How do I install Antix from a cd. I'm an absolute novice when it comes to Linux. I notice that there are about 14 lines for any of the links which has confused me.

The first/default line should be good to boot from, if not you can try other selections to boot. Once booted you can select install from the menu.

eriefisher wrote:The first/default line should be good to boot from, if not you can try other selections to boot. Once booted you can select install from the menu.

what i really need are step by step instructions - im a complete novice when it comes to Linux.

Boot up using the live CD and that will give you a working system (running from the CD). If you want to install that version, then click on the menu and find"Installer" and follow the instructions.

I hope this helps. Good luck!

Pedro

For a complete novice look at this:


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This is the Mepis Community Site, there are several documents you can look at, antiX is based on Mepis, the installer is almost identical so take your time, do some reading, it will pay off in the long run.

cheers,
oldhoghead

You may find something helpful here too:
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plvera wrote:Boot up using the live CD and that will give you a working system (running from the CD). If you want to install that version, then click on the menu and find"Installer" and follow the instructions.

I hope this helps. Good luck!

Pedro

ok - i've managed to get to the 'coastal desktop' - after a couple of 'white screens of death' and a C drive reformat - but it doesn't recognise the mouse.

I have a tutorial made with screenshots for installing AntiX. The only thing is I made it for installing to external Flash drive. You can disregard where I told AntiX to install to (sdc1) and find the partition you want to install Antix and grub to. Good Luck with it.


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oldhoghead wrote:For a complete novice look at this:


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cheers,
oldhoghead

I managed to get to the 'seascape' desktop - (no login screen appeared). The mouse was very slow. Then next time I booted from the cd - it started out ok with the boot option quiet no splash vda=791 aufs - but after initially running through the script it came to a halt with a 'white screen of death' - disregard the 'white screen' bit - it did load to the desktop eventually, but there was no 'log-in' option

For livecd, auto login is used.

What are the specs of that box? CPU/RAM?

rokytnji wrote:I have a tutorial made with screenshots for installing AntiX. The only thing is I made it for installing to external Flash drive. You can disregard where I told AntiX to install to (sdc1) and find the partition you want to install Antix and grub to. Good Luck with it.


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I took a look at the tutorial and although the desktop and menu is the same when i click on Antix installer i'm taken to a box which says 'enter the administrative password' which i was told was 'demo' - when i do so it returns to the box with 'incorrect password .......try again.

demo is the normal user password (for example if you logout and log back in using the live-cd).
The adninistrative password is root

incorrect password .......try again.= type in the word root like secipolla said. You will be off and installing after that. Good Luck with it.

rokytnji wrote:incorrect password .......try again.= type in the word root like secipolla said. You will be off and installing after that. Good Luck with it.

well i thought i had it hacked but when i got to the last part i got the message ' failed to create required partitions return to step 1' I don't have Windows on the machine, and I am quite happy to use the whole of the drive without partioning it - but if i have no choice what do i need to do? - many thanks for all the help.

running in live cd mode
log into terminal as root.
type in enter password root
type in and post output of that is a lower case L after the dash