Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:45 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: missing 9.0 installation packages Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201251423110.9460@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <201201251148.33304.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4F1D27FE.6040604@ish.com.au> <201201251148.33304.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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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