On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:00:45PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote: > On 24 Jul 2005 12:46:08 -0400, Lowell Gilbert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't top-post, please. > > > > Emil Khatib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 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? > > > > Yes, that should be no problem; just break to the loader(8) prompt and > > tell it what to use for the root and kernel. > > > > 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... > > > 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
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