Mandriva Linux Installation Guide

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Camille Bégnis, Christian Roy, Fabián Mandelbaum, Roberto Rosselli del Turco, Marco De Vitis, Alice Lafox, John Rye, Wolfgang Bornath, Funda Wang, Patricia Pichardo Bégnis, Debora Rejnharc Mandelbaum, Céline Harrand, Pascal Rigaux, Thierry Vignaud, Giuseppe Ghibò, Pavel Maryanov, Felipe Arruda, André Machado, Laura Sebrie.

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September 2007


Choosing your Language
Configuring your Keyboard
License Terms of the Distribution
Installation Class
Where to Install Mandriva on your Hard Disk
Choosing Mount Points
Manual Choice
Partition Naming
Choose the Partitions to Format
Managing your Hard Drive Partitions with DiskDrake
The Interface
DiskDrake's action buttons
Resizing an Old Partition and Creating a New One
Package Selection
Choosing the Installation Media
Supplementary Installation Media
Choosing a Graphical Environment
Choosing Package Groups to Install
Minimal Installation
Choosing Individual Packages to Install
User Management
Administrator (root) Password
Enter a user
Installing a Bootloader
Graphical Interface Configuration
Checking Miscellaneous Parameters
Summary
Time Zone Options
Configuring X, the Graphical Server
Selecting Available Services at Boot Time
Installing Updates from the Internet
It's Done!