freebsd without internet connection

[Nikolas Britton]

Stephen Liu wrote:

> 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. 

use sysinstall to do a binary upgrade

>
>
> 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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