portsnap

[John Marshall]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009, 09:15 -0700, Edward Shriver wrote:
> I am attempting to load FreeBSD-7.0.? The computer I am using has no internet connection.? Could you please let me have the location and name of the file(s) that portsnap needs to do its 'extract' thing.

On a system that _does_ have Internet connectivity:
 - Do 'portsnap fetch' so that you have a current ports tree snapshot
 - Take a backup of /var/db/portsnap

On the machine you are installing:
 - Restore /var/db/portsnap from the backup
 - Do 'portsnap extract'

-- 
John Marshall
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