Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:24:29 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD Message-ID: <5459440D.8020200@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> References: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala>
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On 11/04/14 14:55, Christian Baer wrote: > Good evening, everyone! > > A few days ago I bought myself a new computer - at long last! :-) I have been > working with FreeBSD for quite a while now, but only ever on servers, never on > a desktop-computer or a workstation. This time I took special care to make > sure FreeBSD would run on all the hardware. Only catch: The case has no room > for a FreeBSD badge. :-) > > I guess I was a little over-enthusiastic and installed FreeBSD right away. As > you can see, I managed to get it running, including X, nvdidia-driver and > sound. ;-) > > At times, I still like gaming and although I do not spend most of my computer > time doing that, I did leave some room on my SSD for Windows. To be exact, I > created three primary partitions (MBR style, Win7 is a pain with UEFI), one > 100MB, one ~120GB (these two are for Windows) and one ~118GB for FreeBSD. > > My problem is that should I install Windows now, FreeBSD won't boot anymore, > because Windows will replace the boot loader. If there is any documentation > about using FreeBSD and Windows on one machine, it usually assumes that > Windows was installed first. > > Does anybody know of some documentation or howto to install these two OSs the > other way around? As you can imagine, I don't really fancy the idea of > starting from scratch here. > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > Best regards, > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Run winders as a VM ? $0.02, no more, no less ..... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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