The FreeBSD installer is not amongst my favourites. If you're a confirmed Slacker I suggest using FreeBSD's minimal install option and then pkg_add for all of the Xorg bits and man pages. That will give you something you're familiar with then you'll be able to carry on adding packages or building from ports.
If you're multibooting be very careful to find what your other distros think the drive geometry is and then use the "g" option in FreeBSD's disklabel step to force him to agree with their view. Else you stand a better than even chance of toasting your adjacent filesystems over time and it will be hard to figure what went wrong. You can also make your life simpler if you partition with Linux and create a partition (slice) for FreeBSD (change partition type to A5) of the size you want. The FreeBSD installer will see the partition and automagically install into it (with your approval, of course!)
Last edited by Randux; 06-13-2007 at 01:58 PM.
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