missing 9.0 installation packages

[John Baldwin]

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.

-- 
John Baldwin