i guess i'll try a different os
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today i finally installed trisquel again...on the main hard disk by accident.
i am pretty poor and sometimes must use something i plan to sell. i had the original os on this machine and a craigslist ad up for it. but i wanted to see if i could outright install trisquel on a boot stick (usb), not just the iso but to truly install it. maybe this was foolhardy? nonetheless that's not why i'm trying another fsf-approved os at the moment. it's because when i double-clicked the desktop icon to install trisquel, it didn't seem to have a choice for me regarding which disk to install it on. it blew right past that in an almost totally-automated process and wiped my main disk and installed trisquel. this seems like a fundamental lack of freedom, not the same kind of freedom as libre software, but another kind of freedom. i also had misgivings because of the sysvinit/systemd controversy, but now that i (maybe?) have encountered an obvious lack of freedom, i'm putting this here but looking elsewhere too.
important notes: no important data lost. wanting input, i love trisquel and totally free software. also, i'm wondering about a good os without systemd and which never auto-selects disk for installation.
happy,
patrick
what's GNUinOS? or wait when i click into the website it says genuen os? is it fully libre?
Its supposed to be, the author is attempting to, not sure if he fully succeeded yet. I think he has though.
Btw, if you want a really debloated os but don't need a lot of software, Hyperbola exists. But I will admit, its a DIY distro and is very tricky.
This being said, either choice is good.
Genuen was changed from gnuinos on request from FSF.
For some reason after almost a decade they asked it to be changed. Not sure why.
>"it blew right past that in an almost totally-automated process and wiped my main disk and installed trisquel"
Are you sure you are talking about Trisquel? The installer is definitely not "almost totally-automated".
If you made a mistake with the partitioner and misunderstood some option, then say that instead.
I see, so he misunderstood the choices on trisquel install...
Yeah... then in that case, he is better off with genuen if he wants freedom from systemd while it still being libre.
There sometimes is an option to install alongside your current OS. I think he thought that would appear for him. Just a guess.
But yeah.
> wiped my main disk and installed trisquel.
So I think I did this to my hard disk some years ago. There is a recovery software package included in Trisquel called testdisk. It should be easy to use anyway.
The hard disk does not really lose the data unless I guess you overwrote the whole disk with random data. I wouldn't get discouraged yet.
I would get started by reading the documentation: