We will now create a swap partition of 400MB (we have a system with
200MB of memory, normally you should have a swapdisk that is two times
as large as the available memory (RAM)). Use the slidebar
next to
the text
Size
in MB and slide
it to 400MB. Now you have to change the
Filesystem
type click on the text
Journalised
FS: ext3 a
pulldown menu will appear now select in this pulldownmenu the option
Linux
swap, the pulldown - menu
looks like this :
Then click on the
OK
button to
create the swap partition. The paritions window will appear and looks
like this now:
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The rest of the harddisk we
will use for the rootsystem (/). Click now on the white area (next to
the swap partition) and click the Create button (which will
appear). Now slide the slidebar fully to the right, this
because
we allocate the rest (1647MB) of the harddisk (which is 2 GB) to the
root filesystem (/). However you need to select a filesystem other than
swap, we select here the
Journalised
FS: EXT3 filesystem (default
value). Now we have one thing left
to do and that is to give the partition a mountpoint, click on
the
you can
select a
pre-defined mount point from the list. Here we select the root
mountpoint / , the next screenshot shows the settings.
After you clicked on the
OK
button the root partition is being made. The following window will
popup asking you if you like to move the files on the harddisk or not,
due to the fact that it is a clean harddisk you can click on the
Ok
button.
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After clicking on the
Ok
button you get the following
message:
click on
Ok
to continue.
The root device is
being
formatted, as the window shows
After formatting is ready,
which is mostly quickly, you get back to the partition overview , which
of the device
sda(or hda) looks likes this:
Click
Done.
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The next question is if you
want to save the settings into the /etc/fstab file, which will be used
after the system boots up.
Click on
Yes
to continue.
11]
You get back to step one of
the installation, click
Next.
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We now come to the second step of the installation, here we get an
overview of the partitions we have made , select or deselect the
Format
if
you will or will not format the partition, click
Next
to continue.
13]
We now get an detailed
overview of which partitions we are going to use and if they will be
formatted or not. Partition size , filesystem and mountpoint. Click on
Next
to continue.
14]
We have reached step 4 out
of 6, here the installation is going to format the partition(s) if
selected, and it will install SAM software in the root partition. This
will take some time.
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If the format en
installation process of the software is done, click on
Next
it should look like this:
In step 5 we have to select
were we want the bootloader to reside. We here prefer it in the MBR
(Master Boot Record) of the harddisc. Click on the text
"/dev/sda
(Master boot record of drive)"
and click on
Install.
This will install the
bootloader, if you don't do this, no
bootloader will be installed!!
If the bootloader is succesfull installed you get to see the following
popup
Click
Ok.
As you can read on this step the logging is deactivated because of the
LiveCD is readonly. To activate the logging click
, there will
be a popup to let you know that the logging is activated, here is the
popup
Click on
Ok
to continue.
Here is a screenshot of Step 5.
Click
Next.
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The Final step. Step 6 is
for giving your root account a password , which you have to enter twice
because you can mistype the password the first time. To save the root
password, click on
If you create a user for your system (which also can be done later) you
have to enter the users data and then you need to click on
to save the users data for the
next reboot. See here the Step 6 screenshot.
Click
on the
Yes,
reboot my system automatically now
and then on the
Finish
button.
Your system is now going to shutdown, ejects the SAM 1.1 CD and reboot.
The bootloader from SAM looks like this:
Press the return or enter key to boot SAM 1.1.
You will now get back in the graphic logon, with the same logon screen
as the LiveCD:
As
you can see in this screen there are
still the old users and passwords, don't worry they don't work any
more. Try it to convince yourselfs. If you try a defined LiveCD user
you get the following screen to see:
As you can see the username or password is incorrect, at this example I
tried to logon as root with password root, but I changed the password
during the installation procedure, that's why it didn't work. If you
enter the password which you entered during installation you will be
logged on to the system.
Well this concludes the installation of SAM 1.1 Livecd on the
harddrive, have fun with it.
Remarks:
Here are some remarks about
the review / ads / comments.
*This
review has been
made on a Virtual Machine. I used SCSI emulation, but it also worked
with IDE drives,
then the device
name is hda instead
of sda, but the
installation process is the same.
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