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Dru Lavigne's book "BSD Hacks" has a hack called "Build a Port Without the Ports Tree" 
which might be useful to you... and -- lucky you -- it's one of the sample hacks on 
O'Reilly's site:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/chapter/hack82.pdf

Ben


Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ramiro Aceves writes:
> 
> 
>>If you have 2 GB remaining in /usr, install the ports tree, it will eat
>>about 350 MB.
> 
> 
> I tried it.  The system generates so many SCSI errors that it panics
> before the entire tree is installed.
>