sysinstall cant seem to download the kernel source.

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Brent Clark wrote:

> 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.

Depends on the version of FreeBSD.  For 9,
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172