Installing Mandake Linux in a separate partition on a Windows machine
Step 1 - You must find out how much space is free on the computer's harddrive.
High-Light My-Computer
Left-Click on My-Computer, which gives the following:
Right-click on the harddrive (probably C:)
You should see a list on the left of the screen that shows the total capacity of the drive, the space used, and the space free. You need to have at least 2 GB and preferably 3 GB or more of free space if you want to install all of Mandrake 8.0. The minimum space need is 1.2 GB if you do a partial install.
Close My-Computer by clicking on the X in the upper-right corner.
Step 2 - Now that you know that you have enough spare disk space to install Mandrake, you need to move all of Windows into the top of the disk drive.
You must prepare the Windows machine by running Scandisk and Defrag on the hard drive.
Click on START/PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/SYSTEM TOOLS and high-light Scandisk
Press the ENTER key
Make sure the hard drive is selected (most likely C:). Set type of test to standard and check Auto-Fix errors. Then click the Start button. You should then see a sliding scale as the test progresses. The test may take serveral minutes.
Please Note: If there are any none fixable problems when running Scandisk, you can not Linux on this hard drive in a separate partition!
When the test finishes, you should see a report.
Click CLOSE on the report.
Click CLOSE on Scandisk
Now, you are ready to defragment the hard drive, which will move all of the Windows files to the top of the drive and free the rest of the space for use by Linux
Click on START/PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/System Tools and highlight Defrag.
Press the ENTER key
Make sure the hard drive is selected (C:) and press the OKAY button. You should see a sliding scale of the progress of the testing. The test can take quite a while to complete.
When the testing completes, you will see the following messge.
Click YES to exit the Defrag test.
Step 3 - Setting your BIOS to boot from a CD-ROM.
We need to shutdown the computer and interrept it as it restarts and does its memory test.
Click on START and Shutdown, as show below
This gives the following.
Make sure the Restart button is pushed and then click on OKAY to restart the computer
Wait for the computer to shutdown and restart. You should see the memory test start. For the Dell computers in the school lab, the screen looks like the following:
Notice the F2=Setup in the upper-right corner of the display. This means that if you press the F2 key before the memory test completes running, the computer will enter the BIOS setup menus.
Pressing F2 give the following screen in a few seconds.
The school machines have the BISO menus password protected. So, we need to enter the password and press the ENTER key. This gives:
We want to select the Boot Sequence feature of the menu and press the ENTER key. We then see something like the following:
Make sure the CD-ROM drive is in the list and enabled, and that the harddrive is at the bottom of the list. To move a device, highlight and use the + and - keys. When you are done, press the ESC key. Press the ESC key again and you should see:
Highlight Save Changes and Exit, and press the ENTER key. The computer should continue to boot.
Once the computer is finished booting, you want to insert the Mandrake 8.0 Installation CD-ROM into the the CD-ROM drive. If the CD-ROM auto starts, just click on EXIT in the program window.
Now, Shut-Down your computer.
Restart your computer. It should go through the normal memory test.
Then it should load from the CD-ROM and you should see the following:
To continue the installation, just press the ENTER key or wait a few seconds. Then you will see Linux load into memory.
After a few more seconds, you should see the Mandrake Setup screen. It asks you to select a language.
Select U.S. English, then click on OKAY. Then you will see a license agreement.
Read it, then click on ACCEPT. This should get you to the following Classes of Installation screen.
You want to click on Expert. Then click on Install. This gives:
You are asked if you have an SCSI interfaces. The school computers don't so I checked No and clicked Okay. If you have and SCSI interfaces, check yes and you will be taken through some other screens. Finally, you will get selecting the mouse.
The school computer has a standard two-button PS/2 mouse. I highlighted it and click OK. This showed the following:
Click on U.S. Keyboard and click on OK. Now you will a security level screen
Click on Low and click OK. This gets you to the partitioning screen
At this time, the disk have only one partition and it is a Window's or FAT partition. It is a blue bar. Click in the Blue Bar.
Now click on Resize. This gives wait notice.
It is followed by the following warning:
Click OK. You will now see a sliding scale showing the size of the Windows partition. For the school machine, it 9700+ MB. This is a 10 Billion byte drive.
Only 1.5 GB of the drive is used by Windows, but we want to leave space for more windows files. So, we slide the slider to the left until the Windows partition is 6000 MB. This is shown below.
Now, click on OK. You will see some screens about Pleas wait, resizing. Then you see a screen with the blue Windows partition and a gray empty partition.
Click on the gray partition. This gives:
Now, click on Create.
Set the partition type to Linux Swap, by double-clicking on Linux Swap in the drop-down list.
Reduce the size of the swap file to 128 MB or to at least the size of your main memory. Then click on OK. You now have a Blue Windows partition, a Green Swap partition, and a Gray empty parition.
