Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:34:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD Message-ID: <52248.128.135.70.2.1415140469.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20141104230709.44c54a2a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala> <20141104223724.658347f2.freebsd@edvax.de> <59062.128.135.70.2.1415137788.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20141104230709.44c54a2a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, November 4, 2014 4:07 pm, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 15:49:48 -0600 (CST), Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> 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. > > This is correct, I just didn't want to express it > that directly. Keep in mind that MICROS~1 invented > the PC, the Internet, the mouse, and the only OS > that exists is "Windows", so... you need additional > tools to repair what the "Windows" installer damaged. > Luckily, FreeBSD provides such tools natively (no > need to buy a 3rd party program). :-) > The only thing I'm always holding myself from saying is that they (M$) implemented GUI ideas of... as I don't know whether it is of Xwindow system or of IBM's OS/2... On the same funny note: M$ Windows is the only OS I know whose vendor explicitly tells you that it is not safe to run without 3rd party software (antivirus ;-) Someone suggested to run it in VM. I would add: or on somebody's else machine... Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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