Makes sense (unfortunately :-/ ). I will be prepared, thks ;-) Another (offtopic) question: anyone knows if Windows 8 can be installed so far on the disk? (XP for example can't handle large disks) I would really hate to have to repartition because of Windows... I will only use it eventually for gaming.
Regards, Andre On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 22 November 2013, Andre Costa sent: > > I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk: > > > > - 1M BIOS boot partition > > - 500M Linux boot partition > > - 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19) > > - 200G unused space > > > > I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows > > if this will mess up with my current boot manager? Can Windows 8 > > coexist with GRUB? > > Windows installations have always messed with bootloaders to set things > up for itself, and nothing else. So I wouldn't expect any newer > versions of Windows to be any different. Be prepared to redo your > bootloader, for dual-booting, post Windows installation. > > The only time I've seen Windows installations acknowledge prior installs > and give you a boot choice has been when installing some versions of > Windows with a another version of Windows. Microsoft only cares about > Microsoft. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not > a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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