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Installing Mandrake Linux is, in most cases, as simple as putting
your Installation CD in your CDROM drive, and restarting your
machine. Please refer to point 1.
NOTE:
If you upgrade from 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0 or 8.1 Mandrake Linux versions,
do not forget to backup your system.
Upgrading from earlier versions (prior to 7.0) is NOT
supported. In that case, you need to do a fresh
installation and not an update.
You can also install Mandrake Linux onto a Windows 95/98/ME system,
using Linux for Windows. This does not require disk
partitioning, and installs Linux in a Windows folder. It is a
convenient way to discover Mandrake Linux without modifying your
Windows system. It is however significantly slower than a regular
installation. Also, your Mandrake Linux installation is lost if you
re-install Windows. Please refer to point 2 to
use Linux for Windows.
Below are listed the different ways to install Mandrake Linux:
The Installation CDROM is bootable. In most cases, just insert the CD
into the drive and reboot the machine. Follow the instructions
displayed on screen: press the [Enter] key to start the
installation, or press [F1] for additional help.
NOTE:
On some portable computers, the system may not reboot from the CD. If
this is the case, you should prepare a boot floppy.
See point 3 for details.
To install Mandrake Linux within a Windows folder, avoiding any
disk partitioning, you should:
Insert the first CD,
Reboot the system,
Press [F1] when the Mandrake Linux screen comes up,
Type lnx4win at the prompt, then press
[Enter]
Follow the instructions shown on screen.
Additional details on lnx4win can be found in the appropriate
readme file.
NOTE:
When inserting the CDROM under Windows, a window will
popup to give you access to an installation summary and to
Mandrake Linux demos and tutorial. It will also permit you to
create directly the boot floppy described in point 3.
If for any reason the previous methods do not fit your needs (you
want to perform a network install, an install from pcmcia devices
or ...), you will also need to make a boot floppy:
Under Linux (or others modern UNIX systems) type at
prompt: $ dd if=xxxxx.img of=/dev/fd0
Under Windows, follow the method described in point 3, but
using xxxxx.img (see below) instead of
cdrom.img.
Under DOS, assuming your CD is drive D:, type: D:\> dosutils\rawrite.exe -f images\xxxxx.img -d A
Here the liste of boot images:
cdrom.img
install from CD-ROM
hd.img
install from hard-disk (from a Linux, Windows, or ReiserFS filesystem)
network.img
install from ftp/nfs/http
other.img
install using seldom used drivers which don't fit on
previous diskettes
pcmcia.img
install from pcmcia devices (warning, most pcmcia network
adapters are now directly supported from network.img)
usb.img
install from USB devices: USB network adapters to perform
a network install, or USB CDROM/CDRW's to perform a cdrom install
blank.img
install using your own Linux kernel
blank.img is a minimal image to customize kernel
installation.
You can also use a text mode installation if, for any reason,
you have trouble with the default graphical installation. To use it,
press [F1] at Mandrake Linux welcome screen, then type
text at the prompt.
If you need to rescue your existing Mandrake Linux system,
insert your Installation CDROM (or any relevant boot floppy), press
[F1] at Mandrake Linux welcome screen, then
rescue at the prompt.
Insert your Installation CDROM (or Installation Floppy disk if
necessary) and restart your machine.
Press [Enter] when the Mandrake Linux welcome screen
appears and carefully follow the instructions.
When the installation is complete take out the CD-ROM when
ejected (and any floppy disk if present in drive); your machine
will restart. If it does not, restart it manually.
Mandrake Linux will start. After bootup, you can login on your
machine under the user account setup during install, or as
"root".
Important note:
The "root" account will give you unrestricted
access to your Linux system. Do not use it except to configure or
administer Linux. For every day use, use a normal user account
which you can configure with the
"userdrake" tool, or with the commands
"adduser" and "passwd".