Installing tuxtrans

Before installing tuxtrans be sure to make a backup of your data or of the complete hard disc!

After the boot procedure you are logged in automatically as user. To install the system you need to start the install script "install tuxtrans" by clicking on the icon on the desktop.

The first thing to do is to choose the language of your installed system, so please choose your language in the following screen.

The next screen lets you choose your location and time zone.

The system also needs to know your preferred keyboard layout. Here you schould take the keyboard layout of the language you have chosen, i.e. the language of your installed system, so that you will get a monolingual system in your language with the appropriate keyboard layout. You may add other languages after the install.

Be careful when the installer is going to "prepare disk space", meaning where it is going to install tuxtrans. Always make a backup of your data unless your are installing it on a pc where you do not have any data stored. Choose carefully whether it should "Erase and use the entire disk", or "Specify partitions manually (advanced)" on a clean disk, or "install them side by side" if another operating system is detetcted on the hard disk.

More experienced users may choose "Specify partitions manually" and reserve one partition for the root directory /, another for the home directories /home and finally a small swap disk. If you want to install tuxtrans alongside Windows, ths installer will detect it automatically and propose to install tuxtrans side by side. Anyway, always be careful not to touch the partition where Windows is installed. If you take care of this it is easy to install a double boot pc, meaning a pc where you can choose at startup whether you want to work with Windows or with tuxtrans. You may also reduce the space of the existing Windows partition manually by starting gparted from the tuxtrans live cd/usb and creating a new partition using the remaining free space on your hard disk.

On the next screen "Who are you" you should input your name and the username you will use to log in into the system. Specify a password. Be careful: This user will have administrative rights on the system and this password will be needed for root privileges. After the install you may add new users, but you will always need this first password to perform administrative actions (installing software, changing things in the system, ecc.).

tuxtrans is now ready to install, it will show you again all the settings you made before actually copying the system.

Click on the install button to start the install procedure; but remember: Linux will always format (wipe clean) the partitions chosen for the install! tuxtrans will now copy all files to your hard disk.

After the install tuxtrans will give you the option to continue testing the system or to start up the newly installed system. That's it, your pc is ready with a newly installed tuxtrans!

You will find some help with Ubuntu (the basis for tuxtrans) here: