I have never installed freeBSD so I am not 100% sure about this. Anyway, it looks like freeBSD useshad written an answer explaining fdisk
to deal with partitions. If that is the case, you will need to use fdisk's partition typecodes. So, if the prompt you are describingAfter a bit of research I decided it was completely wrong and deleted it. According to this page (not very clearly by the waywhich I imagine you have seen) is fdisk
, typing lfreebsd-ufs
should give you the list of available file systems (this list is truncated andindeed the emphasis is mine):correct file system type.
SoI guess you are running into problems because you have too many primary partitions. Only four primary partitions are allowed. Since you already have 2 other OSs installed, it looks likeyou probably already have the freeBSD filesystem is type a5
maximum four allowed. Try typingSo, what you need to do is delete the empty 64GB partition and recreate it as a a5
at your promptextended instead of freebsd-ufs
primary partition. I repeatwould recommend you do this through I have never tried this so proceed at your own risk, it isgparted
on Linux but you can probably whatdo it through the freeBSD installer as well.
Once you need thoughhave converted the primary 63GB partition into a extended one, you can go ahead and create other logical partitions within it and install freeBSD on one of them.