New Installation

Karl Young karly at kipshouse.org
Tue Sep 5 18:31:18 UTC 2017


Polytropon(freebsd at edvax.de)@2017.09.05 20:26:42 +0200:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:17:07 +0100, John Chapman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a well used laptop that had Windows Vista on when I bought it.
> > As you know Windows no longer supports Vista and I don't see the
> > point in upgrading at great expense.
> 
> That's fully correct. There is no value in dealing with "Vista"
> anymore.
> 
> 
> 
> > Is it possible to just uninstall Windows and download FreeBSD.
> 
> It is not needed to uninstall "Windows". Basically, it's even
> technically impossible to _un_install "Windows" because it does
> not have a means to do so. ;-)
> 

We use defenstration to uninstall Windows

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defenestration

-karl


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