The Lite and Xtra Lite Desktops

You should consider installing the Lite or Xtra Lite

Desktops if you are running low powered or very old machines. As the name

suggests, Xtra Lite is the lighter of the two. We recommend that you try Lite

first, and if that does not work, try installing Xtra lite. Both support graphic

and text based installs, so if the former doesn't work, choose the latter

route.

Installation is fairly simple. Pop in Disc 1 and when

Anaconda loads up, and displays the Linux mascot, click on next. Select English

as the language of installation and US-English as the keyboard. Now, you will

get the list of install options. Choose the first one in the list — Lite

Workstations and click on next. On the next screen, choose between Lite and Xtra

Lite options.

Let us first try Lite. Choose Lite Regular and click on

next to bring up the disk partitioning screen. Choose automatic partitioning

here and proceed. In the next screen, you get three choices- Remove all Linux

partitions, remove all Linux partitions in this system and keep all partitions

and use existing free space. Your hard disk will also show up as selected. Once

you make your choice ( if this machine is going to run PCQLinux Lite desktop

only, then our recommendation is to choose “Remove all partitions in this

system”. If you are going to dual boot, then you need to choose “keep

partitions and use existing free space. For this, the free space has to be

created on the disk before you start the install.

Use a tool like partition

magic), you will be given an alert about the partition being removed. Once you

say yes to this, you will get the drive mapping. At first, it looks like a

complex table. Ignore it for the time being and click on next. You will move on

to the screen that installs Grub, the boot loader. If you have only Linux, then

you need not worry and can safely click on next. That brings up the network

devices screen. Your network card will show up here. Assuming you have only one,

it will be named eth0. Most networks today, including ISPs work on DHCP.

If that is the case you do not have to do anything on this screen, other than

click on next. However, if you do not have DHCP services available, you will

need to click on the edit button next to the details of the network card and

remove the tick mark next to “configure using DHCP” in the dialog box that

comes up. Now you need to enter the IP address and netmask for your machine and

click on OK. Now, you will have to change the “set the hostname” setting to

manual, and put in your host name and gateway address. Finally, those without

DHCP will have to give the gateway and DNS addresses.

In the next screen, ensure that the default of “enable

firewall” is not changed. In the next screen, accept the default, where the

language is set to English (USA). Time from the next screen is also set for you

to IST. The next screen prompts you for a root password, and once you have done

that, the system is ready to install your chosen Lite desktop. In the case of

Lite, you do not get to choose packages.

In all other options, you can modify

the package choice at this point. Once installation is over, reboot and you

should be up and running.At first boot, the system will downgrade your kernel if

you are running Lite or Xtra Lite. This is because the original install is done

on the latest kernel, which is not required for Lite. Once this is done, your PC

will boot again and load up PCQLinux 2006 Lite , or Xtra Lite as you have

chosen.