Debian is on again in my Laptop

I inadvertantly erased my Debian.

I had problem installing it without Internet connection.

It is all due to this UEFI boot loader of Microsoft incarnation, in fact, trying an incarnation in reverse gear, on my laptop which I erased 5 years ago.

It (boot loader) does not let me install Linux without Windows.

The records in the UEFI haunted me.

Thanks to BSD but specifically TRUE OS.

I had a installable DVD in my archive made in 2017, December.

Other DVDs I have shy of erasing the UEFI boot record.

Finally Endless OS erased it but won't let me  Linux dual booting.

Here is how to do it.

Boot TrueOS and install it.

Boot Gpart and delete the tank root partition.

Leave the ESP made by TrueOS untouched.

Boot Debian 10 latest CD1 (you do not need other Debian.CDs).

Install Debian in the free space by deleting tank partition.

Again do not touch ESP made by TrueOS.

Install Debian and let it do its partitioning.

It takes the remaining space for a huge home partition.

I delete it and resize it and make also a boot partition for safety.

BIOS partition does not function in this scenario.

Debian install its base system and once it is over let you select from the taskel the desktop types.

I select all except web server.

Hit install and it takes a bit of a time and I either sleep or browse my emails.

But remain nearby.

It stops and asks a few options for you to confirm including root password, user passwords and a few more questions.

Say NO to them since you are not connected to the Internet.

It wastes your time and your first DVD has everything you need.

It installs and eject the DVD.

Thanks again to TRUE OS developers.

Do not try Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution they hide behind UEFI even though they claim UEFI compatibilty.

This is true to Peppermint.and Mandriva.
I tried all of them.and only Debian succeeded.

Thanks to Debian and Debian developers please take a leaf out of BSD overtures (by default) and do feel shy to erase EFI.

The U or Unified is not TRUE, it defies Unification logic.

Coronavirus, Me and My Miniaturization

The Coroavirus was a blessing in disguise for me.

I pulled out all my USBs and SATA external disks (miniaturized now) and made all of them bootable.

Not only that some of them I have loaded with my favourite films.

Only a few games but  Computer Bridge was at top of the list.

I was very bad bidding and financing in Bridge as an undergraduate, since I learnt bridge watching  engineering students playing.

I have a very good understanding the card  pack watching my father playing local and primitive games.

I hated children card games.

They were two simple for my physics and mathematic brain.

52 cards little over 100 that our teachers wanted us to count was boring and repetitive.

But my mathematical brain was more suited to files and programming in Linux.

Little over 100 MB USB stick was packed with Linux executive files in Pendrive Linux, that, I used to carry in my front pocket.

It started with floppy disks and 40 odd Windows 95 operating system, I started hating from the very beginning.

In, reality I started with Debian 6 on a 4 MB RAM.

The first computer of my son.

Even though, I was not a.computer guy my brain was a better computer to figure out a solution for a problem.

Try posting again.
Why this is going to draft instead of posting?

All what you need is Network and a.networks of files to boot an OEM.

Loading them with Windows on defective HDD drives dumped on the University by ComputerAge and  other companies that have gone bust in Colombo which names, I forget for good reasons.

Kandy did not have computer companies then and ComputerAge was a little company in Kandy, owned by  one of those guys from Kandy who pioneered it at the business end of the spectrum.

I do not go there except for curtsey call, since he only knows windows and nothing else.

He used to go to Singapore and bring some good stuff which I used to buy.

I learned the TRICK of going to Singapore for a shopping spree and not UK business but books and.academic stuff.

Singapore also has good book store the Popplar, which I visit every time, I visit there but not like Foyles in UK.

Two of those gadgets I removed were  the early versions of SATA, one was 120 GB and the other was 320 and I am still looking for  external casings to put them in.

I can mount them with various sort of external jumpers but at my age bit risky with live wire.

I have burned a few speakers and I only have the external casing of them now to remind me my wrong connecting skills, right in front of my kids.

I have burnt a few media gadgets, too but never a HDD or SATA drive.

The nifty 320 Imation Drive I bought in Singapore on a nice casing is still working and I have our dog and cats live drama recorded there.

Too, expensive to burn them.

If you buy from a reputable company, they last but not the cheap Chinese Duplicates.

DO NOT buy cheap Chinese stuff.

Coming back to gadgets only a few USB sticks are not booting or reading the files invariably, they are Chinese Made.

Imation 16 GB stick I have all the Linux.distributions, I use for trouble.shooting.

SCAN disks 32 GB SD Card has Peppermint  Linux.

Its boots live on BIOS system not UEFI, which, I never fancy.

Scandisk is another good company and I do not know where it comes from.

500 GB old DATA disk I removed from a proprietary gadget has all my Linux distributions that I can boot with my Laptop without Windows OP which now has Endless OS booting well and all my favourite films stored in a NTFS partition.

Who says Coronavirus was not profitable for me intellectually.

By the way, one terrabyte SATA has Endless OS.

When I get Data back.on my broadband WiFi, I will get BSD to boot it and finally Debian on it, which I accidentally erased but will have  the latest Debian 10, well before Linus put his kernel 15 for testing and kernel 15 and Debian 11 born.

I am not going to buy a fancy Apple pod but instead, I will taste real breadfruit for breakfast.

Bye, Bye!

China's Cyber-Spy Network is Deadly and Exposed

China's Cyber Spy Network is dangerous.

It is extensive and has tentacles spread globally.

It has developed a secret backdoor for sending information back to China's servers,  through innocent looking cheap equipments, routers, cellphones and in future (globally) using 5G.

This is the reason for Australian secret  service's warning and banning Huwawei.

I have a Huwawei Mobile Broadband and I have pulled out the Lanka Bell SIM.

In.any case Internet it's is disconnected by me using a Dialog SIM.

Both MobiTel and Dialog are already engrossed and overtaken by Chinese invasion.

They use simple techniques like building an infrastructure or a tall building inland off shore and leave gaping holes in them which Army, Navy and Air Force cannot  plug effectively.

They have no human guys in presence and that is why I say Do not buy Cheap  Chinese  stuff including margarines (odd numbers of fatty acids in them cause dementia and that is how they control an average Chinese citizen).

These are all their plans and thanks to Coronavirus, it has caused a temporary halt to their  Silk Road initiative.

Mind you, Chinese vaccine is very expensive and will increase our debt toll.

Russia has ambitions but not so deadly.

When I see this invasion our privacy, Microsoft domination of the world was a minor matter.

American computer hardware had secret backdoors for commercial advantage but not for espionage.

Facebook is doing that for American secret service gracefully.

I am not paranoid but bit sceptic in my beginning and that is why I will close this plug in mid July for good.

I am into BSD and BSD's primary concern was data security in the universities in early 1960s.

The world has moved on but with a lot of interference to our private security.

I used to say every time you open your email you lose your privacy but Chinese manipulations are much more dangerous and on.a wider scale  and global and our leaders are stupid enough not to realize the Chinese Goal Post ambitions.

They will win football in.Olympics.

That is why I agree with Handy Pelosi's call for boycott Chinese Olympics.

I do not like her personally but she is trying to.mitigate her unpopularity among Democrats in House and Senate.

She has some primitive Communist ideas that are not Democratic and she is old not to understand them.

She should retire along.with Anthony Fauci with Faucism.

But we must support Japanese Olympics and that may be the last Olympics without political dimensions.