From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 2 03:21:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D207E99256B for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 03:21:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reg@dwf.com) Received: from deneb.dwf.com (70-90-202-97-Albuquerque.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.90.202.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9319026D0 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 03:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reg@dwf.com) Received: from deneb.dwf.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deneb.dwf.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t622m7Wt005103 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2015 20:48:07 -0600 Message-Id: <201507020248.t622m7Wt005103@deneb.dwf.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 10.1 to a partition. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 20:48:07 -0600 From: reg@dwf.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 03:21:45 -0000 I am trying to do something that would be trivial with Linux. Namely install FreeBSD to a partition on the disk. I have a 500GB disk, with 6 90GB partitions. I have PCBSD in the first partition, and would like to put FreeBSD in the 2nd. Now nothing I have tried will have the FreeBSD installer ask for a partition. It wants to either overwrite the 1st partition, or if I remove partitions 2-6, it will try to create a partition out of the remainder of the disk, and not allow me to reduce the size of that partiton. Am I missing something? Or is this just he way FreeBSD is? (I hope not) -- Reg.Clemens reg@dwf.com