Hi all,
Need to draw on these forums expert knowledge a little please to understand the update process on FreeBSD in a little more detail:
I want to update a FreeBSD box that is not connected to the Internet (think of it as an island). The only access to the internet is, dare I say it, via a single Windows machine which only has the ability to download files via FTP/HTTPp, followed by a CD-basedmandrollic mandraulic transfer method.
(I do accept this is not an ideal scenario, but do not want to get into a VM scenario with the Windows box as a host, unless really needed, as this brings extra overhead and complexity).
Question: Are updated src tarballs for 9.1-RELEASE even available via FTP?
I do note that ftp://ftp5.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.1-RELEASE/ contains the 9.1 release from December last year, but are the only usable methods for getting the latest RELEASE src on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html?
Or would it be simply a case of mirroring http://update.freebsd.org/ and making this available via HTTP to the relevant FreeBSD server? Would I run into issues with the pub.ssl (an X.509 certificate I presume) on a private server?
Thank you in advance for your kind wisdom,
James.
Need to draw on these forums expert knowledge a little please to understand the update process on FreeBSD in a little more detail:
I want to update a FreeBSD box that is not connected to the Internet (think of it as an island). The only access to the internet is, dare I say it, via a single Windows machine which only has the ability to download files via FTP/HTTPp, followed by a CD-based
(I do accept this is not an ideal scenario, but do not want to get into a VM scenario with the Windows box as a host, unless really needed, as this brings extra overhead and complexity).
Question: Are updated src tarballs for 9.1-RELEASE even available via FTP?
I do note that ftp://ftp5.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.1-RELEASE/ contains the 9.1 release from December last year, but are the only usable methods for getting the latest RELEASE src on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html?
Or would it be simply a case of mirroring http://update.freebsd.org/ and making this available via HTTP to the relevant FreeBSD server? Would I run into issues with the pub.ssl (an X.509 certificate I presume) on a private server?
Thank you in advance for your kind wisdom,
James.
