I have had bitter experience in the past to upgrade a Gentoo box from Intenet TIA B.R. Stephen > Razvan Pop wrote: > >> hello guys, >> >> i'm using freebsd and because i liked it i installed it at home >> too. Problem is i don't have internet at home. When i'm trying to >> install a package it wants to go online. Any ideas how i could >> install packages off-line? >> > > Burn the packages to a CD at work? > > Or, use the ports system, and grab the > source tarballs at work, burn them, and > take them home. Put them in /usr/ports/distfiles, > cd /usr/ports/somedir/mynextport, type "make > install clean" .... > > Try installing portupgrade (/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade) > on the work machine. You could then do "portupgrade -F" > to fetch the source (recursively) for ports on your > home machine, or "-FP" to fetch packages.... > > Lastly, the FreeBSD Mall (and some other vendors) have > multiple CD sets that include distfiles for many major > packages and their dependencies.... > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P.
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