Quick Startup Guide

Mandrake Linux 9.1

http://www.MandrakeSoft.com

by Camille Bégnis, Christian Roy, Fabian Mandelbaum, Joël Pomerleau, Vincent Danen, Roberto Rosselli del Turco, Stefan Siegel, Marco De Vitis, Alice Lafox, Kevin Lecouvey, Christian Georges, John Rye, Robert Kulagowski, Pascal Rigaux, Frédéric Crozat, Laurent Montel, Damien Chaumette, Till Kamppeter, Guillaume Cottenceau, Jonathan Gotti, Christian Belisle, Sylvestre Taburet, Thierry Vignaud, Juan Quintela, Pascal Lo Re, Kadjo N'Doua, Mark Walker, Roberto Patriarca, Patricia Pichardo Bégnis, Alexis Gilliot, Arnaud Desmons, Wolfgang Bornath, Alessandro Baretta, Aurélien Lemaire, Daouda Lo, Florent Villard, Gwenole Beauchesne, Giuseppe Ghibò, Joël Wardenski, Debora Rejnharc Mandelbaum.

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MandrakeSoft March 2003
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2003-03-24


Table of Contents

Preface
About Mandrake Linux
Contact Mandrake Community
Support Mandrake Linux
Contribute to Mandrake Linux
Purchasing Mandrake Products
About this Quick-Startup Guide
1. Installation Guide Warning
2. Before Installation
Configuring your BIOS
Creating a Floppy Boot Disk
Creating a Boot Disk Under Windows
Creating a Floppy Boot Disk Under GNU/Linux
Supported Hardware
What Is Not Supported
3. Installation with DrakX
Introduction to the Mandrake Linux Installer
Choosing Your Language
License Terms of the Distribution
Installation Class
Configuring your Mouse
Configuring the Keyboard
Security Level
Selecting the Mount Points
Choose Partitions to Be Formatted
Choose Packages to Install
Choose Package Groups to Install
Choose Individual Packages to Install
Multiple CD-ROM Installation
Root Password
Adding a User
Installing a Bootloader
Check Miscellaneous Parameters
Summary
Time Zone Options
Installing a Bootloader
Setup of The Bootloader Entries
Configuring X, the Graphical Server
Configure your Network
Selecting Available Services at Boot Time
Installing Updates from the Internet
It's Finished!
How to Uninstall Linux

List of Figures

2.1. The Rawrite Program
3.1. Very First Installation Welcome Screen
3.2. Available Installation Options
3.3. Choosing the Default Language