Hi!
I realise that Fink ist best and normally installed via Internet. I download the installer package, and after that use "fink" (to download and compile automatically) or "apt"/"dselect" (to download binary packages automatically). I like this, normally. Now the problem is my peculiar situation: I just bought a new Powerbook, my first OS X machine (I'm coming from FreeBSD/i386), and in August I am leaving for a more or less "uncivilized" place without any easy way to get affordable broadband internet access. During July, I will have almost no time to carefully install the Powerbook, but in that uncivilized place, I will have plenty. The consequence is: I would like to take with me on CD or harddisk everything which will be necessary to install all the tools I might need during my stay. How do I accomplish this? My idea is to wget a complete mirror of the fink distribution server and then somehow point apt-get/dselect/fink to use my CDROM or local hard disk trive for installing instead of trying to go to the Internet for this. Has anybody done this before? What do I need to get, can I split it accross multiple CD's without driving apt-get etc. crazy, where do I get it from, and how do I manipulate dselect, apt-get and fink to use those CD's, or that directory on my hard disk? My backup scenario is to now use dselect to install a reasonable subset of things (after all, I have more or less an idea of what I'll need), and get a complete FreeBSD distfiles tarball and use those sources to compile things manually in case I should later-on, without Internet access, encounter the case that I missed to install something. But of course, if it can be done easier, that would be great ... Regards, Tobias. ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
