TRUE OS has done the Job

After three weeks of struggling I got my UEFI strangled Laptop to boot True OS without internet connection.

I have over 400 hundred (books of course 4000) CD and DVDs with Linux distributions but fishing out a bootable BSD DVD was difficult.

I have used BSD to erase Windows Boot's Strapping but never installed it on my PC.

For three reasons, it is destructive, it does not dual boot and has limited software at boot time.

Only 23 of large tank files.

Furthermore, it's file system is ZFS and dedicated to BSD.

Mind you True OS is BSD derivative.

It's  booting is like Linux but very specific and not at all flexible like Linux and one missing file or a wrongly configured file makes it to stop installing.

I have figured it out a few years ago, how to boot it from the Laptop and now I have forgotten, the boot time specifics.and BSD logics and logistics.

It prefers, I believe a FAT 16 file system.at the head of the SATA disk not GPT.

I may be wrong but only thing I did differently today was deleting all the partitions and having at the head 4000 MB FAT 16 partition(not FAT 32, in other words DOS).

It was a double whammy since Windows hidden boot script could not figure out how  to block BSD boot DVD.

Mind you, I do not have the password installed by Singapore OEM guy to change the booting option which is a a very simple thing.

Do not be paranoid to have a boot password.

If you do please give up being a computer administrator and become a priest.

I had made this DVD in 2017 and all DVDs of 2018 and 2019 found shy of UEFI and won't  try erasing, it at installation.

I think both Linux and BSD Developers  should get out of the mentality that "MacOS and Windows rule the World Paranoia" or poor psychology.

For over 15 years they do not exist in my sphere of influence.

To me they do not exist or even if they exist I do not care like others.

I am a totally FREE guy and nobody could boss me even at cadetting camp in Diyathalawa from the age of 16.

Mind you Endless OS did erase everything and I knew it could be done by BSD but finding the correct DVD was my problem.

I had few Other DVDs with TrueOS but they all failed.

I have run short of DVDs to make a few more copies of the 2017 DVD.

TrueOS configures a USB at  install time with all configurations  of your laptop or PC and please do not forget to have a USB at install time.

By the way, its desktop Lumina is beautiful and elegant.

I gave up cadetting after one visit there.

The bread the gave us for breakfast probably came from hell.

Now there, a supposed to be a Linux Guy who speaks good about the UEFI and there is nothing good about it, and is simply a pain in the ARxx.

The long article takes and hour to read ( I am good at reading.any rubbish but won't even remember five words of what he wrote) BUT if one cannot put it in five minutes it not worth reading it.

It is called  "In a nutshell".

Billions of years of evolution is in the seeds of the grass,too.

A computer should be like a lawnmower  in.your garden.