missing 9.0 installation packages
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 25 17:09:41 UTC 2012
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
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