freebsd without internet connection

[Stephen Liu]

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.

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.