Chapter 8. Installation

Table of Contents

1. Boot on the CD
2. Choose the keyboard layout
3. Start the install process
4. Hard disk selection
5. Partitioning strategy
5.1. Automatic partitioning
5.2. Manual partitioning
5.2.1. Create the /boot partition
5.2.2. Create the rootvg partition
5.2.3. Write the partition table on the disk
5.2.4. Select the partition where to create the rootvg
5.2.5. Select the /boot partition
6. Choose the software depot
7. Install the system
7.1. Select the software categories
7.2. Install the packages
8. Install the boot loader
9. Configuration
9.1. hostname
9.2. IP
9.3. Netmask
9.4. Gateway
9.5. root password
10. Reboot

1. Boot on the CD

Starting SeaBIOS (version 0.5.1-20100223_133805-squirrel.codemonkey.ws)



gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:03.0 C900 PCI2.10 PnP BBS PMM07E0@10 C900


Booting from CD-Rom...
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The Wakes GNU/Linux Operating System

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