missing 9.0 installation packages

Aristedes Maniatis ari at ish.com.au
Mon Jan 23 09:27:32 UTC 2012


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.



Cheers
Ari





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