Re: ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:27:54PM +0100, arden wrote: is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine There isn't an iso image of the ports tree available as such. There's a split up tar-ball of the ports tree created for each release, which is what you

Re: ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
Howdy, hi all is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine The entire ports collection would not fit on a CD or even a boxful of CDs. Someone counted a little while ago and found there were more than 10,000 ports available in the system. I think

Re: ports cd

2004-06-22 Thread arden
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 15:31, Jerry McAllister wrote: Howdy, hi all is it possible to download a cd of the ports so i can use it on a standaloan machine The entire ports collection would not fit on a CD or even a boxful of CDs. Someone counted a little while ago and found there

Re: Ports/CD images?

2004-04-02 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Igor Skalski wrote: I would like to try to install FreeBSD on my home computer wchich is not connected to the Internet. In my opinion the most important aspect of using free software in such a conditions is possessing whole set of CD's containing both most important programs and source code. I

Re: Ports/CD images?

2004-04-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:17:42AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: Igor Skalski wrote: I would like to try to install FreeBSD on my home computer wchich is not connected to the Internet. In my opinion the most important aspect of using free software in such a conditions is possessing whole set

Re: Ports/CD images?

2004-03-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:28:11PM +0100, Igor Skalski wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to try to install FreeBSD on my home computer wchich is not connected to the Internet. In my opinion the most important aspect of using free software in such a conditions is possessing whole set of