I went to install 11.1 yesterday

[Manish Jain]

On 08/20/17 21:53, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
> [Default] On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:09:13 +0000, Manish Jain
> <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
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>> On 08/20/17 19:57, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
>>> That's quite interesting!  What led me to believe it is that,
>>> after installing windows, which required creating and formatting
>>> an MBR partition, I tried to install 11.1 on the rest of the
>>> disc.  The first choice I was given was whole disc or partition.
>>> I chose partition, of course.  Whereupon it told me that MBR
>>> isn't supported, and that I could either permit it to consume the
>>> whole disc (for GPT, though it didn't actually say that), or back
>>> up and choose differently.  Functionally, the only choices on
>>> offer were whole disc or quit.  I quit.
>>>
>>
>> Are you using UFS or ZFS for the root filesystem ?
> 
> UFS.  Not much point in choosing ZFS without copies=  as a
> precondition.  Or a spare drive for a mirror.
> 

UFS is great - always my first choice, particularly when dual-booting. 
Please try to keep as close as possible to my cheat-sheet.

If you provide commands/output, I will try to help as much as I can.

One additional tip : since you (like me) prefer MBR, run this command 
when install is finished :

boot0cfg -B /dev/ada0

I am presuming that your disk is ada0. FreeBSD's boot0 manager is one of 
the great things you will like.

Manish Jain