On 30 Jul 2008 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 226, Issue 6":
> Message: 26 > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:24:49 +0200 > From: Coert Waagmeester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: local mirrors of ports and packages? > To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Hi all! > > I am quite new to FreeBSD. I am quite a boffin on Linux though. > > What I would like to know is, how can I make local mirrors of ports and > packages? I live in South-Africa, and bandwidth is painfully slow and > expensive. > > How many data would it be in total? Hi Coert LOTS of data (-: But, there is a SA mirror or two, so you don't have to do it yourself http://freebsd.mirror.ac.za/ ftp://freebsd.mirror.ac.za ftp://ftp.za.freebsd.org/ > Thanks in advance, > Coert > > FreeBSD newbie I've been running several servers on FreeBSD since 2004 and sometimes I still feel like a newby. I run Fedora at home. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"