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  Hi,

  Currently I have a FreeBSD v2.1 system and I am trying to port INN news
  to it. When I installed FreeBSD v.21, I chose "Average User - Binaries
  and doc but no sources" installation to save my hard disk space (small
  hard disk). The installation seemed OK because I could boot, execute all
  the UNIX command and add packages (using pkg_add and pkg_delete command).
  Right now I am facing a problem. According to the
  "http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook28.html" page, I have to have
  /usr/ports/distfiles file to allow me porting INN news from either CD-ROM
  or internet. I checked my system and the system does not have
  /usr/ports/distfiles. Can you tell me where I can get this file (I
  checked ftp.freebsd.org and I could not find the directory) or did I
  install FreeBSD wrong? Thanks in advance.

  Ruiyuan Jiang
  System Administrator
  Advantage kbs
  rjiang@akbs.com
  (908) 287-2236