Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:00:45 +0200 From: Emil Khatib <fenomenoxp2@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Download ports from another machine Message-ID: <dd99923205072512004dfb9ef7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <447jfgm9tb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <dd999232050716045262030bea@mail.gmail.com> <44u0iuzvb2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <dd99923205072214164506c007@mail.gmail.com> <447jfgm9tb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On 24 Jul 2005 12:46:08 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Don't top-post, please. >=20 > Emil Khatib <fenomenoxp2@gmail.com> writes: >=20 > > Well, I just had an idea, as make fetch-recursive-list is unusable in > > windows (unless I make a script or program to read it or I download > > manually each of the packages), I would like to be able to boot a > > FreeBSD system installed on removable media. I have a removable HD but > > I can't boot from it... Is there anyway I could boot the system from a > > floppy using a partition in the removable drive as root? >=20 > Yes, that should be no problem; just break to the loader(8) prompt and > tell it what to use for the root and kernel. >=20 > But I really don't understand the problem; you should be able to take > the *output* of fetch-recursive-list to another system quite easily. > Use a floppy to hold the text, if you want... >=20 well the problem is that what I want is an automated download (I mean, I don't want to download packages one by one). As far as I've seen the output of fetch-recursive-list gives me no possibility to do an automatic download. Anyway I'll tro out the loader prompt. Thanks for you help!
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