Installation
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## Installation

### Verify that your PC will boot from CD-ROM

After creating the Zenwalk installation CD, restart the system. If the boot screen of Zenwalk CD appears, begin the installation. If your current operating system loads, the computer may not be configured to boot from the CD-ROM. Restart your system to reconfigure the BIOS settings. As the PC boots, the word "Setup" appears on the screen followed by the name of a key or keystroke combination. Typically, it should be:

- Touch "Suppr" or,

- Touch "Del" or,

- Touch "F2" or,

- Touch "Ctrl+Alt+Esc" or,

- Touch "F1" or,

- Touch "F10" or,

- Touch "Ctrl+Alt+S" or,

- (Others are possible).

After pressing the correct key, the “BIOS Setup” section loads. Modify the boot options to enable the CD-ROM. Often, the order in which you system looks for an "Operating System" needs to be edited. Make sure that you move CDROM to the top of the list. Save the settings, and restart the system. If it boots from the CD-ROM, a prompt will ask if you want to proceed. (Press any key to continue.)

### Installation of Zenwalk Linux

- Boot from the CD and perform one of the following actions:

- Accept the default boot options (if you use a standard IDE pata/sata controler)

- Or write the kernel name ("scsi " for the SCSI controller)

- then press [enter], and the installation will begin

- Begin the install process by choosing your keyboard:

- Select the keyboard layout you are currently using.

- There are two installation procedures provided: AUTOINSTALL and MANUAL INSTALL

- To install Zenwalk automatically, you can choose the AUTOINSTALL tool, which automatically partitions your hard drive. However, it is necessary to reboot after this auto-partitioning. If your hard disk is larger that 10 GB , 3 partitions will be created (swap, / and /home). If the hard disk size is between 3 and 10 GB, 2 partitions will be made (swap and /). If the hard disk size is less than 3 GB, then you will have to create the partitions manually.

- With "AUTOINSTALL", you will have to choose which disk is dedicated to Zenwalk.

- You must confirm that you want to erase all the data on this disk. If you don't want to do this, you may create the partitions manually.

- If you accept, the entire disk will be setup for Zenwalk.

- If you prefer to partition your disk manually, select PARTITION. Then select which hard drive you wish you partition.

- This will take you to cfdisk interface shown below.

- Select New to create a new partition. Select a partition type (Primary or Logical), partition size and so on. Select "yes" to create the first partition. Make it Bootable and create another partition for swap . Select New as before, choose a partition type and its partition size. Select "yes" to create the partition. Then select Type from the menu, enter 82 for Linux swap partition type. If you don't choose the "autopartition" tool, your hard-disk must be partitioned properly to install Zenwalk.

- If you wish to create more partitions, you can do so by selecting Newagain, and by following the same procedure as before, but this time, without changing the partition Type.

- In the example below, three partitions were created. Now select Write to write the partition table, and then Quit

- Select INSTALL next to continue with the installation. You will be asked to set up a swap partition. This should be automatically detected. Select OK to continue.

- You will be asked to choose a partition for / directory. After selecting a partition, you need to choose a file system. Select one of the four available file systems, then format (or not format/check+format) the partition.

- You can add more partitions to the system, and mount them during boot. Select a partition you want to mount during boot.

- After formatting the selected partition, you are asked to enter a target mount point directory for the partition.

- In the example below, partition sda3 is set to be mounted to /home directory.

- You can confirm the statuses of the partitions you mounted on the system, and the locations of their mount point directories.

- Now you are asked to select the installation source. Normally, it is your Zenwalk CD if you are installing Zenwalk from CD. Select the first option, "Install from the Zenwalk CD".

- Setup will begin installing packages, which takes about 15-30 minutes. No package selection is needed because this is a "one app/one task" system. And Linux beginners also avoid obtaining a corrupt system.

- Choose your preferred Linux Loader install mode. [simple] will work on most disks

- Some systems might require extra parameters to be passed to the kernel. If you know you need extra parameters, then enter them here. In most system, this is not required. Choose OK.

- standard is a safe choice, unless you are sure that your video card supports frame buffering (FB). You can select a resolution you want during boot. Options are with a lovely Zenwalk splash screen, with a boot logo or with nothing (standard).

- MBR (Master Boot Record) is generally a good place to install LILO, so select MBR, unless you have a reason not to do so.

- Set the hardware clock to either local time or UTC. Here in the example, local time was chosen.

- Select on-boot services, hit the "spacebar" to select/deselect the desired start-up items. (take a look at the dedicated section in this manual)

- It's time now to quit the install process and reboot, your disk will be automatically ejected, you will have to press Ctrl+alt+delete to reboot.

- If all is ok and if LILO is successfully installed, you will see the following bootsplash.

- Then you need to read through some licence agreements. If you agree with them, then select OK.

- Your sound card should be detected and configured by "alsaconf":

- Select your system language:

- Then, set the root password:

- Now it's time to add a user. Select Create User and follow the wizard (see the dedicated section of this manual).

- It is a good idea to create at least one user, which you can use for everyday use. To keep the system secure, it is advisable not to use the root account unless you need to change something in the system. In this example, I am creating a user account called "tsumi".

- Fill in the details for the new account. The ones you have to be aware of are: expiry date (choose Never, if you don't want to set an expiry date.), user group and password for the account. Once done, you can exit from UserConfig by entering Done (see the dedicated part of this manual for more details).

- Now, you can choose to activate Numlock at boot (a bad idea for laptop users ;) ).

- Then, Videoconfig will setup your videocard or your graphic chipset and you will go to the graphical login.

- Welcome to Zenwalk Linux !.

- You are welcomed by the Graphical Desktop Manager.

- Next, you are invited log in to your Zenwalk Xfce Desktop:

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