From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 10:20:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DABCE1065677 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867BA8FC25 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483A95C28 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:33:36 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24F695C22 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:33:36 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F3E28BC.3090909@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:15:24 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F3E1E7B.7080804@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F3E1E7B.7080804@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:20:10 -0000 On 02/17/12 19:31, Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > I seem to have this problem with sysinstall, whereby I cant seem to > download the kernel source. > > I tried following this example > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-install-kernel-source-code/ > > I use "Install from an FTP server" > > The error message I get is "Unable to transfer the sbase distribution > from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org." > > Does anyone know of another way to get the kernel source. > > Cvs or svn. A quick search of previous posts to this list should provide the answer you need. Try from last month I think :)