Proper method to checkout stable?

[Rob Ballantyne]

Hi All,

  I'm doing a 'svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 src' on
another machine (OS X, because I can't get subversion installed
locally) and it's producing an error:
...
A    src/share/man/man9/vget.9
svn: In directory 'src/share/man/man9'
svn: Can't open file
'src/share/man/man9/.svn/tmp/text-base/VFS_MOUNT.9.svn-base': No such
file or directory

  Is check-out somehow dependent on being written to the correct
location on a FreeBSD machine?

  Thanks,
Rob