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If you would like to experiment with even more desktop environments at some future time, you might consider checking on Other Graphical Desktops. Notice that Mandrake knows that people will benefit from having both KDE and GNOME environments available and these are selected by default. I would also recommend Configuration and Console tools to help with system configuration.īefore you move on, look over on the right and you'll notice a section called Graphical Environment. Now, once again, I am going to point out that if you want to be able to compile programs (for those bleeding edge new programs), you should also click on Development. If I assume correctly, you will probably want to play games and music in which case you should click on Game station as well as Multimedia station. That means you get your word processors and spreadsheets as well as email clients and Web browsers. Office Workstation is automatically selected as is Internet Station.

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A standard Mandrake install is a Workstation install and that's where the emphasis is placed with the defaults.

You will be looking at the Package Group Selection screen. Now it is time to decide what kind of a system you want. Click OK to continue and the partitions will be created and formatted and a list of available packages will be pulled from the install disk.

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The default option is to ' Use free space' and that is probably what you should choose. Remember also that this will not work with NTFS file systems (see earlier comments in this chapter). You might remember from my earlier discussion that the only caveat is that Windows disk must be defragmented first. This is quite interesting because it makes it possible to automatically resize the Windows partition, making use of the free space in order to install Mandrake. The options here involve erasing the entire disk, doing your own custom disk partitioning, or using the free space on the Windows partition. Now it is time to set up your file systems. Then, the Mandrake install automatically detects your hard drive, mouse, and keyboard and those respective lights go green. Unless you are already feeling comfortable with this, click Install to accept the Recommended install. On the next screen, you'll be given the choice between a Recommended and an Expert install. Notice that the ' Choose your language' light went green while the ' Select installation class' light went from red to orange.

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On the next screen, read the license agreement (where you learn about the GPL and related licenses) and click Accept. Select your language of choice or click OK to accept United States English and continue. The first of these steps is to select a preferred language for installation and there are many. Looking at the labels, it is very easy to see exactly what is going to happen during the process.

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Down the left hand side of the screen is a series of lights that change from red to orange to green as you go through the various steps. Mandrake uses a kind of drag racing metaphor for its install (Mandrake 9.1 does away with the lights, but the steps remain more or less the same).

In a few seconds, you'll be at the main install screen. Press and you are on your way.īasic hardware detection takes place at this time and the installer is loaded into memory. Pressing will allow you to choose between text and low resolution install modes, while the default is the standard graphical install. Mandrake boots with a graphical screen with two options. Reboot your system with the installation CD in the drive. With this Mandrake install, I used version 9.0.

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