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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 21:04:07 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Daisuke Toriumi <toriud@emf.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting distfiles via CDROM
Message-ID:  <15017.39335.455753.3533@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <32388043@toto.iv>

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Daisuke Toriumi <toriud@emf.net> types:
> I bought 4 set CD rom of FreeBSD4.2.
> But there are no distfiles (/usr/ports/distfiles).
> I would like to use java in FreeBSD and it seems necerssary to
> have distfiles, and takes forever to download from site.
> 
> I wonder distfiles are available in CDROM.

Unfortunately, they've disappeared from the FreeBSD release disks, and
yes, I miss them too.

If you're trying to install the Sun java vm, you might check to see if
you can order the distfile on CDROM from them.

	<mike
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