how to install package from local drive?

Erich Dollansky oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Wed Aug 29 21:19:35 PDT 2007


Hi,

opik133 at students.itb.ac.id wrote:
> 
> how to install package from local hard drive.
> 
pkg_add PathToPackage

> i use this freebsd for desktop and i don't have internet connection.
> i download some package (13 GB), and i only have freebsd partition 6.5 GB
> 
Where are the packages stored?

There must be a way to access them,

If it is on a none FreeBSD partition, you will have to mount the 
partition specifying the file system with 'mount -t FileSystem' to get 
access.

Do a

man mount

To find out more.


Erich


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