A walk through the installation of windows xp and the gos on your computer.
Step 1:First download the gOS image from this page and burn it onto a cd
Step 2:You require a minimum of 2 partitions one for XP and the other for gOS do not create a partition for gOS now leave the space in which you want to install gOS un partioned , you may want to have some more partitions to organize your other files. Partition your hard disk in a way thats most convenient to you and install windows xp in your first partition.
Step 3:Once the installation of xp is complete reboot your computer with the cd you burned in the first step. Your screen will look like this at this point
Step 4: O n the above screen press f4 to select your screen resolution ( The resolution you use in xp or the ideal resolution for your monitor ). Once you selected the proper resolution select start or installing gOS and press enter. Your screen will look like this now. gOS takes between 5-10 minutes to boot ( I haven’t measured this actually) . There is nothing for you to do at this stage you can have a cup of coffee and enjoy the beautiful view of the boot screen.
Once your gOS boots your desktop should look like this. It has a very clean look. Overall, I am impressed. It is running
Enlightenment instead of KDE or Gnome.
Step 5: To start the installation process click on the install icon on the top, this should bring up this screen. Select your language and click forward. The install procedure is very simple and you don’t have many options to choose, you should try very hard to screw up the installation
Step 6: Select your time zone and click forward
Step 7: This is the step very you have to be very carefull if you screw this you will end up in loosing all the data on your hard disk including the windows xp you installed. Select the manual option and on the next screen select free space on your disk and and create an new partition in it with ext3 file system leave some space for the swap ( twice your ram). Now click on the free space you left and select new partition and then select swap.Now click the forward button
Step 8: Now you are asked for the user name , password and computer name. Enter them and click forward. Now you will get a screen like the one shown below click install on it.
Step 9: You have nothing to do in this step just sit back and relax. The screen during the installation looks like the one below
Step 10: Once you are don with the install process it will ask if you want to restart the computer or continue using the live cd. Click restart and remove the cd from your hard drive and when your computer reboots your new gOS is ready to be used.
gOS boot screen:
gOS login screen:
Screen shot of the gOS desktop
