Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does

OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the list only. Most MUA nowadays provide an option to automatically

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list Actually, I had written that in a reply. I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 09:00 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Standard practice for this list is to Cc the responder and the list, because people are not required to subscribe to post. That makes sense and does explain why my last mail came through the list,

Re: OT: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 15:37 -0700, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Please Cc responses to the mailing list I know that it's tolerated by the FreeBSD lists, but for most mailing lists nowadays it's common to reply to the

Fwd: Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-17 Thread leeoliveshackelford
---BeginMessage--- On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Dear Mr. Block, Greetings. Thank you for your response to my message. Your instruction to change the name of the disk drive from ah0 to aha0 worked. I can now boot FreeBSD. The next trick will be to attempt to

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-16 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: 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

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-15 Thread leeoliveshackelford
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

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several good morning, people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread leeoliveshackelford
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

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On Mar 15, 2013 12:48 AM, leeoliveshackelf...@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

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread Bejoy Thomas
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

Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread leeoliveshackelford
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

Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-14 Thread Ben Cottrell
Lee, Are you using DOS-style or GPT partitions? I'm assuming DOS-style, and the rest of this email is only correct if that's the case, so correct me if I'm wrong. There's actually two partition tables at work here -- the big one, that lives at the start of the physical disk and divides up the