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
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, <leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net> <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 > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
