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Thread-Topic: Is it possible to install FreeBSD on a single MBR slice with ZFS ? 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What I meant was "'That appears to be my impressio= n too : it simply is not possible to install FreeBSD+ZFS on an MBR slice". Of course, I have been installing FreeBSD+UFS on a single slice from my ver= y first days in 2002 : - )