I went to install 11.1 yesterday

[scratch65535 at att.net]

[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.
>> 
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>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.