Re: update ports from a file

2007-09-26 Thread David Southwell
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 00:31:48 Mr Anderson wrote: > Hi Paul > . . > I know it is not the ideal, but my network > card works only for Windows. Why?? ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-po

Re: update ports from a file

2007-09-26 Thread Mr Anderson
Hi Paul First of all, In my scenario I dont have internet connection and I am doing the installations from scratch. So, I first update ports manually, and now I CAN INSTALL packages by hand. I know it is not the ideal, but my network card works only for Windows. I am not a server administrator ,

Re: update ports from a file

2007-09-25 Thread Mr Anderson
Hello Well, I could find a CD/DVD updated of FreeBSD. Well, I decided to continue manually. I download the last ports.tar.gz file. I unpacked to /usr/ports. :) Then I tried the following and message said about can't cd to systutils/portupgrade (is that fine?) #portversion cd: can't cd to /usr/por

Re: update ports from a file

2007-09-18 Thread Simon Barner
Mr Anderson wrote: > Hello > > I have been using FreeBSD in the Univ recently and quite interesting. I > decided to installed FreeBSD 6.2 in my laptop (I dont have internet > connection) and now I want to install apache and other software. So, I > downloaded ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/port

Re: update ports from a file

2007-09-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:01:37 +1000 "Mr Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have been using FreeBSD in the Univ recently and quite interesting. > I decided to installed FreeBSD 6.2 in my laptop (I dont have internet > connection) and now I want to install apache and other software.

re: update ports from a file

2007-09-18 Thread James
Hi Anderson, you can update your ports tree by gunzipping and untarring the ports.tar.gzfile -- I believe it extracts itself to the correct place. And deleting everything beforehand would be a smart move, yes. However, this might not be appropriate for you as you have no internet connection. Port

update ports from a file

2007-09-17 Thread Mr Anderson
Hello I have been using FreeBSD in the Univ recently and quite interesting. I decided to installed FreeBSD 6.2 in my laptop (I dont have internet connection) and now I want to install apache and other software. So, I downloaded ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz and copy t