Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:48:33 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Cc: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: missing 9.0 installation packages Message-ID: <201201251148.33304.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4F1D27FE.6040604@ish.com.au> References: <4F1D27FE.6040604@ish.com.au>
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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. -- John Baldwin
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