Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

Fri Mar 15 01:16:17 UTC 2013

On Mar 15, 2013 12:48 AM, <leeoliveshackelford at 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
>

You're trying to install to your windows partition, that won't work.

You need free space on the drive which implies shrinking your existing
partition.