Click on the Gray partition.
Now, click on create.
We want on final partition (linux) to use the rest of the disk. Move the size slider all the way to the right. This gives us 3608 MB size partition.
Make sure the type is set to Linux native and click on OK.
You are done making partitions, so click on Done.
Click on OK to write partition table.
Click OK to format the new partitions. There will be a few seconds wait. Then you will see a notice about looking for available packages.
After a few more seconds, you will be asked if you have the second disk. You do, so click OK. This brings up the following screen.
You now get to choose what program groups you want. If you have a lot of more, click every group. If you are low on space, only click what you need. For example, you don't need Gnome and KDE.
I click on everything.
When you are done, click the OK at the botton right of the screen Now you see a list of selected programs catagoriesfor installation.
Click on the + next to Workstation to see subcatagories.
If you click on Office Workstation you would see the following. Notice that there are unchecked boxes.
I didn't want to change any of these setting. Click on the - next to Office Workstation to close this group. Now we do want to click on the + next to Network Computer (client). And then click on Others in the new list. This gives:
We do want Telnet, so click on it. Now open up the the Utilities part of Workstation and go to the W's. This should show wine. we want it. Check wine. This gives:
Now, click the - on Workstation and go to the Development catagory. Click the + on Development. Then click the + on the subsub catagory of Development. Click on Others. Get down to the G's and click on gcc-g77. This allows the compiling of Fortran programs.
Click on gcc-java. This gives:
This shows a notice that several files are needed. Click OK. Move to the H's. Click on hugs98, a language used in my data structures class.
Go to the bottom of the screen and click on install, as shown below.
You get a warning about you are installing servers. You want to do this, so click on YES.
You will now see a screen that shows the progress of the installation. This can take a while to install everything.
About 2/3 of thw way through, you will get a message to insert the second CD-ROM.
Insert the Mandrake 8.0 Ext. CD-ROM into the drive and click on OK. After another wait, you get:
The install want the root password. The root password allows one to make any change to the Linux system. Type in the root password twice.
Click on OK.
Now, you are asked to make up a user name and password. Try adding yourself as a user and click on accept user. You will need the account if you Telnet, ftp, or ssh into the system from another computer.
Now make up another user and click on accept user.
Click on Done.
Now click on for the Window manager of KDE and click OK. Later, you can change it to Gnome or whatever.
Now click on Auto detect to look for modem or network cards and click OK.
Now, wait while the cards are detected.
The school computer doesn't have a modem, but it does have a network card which is connected to a local network. Click on OK.
This is the only network card on this computer, so click on OK.
Now, you enter the IP address and the Network Mask. For this computer, it is shown above.
Now I enter the Host name, the DNS address, and the Gateway address.
I don't want to use the proxity, so I just click on OK.
Yes, I want it applied to the system, so I click on OK.
Now you see a list of settings for the computer. You could change the time zone now, or later. When you are done click on OK.
You now get a list of what is automatically started at boot time. Just accept the list and click on OK.
Now you are asked if you want a custom boot disk. This is one way to start Linux on a machine shared with Windows. If you want one click yes. I don't so I clicked on No.
Now, the installation wants to set up daul boot for you. You have to click on OK. If you don't, it just destroys the Window boot and you have no boot.
You now see you see the boot sequence. It is possible to change the order if you wish. I plan to remove it, so I just click on Done.
Now choose if you want 3D support for X Windows. Just take the default and click on OK. There will be a screen loading the X drivers, then you should see the following:
Take the default for resolution and number of colors by clicking on OK.
Yes, you want X-Windows to start automatically. So, click YES.
The installtion is done! Click on OK to restart the computer.
It will take a little while for the computer to shutdown and restart.
Then you will see the boot loader for Linux and Windows. Make sure that Linux is highlight and just wait a few seconds and it will go into Linux. If you want to go into Windows, use the arrows to highlight Windows and press the Enter key.
It will take a while and go through several screens full of data.
It goes to a text log-on screen. Don't do anything yet.
Finally, it will get to the graphical log-on screen as shown below.
Now type the log-in and password for the system and click on Go. It will take a while, but X-Windows should start.
A few seconds later and you should see the KDE desktop.
I closed the KDE tutorial. Next, I wanted to see if the network works, so I clicked on the menus to get to Netscape.
I single-clicked on Netscape to start it. This gets me to the license agreement.
I clicked on Accept.
Netscape comes up displaying a local file.
I clicked on the empty square in the upper-right corner of the Netscape window to make it full screen.
I dragged the mouse over the address in the location field, and typed in the school Web address of www.tvcc.cc and pressed Enter. The school page came up. The network car is working!
I then changed the address in the location filed to altavista.com
I pressed the Enter key. I got to Altavista! The gateway works!
I closed Netscape by clicking on the X in the upper-right corner. This get me back to the KDE desktop.
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