Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 06:01:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> Cc: reg@dwf.com, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 10.1 to a partition. Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507020555150.63109@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK%2B774mdnVLYPEU_7ub%2BaPPiP9Z8mGOtBHpkzMN-WSK3wQg@mail.gmail.com> References: <201507020248.t622m7Wt005103@deneb.dwf.com> <CAKoxK%2B774mdnVLYPEU_7ub%2BaPPiP9Z8mGOtBHpkzMN-WSK3wQg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:48 AM, <reg@dwf.com> wrote: >> >> I am trying to do something that would be trivial with >> Linux. Namely install FreeBSD to a partition on the >> disk. > > From here <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html>: > "The FreeBSD boot loader requires either a primary or GPT partition." boot0 requires a primary partition, but presumably there is a multi-boot thing like Grub already in place. FreeBSD itself does not have to be on a primary partition. The manual options for creating disk partitions in bsdinstall should allow creating or selecting the correct partitions. I don't know if the latest bsdinstall allows avoiding installing the bootcode, or just skips it if custom partitions are selected.
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