On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, John Baldwin wrote:
On Monday, January 23, 2012 4:27:26 am Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
I wanted to install src onto an existing RELEASE-9.0 box (that is maintained
using freebsd-update), since I needed to build lsof. I then used sysintall as
follows:
* Media: ftp.freebsd.org
* Distribution: custom -> src -> sys/base/include/lib
Error message was then:
| Unable to transfer the sbase distribution from ?
? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. ?
? ?
? Do you want to try to retrieve it again? |
I see some distributions here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/9.0-RELEASE/ but I
can't see anything called sbase.txz in my searching.
This might work fine from CD, but this server is in the colo without an easy
way for me to insert a CD.
You can't use sysinstall on 9.0 since the distribution format changed. I
don't think there is a way to install them via bsdinstall post-install.
(Nathan cc'd in case there is). I think you can root around in the FTP
directory and find the source tarball and untar it on your box by hand
however.
People have been asking on the forums, too, so I wrote this to show
retrieving the source as a tar file, with csup, and with svn:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172
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