You should now have the tools you need to get around and
      edit files, so you can get everything up and running.  There is
      a great deal of information in the FreeBSD handbook (which is
      probably on your hard drive) and FreeBSD's web site.  A
      wide variety of packages and ports are on the CDROM as well as
      the web site.  The handbook tells you more about how to use them
      (get the package if it exists, with pkg_add
      /cdrom/packages/All/,
      where packagenamepackagename is the filename of
      the package).  The CDROM has lists of the packages and ports
      with brief descriptions in
      cdrom/packages/index,
      cdrom/packages/index.txt, and
      cdrom/ports/index, with fuller descriptions
      in /cdrom/ports/*/*/pkg/DESCR, where the
      *s represent subdirectories of kinds of
      programs and program names respectively.
If you find the handbook too sophisticated (what with
      lndir and all) on installing ports from the
      CDROM, here is what usually works:
Find the port you want, say kermit.
      There will be a directory for it on the CDROM.  Copy the
      subdirectory to /usr/local (a good place
      for software you add that should be available to all users)
      with:
#cp -R /cdrom/ports/comm/kermit /usr/local
This should result in a
      /usr/local/kermit subdirectory that has all
      the files that the kermit subdirectory on the
      CDROM has.
Next, create the directory
      /usr/ports/distfiles if it does not already
      exist using mkdir.  Now check
      /cdrom/ports/distfiles for a file with a
      name that indicates it is the port you want.  Copy that file to
      /usr/ports/distfiles; in recent versions
      you can skip this step, as FreeBSD will do it for you.  In the
      case of kermit, there is no distfile.
Then cd to the subdirectory of
      /usr/local/kermit that has the file
      Makefile.  Type
#make all install
During this process the port will FTP to get any compressed
      files it needs that it did not find on the CDROM or in
      /usr/ports/distfiles.  If you do not have
      your network running yet and there was no file for the port in
      /cdrom/ports/distfiles, you will have to
      get the distfile using another machine and copy it to
      /usr/ports/distfiles.
      Read Makefile (with
      cat or more or
      view) to find out where to go (the master
      distribution site) to get the file and what its name is.
      (Use binary file transfers!)
      Then go back to /usr/local/kermit, find the
      directory with Makefile, and type
      make all install.
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