Visual Tour: Installing Sabayon Linux KDE4

On our desktop is the icon for the Installer - so click on that

Up comes the first screen of the installer - The most important thing to do here first is click the Update Installer button, this will bring in any fixes and changes needed after initial release. Very important to do this step first, than go thru the entire install. Once that is done, select your language.

The wizard is very straight forward, follow along, most problems we see here, people don't pay attention to what they are clicking on or forget some text box that needed to be filled out, so please, double check the screen before clicking forward. So now select your keyboard layout.

Checking for any previous installs

Here you can select to do an install or do a rescue of a previous install.

Pick the desktop that you want. Read the descriptions for more details.

On this screen we can choose not to install a few sections.

Clicking the details button shows you the packages that are included in that section.

Here we check the services that you want auto started on boot. If you want SSH on start up, make sure Secure Shell is started.

Moving on to the Partition, which seems to get a lot of new people scratching their heads. You have two options, automatic and manual. If you choose automatic you will be using LVM Logical Volume Management. You will need to learn LVM if you choose this and you can read more about it by clicking here. I myself always do the manual on my main machine as it's partitions are already setup. If you are doing a manual setup, all you really need is a / and swap setup. Anything beyond that is up to you, but a / and swap is all you need, which is only 2 partitions. In this install, I will show the manual way, to see the automatic, please see the wiki entry for the Gnome install.

Here you can see I have just over 10GB of space to work with. I will want to make 2 partitions here a / and swap.

I click on New and create a roughly 10GB partition as shown, adjust your needs accordingly.

Now you can see I have my free space left to create my swap, select the free space and click new. Set swap to your needs.

There, all there is to it, now we can see what our new system will consist of

The boot loader, also known as grub settings

Next comes the hostname - please change this to something unique or leave as is, but make sure a name is there.

Set your timezone, pretty simple, click on the map

This is probably the biggest change to the installer. You will notice when you type in your confirm password, it will automatically fill in the Administrator (root) account. You can leave it and have the same password or click in the box an change it to have better security. I don't recommend that User and Root have the same password.

Now we are ready to begin the installation

Changes to the hard drive

Installing now, basically sit back and wait now. You'll get the finish window when the installation is complete. On reboot, you will boot into your new Sabayon Linux installation.

Congrats!