Brute force, heavy hammer approach... for i386: fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.2-RELEASE/base.txz tar -xf -C / base.txz for amd64: fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/9.2-RELEASE/base.txz tar -xf -C / base.txz