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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