large disk no network

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Apr 2 13:04:02 PST 2003


On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:40:51PM -0600, Brian Henning wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I would like to install bsd onto a machine with a large disk and no network. the
> question i have is can i install items from source if i have all the cds? Do the
> cds have both the packages and the src on them? I was thinking i could just copy
> each cd to /usr/local/cdx/.

The CDs have most of the packages and the source to FreeBSD, but not
the source to the packages.  Even with 4 CDs there's just not enough
space even to fit the entire package collection any more.

Kris
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