Current way of downloading sources

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:18:41 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Before 9.0 I used to use sysinstall to download sources for several
> > distributions including kernel and libraries. However, this doesn't seem
> to
> > work anymore. Whatever source distribution I try to download I get the
> > error that it doesn't exist in the server.
> >
> > The handbook[1] still says sysinstall can be used to do the job. Is it
> > right? If so, what could be my mistake.
>
> The easiest way to get the RELEASE sources is to download
> them using FTP:
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/src.txz
>
> (and for amd64 architecture respectively)
>
> Leaving the discussion "old vs. new installer" aside, this
> method should always work.
>

Thanks for the URL. Should I file a PR about the handbook issue?


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