ii - insert your installation floppy disk and your Mandrake CD (if needed) in your drives and restart your machine.
iii - press 'enter' until the 'boot:' prompt appears and carefully follow the instructions which appear on the screen.
iv - after having chosen the installation language (such as French) and the keyboard (such as fr-latin1), chose " Disk Druid " in order to create/chose your Linux partitions. The minimum requirement is to create at least two distinct partitions:
- your main Linux partition, which will need to be loaded on " / " ("Mount point : / "). This will be the root directory (" root directory "). The size of this partition will need to be at least 300 Mb. More experienced users may load the /usr and /home directories on supplementary partitions.
- a swap Linux partition. This partition will need to be equal to approximately twice the size of the available RAM (Random Access Memory), or more for a server.
vi - when the installation is complete take out the floppy disk and the CD-ROM and restart your machine.
vii - Linux should start. " Log in " as " root ". If X-Window is correctly installed, you should be able to start up KDE by typing "startx " on the command line.
Important note : the " root " account will give you unrestricted access to your Linux system. Do not use it except to configure or administer Linux. For every day use, use a normal user account with the " adduser USER " and " passwd USER " commands.
Good luck with Linux-Mandrake :-)
