Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-18 Thread Kirill Bychkov
On Fri, November 15, 2013 13:50, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Kirill Bychkov said: I can't agree with that. You can test something not in FAQ if you are sure it will make no harm to your system. Dance with bootloaders and partition managers could lead to catastrophe if you make an error.

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 07:39:41AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:01 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I suppose I would have to install Windows first, and then OpenBSD. Does

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Marc Espie said: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 07:39:41AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:01 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I suppose I would have to install Windows first

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 07:39:41AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:01 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff said: Did you actually read that ? notice how it stops with Windows Vista/7 ? I was planning to send a diff - I dualboot OpenBSD and Windows 8.1, and all the steps to set it up are the same. The only thing to keep in mind about Windows 8+ is that it initializes graphics

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Marc Espie
I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I suppose I would have to install Windows first, and then OpenBSD. Does the OpenBSD installation include a boot manager such as GRUB? I have experience setting up dual booting

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Marc Espie said: You could point the guy at the FAQ, with caveats since the FAQ *doesn't cover his specific case*. But your way of phrasing your answer is not a polite way to put it, and it's completely unjustified ! FAQ never covers one's specific case - it covers general case and has to be

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2013 Nov 15 (Fri) at 07:01:35 +0100 (+0100), Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: :I see no way to defend OP against lack of proper research allegation. It would be nice though, if people would stop actively being dicks. -- Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is probably

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Peter Hessler said: On 2013 Nov 15 (Fri) at 07:01:35 +0100 (+0100), Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: :I see no way to defend OP against lack of proper research allegation. It would be nice though, if people would stop actively being dicks. When I only came to OpenBSD, my dislike for being

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread latincom
On Thu, November 14, 2013 10:01 pm, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Marc Espie said: You could point the guy at the FAQ, with caveats since the FAQ *doesn't cover his specific case*. But your way of phrasing your answer is not a polite way to put it, and it's completely unjustified ! FAQ never

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Kirill Bychkov
On Fri, November 15, 2013 10:01, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Marc Espie said: You could point the guy at the FAQ, with caveats since the FAQ *doesn't cover his specific case*. But your way of phrasing your answer is not a polite way to put it, and it's completely unjustified ! FAQ never

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 07:01:35AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Marc Espie said: You could point the guy at the FAQ, with caveats since the FAQ *doesn't cover his specific case*. But your way of phrasing your answer is not a polite way to put it, and it's completely unjustified !

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Paul Irofti
Oh really ? you've never managed to put an OS out of commission by trying to multiboot ? you've never had a so-called install program just reclaim all of your hard-drive ? esp. with Windows where it can be *very* tiresome and difficult to track all the pieces you need to reinstall

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Kirill Bychkov said: I can't agree with that. You can test something not in FAQ if you are sure it will make no harm to your system. Dance with bootloaders and partition managers could lead to catastrophe if you make an error. [snip] Keep in mind that potential risk boiled down to wasted

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-15 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Marc Espie said: Keep in mind that potential risk boiled down to wasted space on the hard drive, which could be easily reclaimed for OS the OP would prefer if dualboot was impossible. Oh really ? you've never managed to put an OS out of commission by trying to multiboot ? you've never

Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-14 Thread zalit
Hi I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I suppose I would have to install Windows first, and then OpenBSD. Does the OpenBSD installation include a boot manager such as GRUB? I have experience setting up dual booting with GRUB, when installing

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-14 Thread Brian McCafferty
On 2013-11-15 00:01, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I suppose I would have to install Windows first, and then OpenBSD. Does the OpenBSD installation include a boot manager such as GRUB? I have experience setting up

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-14 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 06:01:30AM +0100, za...@gmx.com wrote: I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I suppose I would have to install Windows first, and then OpenBSD. Does the OpenBSD installation include a boot manager such as GRUB? I have

Re: Dual booting OpenBSD and Windows 8.1

2013-11-14 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:01 AM, za...@gmx.com wrote: Hi I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone managed to do that? I suppose I would have to install Windows first, and then OpenBSD. Does the OpenBSD installation include a boot manager such as GRUB? I have