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 covers one's specific case - it covers general case and has to > be applied to the situation. Windows 7 instructions work for Windows 8, > and before asking on mailinglist OP should have tried it. If it failed, > his query should have been:
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. So I think OP is quite right for asking questions than blindly using algorithm for multibooting with Win7. We all know, than M$ always inventing new traps for alternative OS. And their boot process organization is one of that traps. My 0.05RUR > > I tried to set up dualbooting Windows 8.1 with OpenBSD following the > advice for Windows 7 from FAQ 4.9, but at the step *N* (command *cmd*) > it failed. Did anyone have success with setting up Windows 8 and > OpenBSD to play together in dualboot? > > Instead we got a general query *before* any action. > > 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. > > I see no way to defend OP against lack of proper research allegation.
