Ports not wotking

[Martin Olivier]

Hi  downloaded the freebsd 5.0 miniinstall over the weekend. cd boots up fine loads all  files had a look at installing ports that are availbe gave me an error could not find index. booted in windows checked the cd everthing was  fine  had index and index5.h file in ports dir also had the ports.tgzand some other  basic files. using winrar i extracted ports.tgz  to make sure the file is  not corrupt but file was fine. Fed-up  i tried to write index  index5.h  .cvsignore  and the rest of the files  expect ports.tgz to  each dir.
 
Freebsd  Installer  still could find the index file.????? 
 
Is there any other way of installing the ports without using the installer..???
 
thanx
 

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