FreeBSD "Live" CD / Couple of other questions to get started

[Johnson David]

On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:04 am, clayton rollins wrote:

> As a side note, I've only found one program that was available
> precompiled on bsd (I don't remember which one...), which makes the
> answer to this very short; they are available, but good luck finding
> them.

Some of the more "essential" ports are available as packages. These can 
be found on CDs 1, 3 and 4 of the official CD distribution. More 
current ones can also be found at 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/ (use a mirror).

David