Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:37:24 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Christian Baer <cb@icerats.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD Message-ID: <20141104223724.658347f2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> References: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala>
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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, ...
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