From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 23:05:41 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAE2880D for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:05:41 +0000 (UTC) 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 6FC201065 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from deneb.dwf.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deneb.dwf.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t3NMZVmY021704 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:35:32 -0600 Message-Id: <201504232235.t3NMZVmY021704@deneb.dwf.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install to a Partition problems. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:35:31 -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, 23 Apr 2015 23:05:41 -0000 I have been trying to install FreeBSD to the 2nd partition of my disk for several weeks now, with no luck. Here is the backstory. I have a 500GB disk, partitioned into 5 100GB partitions. I have PCBSD in the first partition. I had tried to put PCBSD in the 2nd partition an save whatever was in the first, but finally gave up. Now I would like to install FreeBSD into the 2nd partition and am having the same problems. The documentation (the way I read it) would imply this is possible, but FreeBSD seems to want to overwrite the PCBSD in the first partition. So, what am I missing? What do I have to do to get the new installation in the 2nd partition. -- Reg.Clemens reg@dwf.com