Best Way to Install Software without Internet Connection
mowestusa <[email protected]>
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I have an old Pentium 166 with 32 megs of ram. I would like to install NetBSD on this machine, but I'm wondering how I would go about adding programs after the install. I would like things like the following: vim, asciidoc, ncftp, bash, php, python, webserver, and other text based tools. It seems like pkgscr would not be the best without an internet connection on the computer. It also would take a while to compile on such an old machine. So I was wondering about the binary packages that are available. Can one download the whole lot and fit them on a CD and simple install from there? Are there other options that I have not considered? I'm sure this issue has come up before, but I was just wondering what the best course of action would be. The last time I tried installing NetBSD I had a computer with a DSL connection. I was trying to decide between NetBSD or Slackware, since with Slackware you get a rather complete system after the install, and you also could just download packages and install them manually along with their dependencies. Thank you for any direction or documentation you could point out to this newbie. Steve [email protected] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com