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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 t
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 sa
Hi,
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT)
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 installation of the
this is good to
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
F
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 p
On Mar 15, 2013 12:48 AM, wrote:
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> 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 st
