Install Tips for Newbie with FreeBSD 10

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Nathan you are helpful, prompt, and appreciated.

GPT allows the hard disk to boot other systems. They have their own
BIOS/firmware needs. Also, I've dealt with APM on *nix, and it's too
much pain and suffering. Never mind Windows or end users. Newer Macs use
GPT too.

I suppose with $HOME and /tmp and caches in RAM, I could install BSD
wholesale to the 12 GB flash stick, though upgrades would be an all-day
chore given the awful writing speed and compilation.

I had the impression ZFS support was more mature? It sounds like much in
BSD still doesn't quite work with ZFS, if the fs itself works fine.
Almost to a point of best avoided for exotic setups like mine on odd
CPUs like mine?

Do you have tips for UFS on the flash stick? I know exactly what to do
using ext4 on Linux, but not really with UFS. Matter of fact, for ext4 I
do e.g.

mkfs.ext4 -v -t ext4 -b 2048 -i 16384 -I 128 -m 1 -O ^has_journal -L
MyDiskName  /dev/sdxN

with /etc/mke2fs.conf

features = extent,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize
auto_64-bit_support = 1

Thanks

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