Installation Question 5.3-RELEASE

[Tom Moyer]

I'm looking for an easy way to obtain all the packages/port distfiles
at once and then put them on a cd so I can do that.  I would like to
be able to do it without having to manually fetch all the dependancies
as well.


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:22:22 -0600, Eric Kjeldergaard
<kjelderg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I have the 5.3-RELEASE CD which I have used to install 5.3 on a laptop
> > I have.  I would like to add packages/ports now but have a slight
> > issue.  The laptop doesn't have internet access.  Nor is there any
> > easy way to put it on the internet.  How can I go about installing
> > both packages and ports on this laptop?
> >
> 
> There are many packages that came with the CDs upon release.  Those
> are always available to you.  It seems as though you must have some
> method of getting to the internet.  If you acquire packages or
> required distribution files for building a given port via the internet
> and then put it on transferrable media (like a CD-RW, for instance)
> you should be able to install them off of that media.  For ports, you
> get the files that the given port requires (in
> /usr/ports/<portcategory>/<portname>/distinfo, IIRC) and put them in
> /usr/ports/distfiles and for packages, you simply get the package and
> pkg_add <packageFile>.
> 
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