Starting the tuxtrans Live system

Insert your tuxtrans DVD or USB and boot your PC. Many systems will recognize a boot medium and start from it. On some systems you need to tell the pc that you want to boot from the cdrom or USB drive: you may need to press a certain function key after the startup screen appears (F12, F9, F8 or others) to enter the boot selection menu, or you need to adapt the boot priorities in your BIOS setup, telling the system e.g. that it should try to boot first from the cdrom, then from the USB and if there are no bootable mediums in these drives, from the harddisk. On some systems you need to press ENTER at the "boot: " prompt.

You will see the startup screen of the live system. On most systems you can choose "LiveCD". On older systems or on pcs with particular graphic hardware (monitor and graphics card) you may need to choose "xforcevesa" for the safe graphics mode.

The systems starts. It will log in automatically as user and start the Gnome graphical desktop.

You are ready to go: try all the translation specific applications by clicking on the Ubuntu icon on the top left, do office work, surf the internet, send emails, skype with friends, etc. Please bear in mind that working from the DVD or USB drive is considerably slower than an installed system.

You may also install tuxtrans.