Bart Smaalders wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> * Pratap (pratap.babar at gmail.com) wrote: >>> Hello , >>> I have installed the Open Solaris system on my machine and now want to >>> install the add on packages from the Open Solaris repository. >>> I dont have the internet connection at my machine so unable to get >>> that packages from the repository. >>> Is there any way , by which I can download these packages and then >>> install it on my machine. >> >> No, there is no way to download the packages if you don't have an >> internet connection. There is no 'on-disk' format for IPS packages, >> yet. >> > > Downloading packages would seem to require an internet connection > as well, so unless the O.P. just has no working networking on > his machine, I don't understand the problem.
one imaginable scenario would be downloading them onto machine A, transferring them onto eg. a USB stick and then putting that onto machine B and installing them there. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
