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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: John Clark <email@john.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Installing Ports from CD 
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 23:34:32 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> pkg installation was not built for going over anything but CDROM.  Just
> download the package you are interested in and run pkg_add package.tgz, or
> download the port's directory, cd into it, and type 'make' to build it and
> 'make install' to install it.  

Uh, I hate to disillusion you Doug, but the package installation tool
in sysinstall will work with any of the media types, including floppy. :)

pkg_add itself will work with files or URLs, so even it has two methods
of installation.

					Jordan