Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:56:42 +0530 From: Bejoy Thomas <bejoygthomas@yahoo.com> To: <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive Message-ID: <021E2D93-E6E2-4C30-9728-845F2EDE31FB@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20130314164436.DEM37662@ms5.mc.surewest.net> References: <20130314164436.DEM37662@ms5.mc.surewest.net>
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Hi Lee, One option to have a FreeBSD system on winxp, without any partitioning = to the existing hard disk, is to have freebsd as a vm on virtualbox. For = having a dual boot system you would need to partition the existing disk = . If you have a second had disk you could select it and let FreeBSD = partition it with the default configuration using "Entire Disk" . The = FreeBSD handbook should help you=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#windows-= coexist Bejoy Thomas On 15-Mar-2013, at 5:14 AM, <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> = <leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net> wrote: > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. I am attempting to install = FreeBSD 9.1 on a dual-boot configuration with Windows XP. I am using = bsdinstall. I do not wish for the partition table to be changed. How = do I instruct bsdinstall to skip the re-partitioning step? It gives an = error message that it cannot write a certain file because the medium is = write-only. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Yours truly, Newby = Lee >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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