From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 5 04:25:45 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABF7D5DEAB for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 04:25:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [IPv6:2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "holgerdanske.com", Issuer "holgerdanske.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C116171 for ; Fri, 5 May 2017 04:25:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from 99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:TLSv1.2:Kx=ECDH:Au=RSA:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Thu, 4 May 2017 21:25:43 -0700 Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on ZFS with Windows To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <95a98378-09c7-486c-6b95-4f0239430d7d@icerats.de> From: David Christensen Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 21:26:57 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <95a98378-09c7-486c-6b95-4f0239430d7d@icerats.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 04:25:45 -0000 On 05/04/2017 11:55 AM, Christian Baer wrote: > I'd like to install FreeBSD on a machine that already runs Windows in a > dual-boot setup. This works find when using UFS for /, /var and /usr. > However, I'd like to install FreeBSD on ZFS. Well, I could live with a > separate / with UFS and the rest being on ZFS. > > The BSD installer doesn't offer this functionality and I have never done > this before, so I'd like a guideline to how this is done. The handbook > does state that I could accomplish this via the shell, but does not say > how this is done. > > Is there a useful howto out there on how to accomplish the task at hand > or is this generally a bad idea? > > Note: The medium I'd like to install FreeBSD on is an SSD. I hate dual-boot. For desktop/ server machines, I use mobile docks and one drive per operating system. For laptops, I either swap the system drive, figure out how to use a USB flash drive as the system drive, or use virtualization. David