Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:44:19 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Emil Khatib <fenomenoxp2@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Download ports from another machine Message-ID: <20050725204419.GB30872@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <dd99923205072512004dfb9ef7@mail.gmail.com> References: <dd999232050716045262030bea@mail.gmail.com> <44u0iuzvb2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <dd99923205072214164506c007@mail.gmail.com> <447jfgm9tb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <dd99923205072512004dfb9ef7@mail.gmail.com>
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--p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:00:45PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote: > 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! Look into FreeSBIE, which is a bootable CD image distribution of FreeBSD. You can boot this on another machine, mount the hard drive and fetch your ports there. Kris --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC5U8jWry0BWjoQKURAsn8AKDe3ijnbZh16SEZ8YZVrxdrbkTEhwCglqD0 7zCTPsrTSrIi8vgP7DqnE1Y= =iq57 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K--
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