Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:09:00 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader Message-ID: <200706282009.00938.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <758783.52560.qm@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <758783.52560.qm@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > --- Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> ha scritto: > ... > > > > > I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and > > without having to do anything special - That is on CURRENT > > > > > Hmm... > > Installation order is important, perhaps you already had FreeBSD before > installing Vista? In my case Vista Premium came preinstalled, there was also a > FAT partition (with diagnostic stuff) and an NTFS for rescue purposes. > No - The originally came with XP - I nuked that and installed FreeBSD - However I did nuke the XP totally before upgrading to Vista - It does overwrite the FreeBSD MBR - I just rebooted using a CD and added the mbr again > Of course getting the new computer without Vista was not really an option :(, > but MS went too far this time, they removed postcript type1 font support and > they crippled OpenGL enough that major CAD packages don't work easily or have > something like 85% performance penalty. > > Pedro. > > > ___________________________________ > L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html >
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