From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 19:09:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B34C16A468 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:09:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: from smtp810.mail.ird.yahoo.com (smtp810.mail.ird.yahoo.com [217.146.188.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85AD913C44B for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:09:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com) Received: (qmail 57323 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2007 19:09:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=btinternet.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=g41i0WvLYhFnSwR0HMSp2ChNMOWDP4LPNYogk+lZdd16Z/FiyehGWIoO9DMqe4B822e/mZ8v0v31z3pe1GfwBqiZEM2jUBJUkIkl3q/oCydLtd18L6BXwB7EwMLfgjDtMnlCgomx61bamXwfM2e2KWfkRWeMD37DlC4DoL8SBCw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO w2fzz0vc03.aah-go-on.com) (thomas.sparrevohn@btinternet.com@81.156.175.229 with login) by smtp810.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jun 2007 19:09:01 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: vxBbtw0VM1nZLr8WkGKa3wLAM4v1gPt1TMOkr88y5VDCySl_Yyb0ZAQrbYRrWuUEYGSccyHl7ZZQHQstWtuL6xqpu2vX14jmG5yYVPm_pvSYEAHSYvKVLN2ifWw- From: Thomas Sparrevohn To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:09:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <758783.52560.qm@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <758783.52560.qm@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706282009.00938.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:09:04 -0000 On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > --- Thomas Sparrevohn 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 >