[Official FAQ] Corrections and follow-up questions welcome.

Download weights, container images, and Python wheels on a connected machine, transfer via approved media, and pin versions. Rehearse a fully offline install to catch hidden online calls.

Ops habits:

• Maintain a bill of materials: drivers, runtimes, models, tokenizers, docs.
• Ship periodic patch bundles instead of “temporary internet.”
• Document rollback when a model update regresses quality.

Policy/compliance often dominates the tech. Checklist templates welcome.