I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I have never experienced installing applications offline.
My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port collection ) on a machine that's not connected to the internet?
Possible? Of course. Fun? Not exactly.
Thing is, FreeBSD is designed to be connected to a network. Things are so easy that I constantly amaze people with installing all sorts of software just by typing a few words.
Once you disconnect from the network, you have to do all of the dependency checking, downloading, transferring, building, etc manually. It won't be fun.
"make fetch-recursive", then burn /usr/ports/distfiles (or all of /usr/ports, for that matter, if you just want to "make install" without waiting to recompile) to a CD-ROM.
Then again, there's no reason why the OP couldn't build out a system that was connected to the Internet as they please, back that up, and then restore to the offline system.
-- -Chuck
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