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Good morning/evening everyone,

I have just installed bsd on a new laptop and forgot to do a checksum before installing.

Everything went well and the install completed nicely.

I'm worried about security though as it's not my area of expertise. Is it possible someone could have built a backdoor into a dodgy download that I've unwittingly installed or should I not worry. I'm hoping I don't need to do a fresh install :( but if not checking the download is a security risk then I'll have to.

Kind regards,
Nick
 
cracauer@ said:
If you downloaded using a working, up-to-date browser from freebsd.org via https you don't need the checksum check for security purposes.
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I downloaded it using Chrome directly from the freebsd site. So I'll assume it's safe. Thanks :)
 
eternal_noob said:
Where did you download from?
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Hi everyone and thanks for the replies. The laptop I've installed it on is a Dell Precision 7510. It has a 500GB HDD and 256GB SSD (which I think is pci nvme, I'm not home now so can't check that).

The laptop was bought second hand and had windows on it. I duly removed it and peppered it with a variety of operating systems to play about with.

However, although I now have BSD up and running, the drives are a mess, I'm not sure which bootloader is doing work when I boot up, and there are a few rogue operating systems hanging around like the smell of burnt toast.

This is the first laptop I've ever owned with two types of storage, so I'm not sure what to do next. If I'm going to do the checksum and reinstall I'd like to tidy up my drives aswell.

So I have a few questions:

1. Is there a tool I can use to wipe both drives clean ready for a fresh install?

2. Is there a boot loader that will recognise 2 different drives and let me choose between them at boot or will I need to F2 each time I boot up to pick one?

3. Which drive should I use for the operating system? the HDD or Nvme SSD? Or could I use both (if possible as above and install one OS on one and a different one on another?

I wanted to use FreeBSD and Ubuntu with the option to switch between them at boot if possible.

Any suggestions would be appreciated :D

Thanks,
Nick
 
1. the partitioning tool in the installer; simply delete all partitions on the hard drives / SSD and start from there.
2. Most (all?) do this.
3. The SSD is faster than the HDD. Install the OS you will use most on the SSD, the other OS on the HDD.
 
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