Edit: Necrobumps are discouraged because Linux changes fast. The eight posts before yours are older information and yours is new. That creates a discontinuity in the thread at exactly the point you made your post. Also, the original posters are often long gone or have solved their issue through other means long before you added your own post. Necrobumping bad M'kay.
]]>FreeBSD uses a different kernel so no.
Just as an aside, this does not make it not possible.
Freebsd and pcbsd can run linux in a chroot jail.
http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=41470
http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1826-linux-jails-in-pc-bsd
There just is little interest in the linux comunity to make it happen.
However, on the bsd side, a lot of work has been put in linux compatability layers since more software targets linux then bsd.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/lin … anced.html
Quoting the freebsd handbook "In effect, there is a Linux® kernel in the FreeBSD kernel. The various underlying functions that implement all of the services provided by the kernel are identical to both the FreeBSD system call table entries, and the Linux® system call table entries: file system operations, virtual memory operations, signal delivery, and System V IPC. The only difference is that FreeBSD binaries get the FreeBSD glue functions, and Linux® binaries get the Linux® glue functions."
]]>Or you could use qemu:
mu -cdrom /path/to/freebsd/iso -boot d <qemu_image>
But no, you can't get FreeBSD userland to run under Linux kernel. It could possibly work the other way around (complete Linux userland on FreeBSD kernel) as FreeBSD contains Linux emulation layer. But so far as I know, Linux doesn't have any FreeBSD emulation layer built-in.
So in short -- no.
You could perhaps set up VirtualBox to use your physical drive instead of a virtual one and install FreeBSD through that -- although I'd be very cautious doing that -- especially the partitioning part.
I think your best option is to just burn the ISO or use the bootable Flash stick image and install it the old-school way.
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