From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 21:37:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 690A39CF for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (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 2D0001E2 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-37-193.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.37.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5458524DF7; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:37:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id sA4LbO8s002739; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:37:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:37:24 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Christian Baer Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD Message-Id: <20141104223724.658347f2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> References: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:37:33 -0000 On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:55:11 +0100, Christian Baer wrote: > 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. Depending on what games you prefer, you could try the following in order to avoid an installation of "Windows": a) run the games with wine (I'm doing this, actually) b) create a VM and run "Windows" games inside that If both do _not_ provide a sufficient environment for your games, you probably need to install it on your hard disk. > My problem is that should I install Windows now, FreeBSD won't boot anymore, > because Windows will replace the boot loader. Correct. You should therefore first install "Windows" and then FreeBSD. If you have installed FreeBSD previously, you need to boot from a live CD or USB stick and repair the damaged MBR, and also install the boot manager so you can select to boot the OS or "Windows". > If there is any documentation > about using FreeBSD and Windows on one machine, it usually assumes that > Windows was installed first. Yes, because it's less trouble. :-) > 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. Boot from a different media and repair what "Windows" has damaged. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...