BSD Help, Slices and Partitions

[Mr.Macdonald]

I am trying out FreeBSD on my home server. Very ... Interesting, one question I have is about partitioning and slicing and the bootloader.

• First, what is the differance between a slice and a partition?
• Whats with the FreeBSD filesystem, how does that rank?
• Can I slice the disk into FreeBSD filesystems and then partition one to have swap?
• Can I have a /boot partition, does BSD install its kernel their?
• How likely am I, an experienced linux guy, to get FreeBSD to boot first try (and work)? And what do I do if it doesn't boot?

[zvacet]

It is not exactly Ubuntu question but I think you will find this helpful.

P.S. If you really run Feisty it is time to upgrade to some supported version,because Feisty is not supported anymore.