Enlisy 09.1 Rexited Installation Guide
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The installation for Enlisy is really very simple to complete without a guide.
But for the ones who feel that it would be good to have one just in case, here follows a detailed description of the complete installation:
1. After you put the disc in your CD/DVD drive and have changed to the correct boot order in the BIOS, you'll be greeted with the above screen. Here you can choose between three options.
- Install Enlisy = Start the installation program
- Start Shell = Start a shell that you can then start the installation program from if you'd like, or use as a rescue CD.
- Memory Test = A small application that tests the memory modules for errors.
Use the arrow keys to go up and down in the menu, and then press Enter on the selected choice.
In this guide we will choose the "Start Shell" option.
Notice that if you don't move the selection within 30 seconds, the option "Install Enlisy" is automatically chosen.
2. If you'd like to change a boot setting for an option, you can press F8 and an input line will appear beneath the menu.
There you can edit boot parameters, like which keyboard layout to use after bootup of the disc.
The different keyboard layouts are as follows:
- keymap=us
- keymap=uk
- keymap=sv
To edit the parameters on the input line, just do as you normally would edit text. Erase characters with backspace, move the prompt with the arrow keys etc.
Of course, you are given the option of even more layouts in the installer!
Note that the menu option "Memory Test" doesn't have any parameters you can edit.
Finally, also remember that if you delete every parameter of a given menu option and then continue, it wont work!
3. OK, now we are in the shell. As usual you can do a lot of things here. Try it yourself to see what possibilities are available.
As you can see, you can start the installation with the command "install-curses".
That is what we're going to do in this guide anyway.
So type install-curses and press Enter!
4. Welcome to the Enlisy installation program. The keys you can use in it are:
- Enter = Accept and continue
- Piltangenter = Change the selection on buttons and lists.
- Escape (ESC) = Terminate the installation and return to the shell.
- Alt+q = This will also terminate the installation and take you back to the shell.
- Tab = Go back one screen
- Shift+Bokstav = Jump to the letter you pressed in lists.
Select "Yes" and press Enter to continue
5. Select the keyboard layout you want to use.
In this guide we choose "Swedish".
6. Select which unit you want to use for timezones.
We choose "Local".
7. Select your timezone.
We choose "Europe/Stockholm"
8. Choose whether or not to configure your network.
We choose "Yes"
Note that you can only configure "eth0" (the first network card in the computer)!
9. Choose if you want to configure the network automatically with DHCP or if you want static IP.
We choose "Static" for demonstration purposes.
10. Select the module (driver) for your NIC. If the module is in the list choose that one, otherwise choose "None" and type the name of the module you use.
We choose "None" for demonstration purposes.
11. Enter the name of the module you need.
We entered ne2k_pci (for Qemu).
12. Enter the IP-address you want the network card to use.
13. Enter the netmask.
If you don't enter a netmask it will be set to 255.255.255.0 automatically.
14. Enter the broadcast address.
15. Enter the gateway address.
16. Enter the address of your nameserver (DNS).
17. Enter the hostname you want your computer to have.
18. Now it's time for partitioning of your harddrive(s). We choose "Yes" here.
If you choose "No" and don't have any partitions on your drive, you'll see a warning and be sent back to the selection again.
Also remember that if you remove any previous partitions and save the partition table, all data will be lost on those partitions.
19. Select the disk you want to create partitions on in the list and press Enter.
20. You are now in the partitioning application cfdisk where you can create the partitions than are necessary to install Enlisy.
You use the arrow keys like before to move the selection to the choices, like New, Quit, Write and so on. And Enter is used to accept.
As you can see in the picture, there is an available space of 4293.60 MB (Megabyte).
We need two partitions minimum. One swap partition (virtual memory) and one for / (root).
We start with the one for / (root)
21. Select the "New" option and press Enter
22. Select "Primary" and press Enter
23. Enter 3800 and press Enter
24. Select the "Beginning" option and press Enter
25. Now we have created the first of two partitions. Now lets create one for swap
26. To create a new partition we must move the selection to "Free Space" in the list and choose the "New" menu option.
27. Select the "Primary" option and press Enter
28. Press Enter to make it use all the available free space
29. There, now we have created the two partitions we need.
30. Select the "Write" option and press Enter
31. Type yes and press Enter to save the partition table to the disk.
32. There, now the partition table has been saved.
Notice that the first partition is named sda1 and the other sda2.
sda1 is for our / (root) partition and sda2 is meant for our swap partition.
33. Select "Quit" and press Enter.
34. The installer asks you if you want to partition another disk as well.
We choose "No" in this guide.
35. Now the installer asks which partition to use for >swap
We select "sda2" and press Enter.
36. Choose whether or not you want to format the swap partition.
We choose yes
37. The installer asks for the / (root) partition.
We choose yes here (not that there are any others) and continue by pressing Enter.
38. Select the filesystem you want on the partition.
In this case we choose "ext4" as our filesystem.
39. VChoose whether or not you want to format the / (root) partition (sda1).
We choose "Yes"
40. Here the installer asks if you want to mount more things (i.e. CD, DVD) after the system is installed. This is so they can be mounted automatically after the installed system is started.
We choose "No" here.
41. Time to install the packages.
Select "Yes" and press "Enter" to begin the installation of Enlisy!
42. Now all that's left to do is to wait for the format and installation process to finish.
Note that it will take a while depending on your hardware.
If you want more detailed info than what's displayed on the above screen you can change the screen to one with more background info (that for example shows the installation of every independent package).
You do this by pressing Alt+F3. When you want to change back you press Alt+F1. If you'd like to use an extra shell during the installation instead, you can get that by pressing Alt+F2.
Note that when the packages have been installed you need to have screen 1 (Alt+F1) selected before being able to move on.
43. This is an example of what it can look like if you change to screen 3 which has more info.
44. Choose if you'd like to install a boot loader (we use grub), so you can start Enlisy after installation.
We select "Yes" and press Enter to continue.
45. Enter the partition or hard drive (MBR) that you want to install the boot loader (grub) on.
We type "sda" (to place grub in MBR on the first disk) and press Enter.
46. Type in the password you want for the root user (the administrator).
47. Type it in again to confirm.
48. Choose whether or not you want an additional user account. This is recommended for security.
Therefore we decide to choose "Yes".
49. Enter the username on the new user account.
50. Enter the password for the user.
51. And again.
52. The installer will ask once again if we want to create another user account.
But we choose "No" this time.
53. Now the installation is finalizing and sets up the users of the new system.
This can take some time depending on hardware.
54. That's it! You have now successfully installed Enlisy on your hard drive. Select whether you want to reboot or be taken back to the shell.
We choose "Reboot".
55. If everything went well and the computer booted from the hard drive and not the installation CD, you should be able to see something like the above image.
Select an alternative and press Enter to start your newly installed Enlisy-system.