Uninstall PC-BSD and install Ubuntu

[premjan]

It looks like my laptop is not among those supported for HP. It doesn't detect my Wireless LAN card. Now I want to wipe PC-BSD and put Ubuntu on there. If I burn an Ubuntu CD or put the ISO onto a thumb drive, how do I get the PC-BSD boot loader or other program to install that now? I would appreciate any tips. I tried to create a dual-boot device but PC-BSD wrote over my Windows install earlier.

I had created another thread for the wifi issue over here.

[bds]

here's a thread from the forums -- http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=14273 -- there will probably be some work involved, though, getting the disk set up correctly.

if you want to overwrite the PC-BSD install, you should be able to just follow the install process & select to install Ubuntu to the entire disk.

HTH

[bds]

posted a reply in your other thread. take a look there before you go back to ubuntu.
cheers!

[premjan]

I'm downloading the full USB version of PC-BSD now and I'm going to try to make it coexist with Ubuntu. Ubuntu (like Windows) seemed to support my wifi without any special tinkering.

[bds]

you're in the thick of experiencing this for yourself, but it bears saying: FreeBSD (and as a result PC-BSD) doesn't follow the "everything and the kitchen sink" mentality of a lot of the Linux distros. the burden of implementing (or attempting to implement) the correct drivers is placed on the user; that being said, i think Kris & Co. have done an awesome job of getting us *most* of the way there, but sometimes there will be hiccups.

depending on how things work out with the wireless driver, you might consider submitting a hardware report for your specific HP model to the FreeBSD list (http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html).