How to install sidux preview onto a Harddrive.

About sidux: a short intro

Installation instructions

1. First you need to start your pc from the sidux preview CD, note you might have to set in your BIOS to boot first from the CD/DVD drive.
2. If sidux is completely booted, your in a KDE enviroment, click on the KDE menu


3. Then go the the sidux menu and click on install-gui as shown here:


4. The install-gui application will be started and displays the following window:


5. Click on the button.


6. You will now come into the Partition section, here you have to partition your harddrive so that sidux can be installed on it, remember that you need a swap-partition (recommended), so you need at least two partitions in this example, the partition section looks like this:


7. As you can see there are no partitions yet, so click on the Start Part-Manager button to start the partition manager Gparted, as shown here:


8. In this window you can see that there is one harddrive which is 4GB big, it's devicename is sda, and there are no partitions on it yet. So click on the gray 4.0 GiB area and then on the new button.


9. Because we have a clean harddrive the following window will appear:


10. Just click on the create button then the following window will appear:
    again press the create button


11. The following window will appear:


12. Now the first partition we are going to make is the swap partition, enter in the field next to the text New Size (MiB) the value 512, with this we create a swap partition of 512 MB, the system has 256MB of memory, and mostly the swap partition is doubled in size. Then you select as Filesystem the option Linux swap so that the partition will be formatted as a linux swap partition, and it will be mounted automaticly with linux. After this you click on the button ADD . After this we get the following window, where you can see that we have created one partition and that there is space left to create more partitions:


13. Now we are going to create the root partition, so click on the gray area , next to the first partition , and then press the button, we now get the following window:


14. Leave the New Size (MiB) as it is, so the rest of the HD will be used for the root partition, be sure that ext3 is selected next to Filesystem so that the root partition will be formatted as ext3 filesystem. Now click on het ADD button. Now you have an overview of HD which got two partitions, one for swap and one as root partition, to make these changes valid, click on the Apply button.


15. The following window will appear , asking you if you are sure to execute these changes to your HD, click on the Apply button to make these changes!


16. After this , the installer will make the two partitions, format the root partition with ext3 and the swap partition as swap. The following window will appear where you can follow which action is being executed:


17. When the all actions are executed you will get to see the next window:


18. Click on the Close button to close this window.


19. Now you will see the main window with the two partitions on it, you also see some yellow area , this indicates that this information is reserved for the filesystem. The main window with the two partitions made and formatted looks like this:


20. Now click on the X of the Gparted window to close Gparted .


21. You will now see the installer window again, make sure that the right partition (in our case /dev/sda2) is selected as the root partition , the whole window will look like this:


22. Click on the Next button to continue go to the Grub Tab.


23. The Grub tab , in this section you can change the grub boot manager settings, you also can make a bootfloppy if you want to, in our case we keep the default settings and click on the Next button.
    The Grub tab looks like this,


24. Now we get into the user tab, here you have to define a password for the root user, and add a user here (recommanded)! The user tab:


25. If everything is entered then click on the Next button. To go to the Network tab, where we will define our (network) hostname, as shown here .


26. Click on the Next button. To go to the Installation Tab, here you can save the settings and start the installation , or just save the settings, force an installation or go back to scratch. The window looks like this:


27. We are satisfied with the settings, so we click on the Begin Installation button.


28. The installation of sidux to your HD will begin, the installation progress window will appear which gives you information about how far the installtion procedure is:


29. The installer will display the following window when the installation to HD is done:


30. Now we are going to test your installation, reboot your machine by clicking on K-menu->End Session->Restart computer , remove the CD, while your computer is starting up from HD you will see the GRUB Boot Manager, just press enter to start sidux from HD:


31. Your system will boot up with X-windows and desktop enviroment KDE , which ask you to logon, as shown here:


32. Enter your created username and password and KDE will be launched and you can work with sidux from HD. The KDE sidux-enviroment looks like (preview) this:


33. Enjoy sidux!!