It's Over!

There you are. The installation is now complete and your GNU/Linux system is ready to be used. Just click on Reboot to restart the system. Don't forget to remove the installation media (CD-ROM or floppy). The first thing you should see after your computer has finished doing its hardware tests is the boot-loader menu, which gives you the choice between the OSes your system can boot.

Advanced Options

The Advanced button shows two more buttons to:

  1. Generate auto-install floppy: enables you to create an installation floppy disk which will automatically perform a whole installation, similar to the one just finished, without the help of an operator.

    Note that two different options are available after clicking on that button:

    • Replay. This is a partially automated installation. The partitioning step is the only interactive procedure.

    • Automated. Fully automated installation: the hard disk is completely rewritten, all data is lost.

    This feature is very handy when installing on a number of similar machines. See the Auto install section on our web site for more information.

  2. Save packages selection[1]: saves a list of the packages selected in this installation. To use this selection with another installation, insert the floppy and start the installation. At the prompt, press the F1 key, type linux defcfg="floppy" and press the Enter key.



[1] You need a FAT-formatted floppy. To create one under GNU/Linux, type mformat a: or, as root, fdformat /dev/fd0 followed by mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0.