Manjaro DID another Dirty Trick Today

Caught MANJARO Red Handed.

I was teying to Reinstall MANJARO on my Laptop.

It did not let me install the way I wanted.

It wanted to take over the hard disk. 

It reported that there is no hard disk to Boot.

I came across this problem with CachyOS, too.

I have already stated here MANJARO did work Mossad of Israel for a long time and have those habits ingrained in the system.

My hard was passed distributions were password protected. I knew it could not enter my System.

Besides, this is Laptop with Figure of 8 Virus haunting me for a decade or more.

Well, I removed the hard disk and Swapped it with my NUC.

It is booting OK but I cannot mount any since passwords were deliberately short because of the Figure of 8 Virus.

I am first erasing MANJARO and Install Debian GNOME to begin with.

There is a bonus, the Toshiba Hard disk 320GB and I got 500GB Hard Disk.

I am not going to mount the hard disk on the Laptop.

I am going to keep it without a hard disk.

So MANJARO can be hapoy to say No Hard Disk.

I painfully prepared this hard disk with 40 partitions. I would install the rest one by one.  Other hard disk is safely in a Christmas Biscuit Tin where I used to keep variety of CEYLON TEA bags. With this cold weather they are finishing past.

Good Bye, MANJARO and these events would be recorded in my book.

By the way, I am going to erase the extra EFI partion I had on this hard disk.

I am looking for an extra hard disk for the Laptop.

Laptop testing is over for a while.

I had a major handicap.

I did not have a magnetic screwdriver to take the Hard Disk out.

Well I had a surgical scissor with me and it came handy with a tiny forceps.

Well I used to do tiny sutures in neonates and that patience still pay dividends.

Do not panic in a crisis

Well I got AbiWord, Gparted and USB formatter installed Laptop Hard Disk over NUC.

I did panic and downloaded Gparted and copy of Partition Magic 6 download in a hurry. Both did not boot from a USB.

Having a Mini Nuc is handy in a crisis situation.

Having additional PC or NUC is my Recommendation for Laptop USERS.

Well, I do not use Laptop as a routine.

I need my hands free and a USB stick is my tool.

However, EASY OS Pup was caught by the Manjaro script.

It could not mount the Hard Disk and reported what MANJARO said.

No Boot Disk.

A major dissapointment.

I used to recommended PUPPY Linux.

I did not have Trixie Pup to test.