From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 21:18:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CEB884D6 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BDEDF36 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-83.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id sA4LIEfx031164 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 15:18:14 -0600 Message-ID: <5459440D.8020200@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:24:29 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD References: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> In-Reply-To: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:18:16 -0000 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.