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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 maintai=
ned=20
using freebsd-update), since I needed to build lsof. I then used sysintall =
as=20
follows:
>=20
> * Media: ftp.freebsd.org
> * Distribution: custom -> src -> sys/base/include/lib
>=20
> Error message was then:
>=20
> | Unable to transfer the sbase distribution from =E2=94=82
> =E2=94=82 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org.                         =E2=94=82
> =E2=94=82                                                =E2=94=82
> =E2=94=82 Do you want to try to retrieve it again?       |
>=20
>=20
> I see some distributions here:=20
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/9.0-RELEASE/  but I=
=20
can't see anything called sbase.txz in my searching.
>=20
> This might work fine from CD, but this server is in the colo without an e=
asy=20
way for me to insert a CD.

You can't use sysinstall on 9.0 since the distribution format changed.  I=20
don't think there is a way to install them via bsdinstall post-install. =20
(Nathan cc'd in case there is).  I think you can root around in the FTP=20
directory and find the source tarball and untar it on your box by hand=20
however.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin



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