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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:54:01 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.
Message-ID:  <20120217105401.3c28a3af@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F3E1E7B.7080804@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0200
Brent Clark wrote:

> 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.

Get it with csup and be sure to set the correct tag in your supfile
(probably RELENG_9_0, for the 9.0 security branch or RELENG_9 for the
stable development branch). In the long term it's simplest and safest to
start from an empty src directory anyway.



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