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cc: Tadimeti Keshav <keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: download of all ports
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Tadimeti Keshav wrote:

>Hi all
>I use a dial-up connection to connect to the internet.
>Thus it is painful to install via ports. Has anyone
>down loaded the entire PORTS tree and would like to
>distribute it via CD-ROM? I use FreeBSD 5.1. I am in
>Singapore.
>
>Alternatively, does any one know of a web based FTP
>site? web2ftp and net2ftp timeout when I open the
>distfiles page.
>
>Thanks in advance...
>Tk
>

Why not install it from CD and use cvsup to get it up to date?