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From: Dave Burns <d.burns@ieee.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: can't find ports.inf
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 15:35:40 -0400
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I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2 from FTP.  The FreeBSD computer is
looking for ports.inf but cannot find it, since there is no such file. 

any thoughts

TIA

Dave