Suppose David Brownlee said:
> 
> 	Another thought... The FreeBSD people have an install setup that
> 	will install off an ftp server (plus one floppy in a PC).
> 
> 	Thi is nice, cool etc.. but I wonder if they've taken it a step
> 	further and permitted people to install binary packages from
> 	an ftp server?

I think their bsd.port.mk mechanism is better, actually.  
cd /usr/ports/shells/tcsh ; make
ftp's the source if you don't have it, patches it, and builds it.  I'd
_love_ to have this in with a collecting point for patches. 

I am moving OS's around on my disks, but will have a NetBSD back soon
to put this in if there's interest.

Ben *^)