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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 15:49:48 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD
From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On Tue, November 4, 2014 3:37 pm, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:55:11 +0100, Christian Baer wrote:
>
>> 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. :-)
>

No, I would put it differently. Because FreeBSD (or Linux) know that other
systems exist, whereas M$ (Windows) prefers not to know about existence of
other OSes.

Valeri

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