i got a shitty lenovo laptop for $160 that came with Windows 10, and i want to install a real OS on it. unfortunately my flash drives with FreeBSD and OpenBSD installers apparently can't mount the ntfs file system (FreeBSD sees it as /dev/msdosfs ) so I can't easily just install right to the hard drive.
what's the quickest way to get rid of this windows shit so i can install FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Gentoo/something non-shitty?
right now my first line of attack is to create a lubuntu flash drive and use that as my "live disk" to reformat this shit since my BSDs were complaining when i tried to do it the ways i thought would work... probably doing it wrong tho
> can't mount the ntfs file system For what purpose do you need to mount the old filesystem.
Just use fdisk(*bsd fdisk works different from gnu/fdisk) to write a new partition table.
Lucas Russell
it was giving me some stupid error that my USB boot disk wasn't writable when i tried to do that...? i can't find any good instructions in the (otherwise really nice) FreeBSD docs on how to do this correctly using the installer...
it seems like lubuntu is already getting rid of windows very nicely for me. stupid hack to use the ubuntu installer, but it seems to be werking.
well now i feel like a toal noob that i needed Canonical's help to get windows off my shit....
Henry Ross
>Hiren's >Gparted >DBAN Pick whatever you like, wipe the whole disk and repartition. Any recent live image would probably work too, just use gparted or fdisk.
Christian Russell
While you're in ubuntu, consider doing an mfsBSD install, kinda like gentoo chroot install but cooler.
we can give you better help there instead of just telling you how fucking retarded you are.
Blake Campbell
pull out the hdd, connect to another computer or live boot into linux and connect it as external drive, then do reformat.
Cameron Jackson
sorry for spamming my own thread, but after letting lubuntu's installer remove windows, the FreeBSD installer saw my hdd as "mcsd8" and now it seems to be installing happily.
FreeBSD devs: fucking fix this shit
Adrian Harris
* typo" "mmcsd0", not "mcsd8"
Liam Williams
Bulk eraser
Jaxson Foster
DBAN
David Turner
well, now my problem is that: >even though lubuntu had me surfing the web for a while >freeBSD apparently can't drive the wireless NIC
goddamnit. 2 years ago i would have told myself "bro, it's foolish to expect FOSS software to actually werk, so just buy a mac brah"
now i try and use FreeBSD, the "complete OS" of the computing world, and it can't run a $160 computer for me. but lubuntu can.
you know what, i'm selling out and applying for all the most closed-as-closed-can-be source SW companies
Michael Wood
Just like you can emulate windows drivers on linux, you can emulate linux drivers on *BSD >now i try and use FreeBSD, the "complete OS" of the computing world No that would be debian, netBSD or minix, but if you want a perfect "out of the box " experience, install tumbleweed.
Andrew Ward
>quickest way to wipe windows use toilet paper
Adrian Murphy
Install Gentoo
Samuel Perry
lenovo put sony in picture wew
Camden Hernandez
>FreeBSD and OpenBSD installers apparently can't mount the ntfs file system The absolute state of BSD
Jack Roberts
>apparently can't mount the ntfs file system Wut, why would you even want to
Just boot your Linux Mint installer and select 'use whole disk for linux mint'
Elijah Myers
Congrats, you have learned that BSDs are useless as desktops. Now you can install Linux.
Henry Hughes
why don't you format the OBSD installer drives as fat32 instead of ntfs? you need 10 minutes of read access on a handful of files.
Landon Gutierrez
Just wipe the whole disk.
Jonathan Johnson
Pretty sure that's an external monitor, otherwise it would be some extreme bezels for a laptop.
Dominic Sullivan
>quickest way to wipe windows
>Pick whatever you like, wipe the whole disk and repartition >reformat >Bulk eraser >DBAN >Just wipe the whole disk.
this is how retarded Jow Forums is >what is the partition table just write random shit to the partition table sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M count=1
Zachary Cook
btw, make sure to know the name of your disk, otherwise you could end up losing data from another disk...
Ryan Allen
>sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M count=1 > not sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/* bs=4M count=1 just to be sure.
Jayden Roberts
>just write random shit to the partition table
I learned how that thing works on the hard way, accidentally typed sda instead of sdb, fucked up entire drive.
Hunter Johnson
some programs can help you recover the MBR. not sure about GPT, though. also...
4MB is overkill btw, you'll also probably delete partition data if you overwrite the first 4MB. I guess 512kB/1 MB is more than enough (though that depends on the layout if your partitions)
Angel Morales
>the absolute state of Jow Forums why not just installing some linux distro and then install bsd?
Jaxon Walker
Getting rid of the partition table was the point. It's faster than wiping the whole drive and accomplishes the same purpose of getting the bsd installer to shut up about ntfs partitions.
I'd wipe the entire disk anyway, it's just best practices for used disks IMO. Gets rid of whatever shady shit the last guy might have had on it and if the disk has bad blocks you'll find out.
it's one of the few things that kept me from going balls deep. it works well for reading, not so well for writing the guy who maintained ntfs support for freebsd retired years ago
except on freebsd you wouldn't call it /dev/sda you'd call it /dev/adaX, or /dev/daX, where X can be 0,1,2,3,...
