I would suggest downloading the boot-only mini-CD image from here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.2/
and doing a minimal install after booting from that (it will allow you
to install from an FTP site, such as that one). That will take up a
whole primary partition ('slice').
During installation, partitioning is done in two stages: first, a
primary partition is created or selected to be a FreeBSD slice, then on
the next screen you can set up the partitions within that. There's a
default option for creating those partitions, which should work fine.
I'm not sure if the root directory (which includes /boot ) is
necessarily in partition 'a' of the selected slice.
If you are setting up to run on a system with Windows XP on it, the file
/boot/boot0 can be put in the Windows C:\ directory, and the NT/XP
BOOT.INI file can be edited to load that in order to boot into FreeBSD
(apparently that works if the FreeBSD partition is on the same drive -
I've done that, myself).
BTW you can also mount Linux partitions from FreeBSD; one problem, at
least in earlier versions, is that the inodes had to be 128 bytes in
size - that may have been fixed in FreeBSD 7.2, but I haven't tried that
yet (that's part of the reason I set up this test system, but I got
sidetracked on the GRUB 2 issue, when I saw the Karmic alphas had come
out and tried them!)
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