From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 16 03:11:32 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12128B32 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net) Received: from rc3.surewest.net (rc3.surewest.net [66.60.130.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA23CD22 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp3.surewest.net ([66.60.130.145]) by rc3.surewest.net ({89e988b2-2a53-469e-91f0-3e9924092bec}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20130316031124895 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:11:24 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from ms5.mc.surewest.net (hansolo.surewest.net [64.30.98.104]) by smtp3.surewest.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60E289625 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ms5.mc.surewest.net [192.168.60.104]) by ms5.mc.surewest.net (MOS 4.1.10-GA) with HTTP/1.1 id DEO31912 (AUTH leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net); Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Subject: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mirapoint Webmail Direct 4.1.10-GA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20130315201124.DEO31912@ms5.mc.surewest.net> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) X-MAG-OUTBOUND: surewest.redcondor.net@66.60.130.145/32 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:11:32 -0000 Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the boot loader. The handbook says to run this command, "boot0cfg -B ad0". When I run this command, I get the following error message: "Unable to get providername for ad0". What is a provider name? How do I determine the provider name for ad0? How do I communicate that information to boot0cfg? I know that this problem has something to do with the "geom" command, but the "man geom" goes on for many pages. While I think the answer may be in there somewhere, I could not find it. Any and all comments will be appreciated. Sincerely, Newby Lee