On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> At the FreeBSD.Org ports website, however, it says the total size of
> the tarball (tar/gzip) is 25mb. Is this a matter of compressed
> versus uncompressed? Why the discrepancy?
That's part of it, the other part is that the ports consist of a lot of
I gave the FreeBSD online Handbook a good read (of several chapters
that walked the reader through sysinstall)... One of the prompts
said to have 300mb or more of space for the ports.
At the FreeBSD.Org ports website, however, it says the total size of
the tarball (tar/gzip) is 25mb. Is this a m
