The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs

[Perry Hutchison]

> Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree    
> in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap.
 
with the caveat that, at least in my recent experience, an
up-to-date ports tree does not always play nicely with a
not-updated base install from CD.  OP might be better off
loading the ports collection from the same CD set as the
rest of the system.