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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 10.1 to a partition.
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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.