From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 22:34:30 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 77F03B71 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51855B24 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 22:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 8A9C3CB8C9B; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:34:29 -0600 (CST) Received: from 128.135.70.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:34:29 -0600 (CST) 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> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:34:29 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal 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 22:34:30 -0000 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++