freebsd stable - Jan 2012 - missing 9.0 installation packages

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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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.

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John Baldwin