this post is about a fully free operating system named gNewSense. To find out what is a fully free OS please go through this.
to find out the free operating systems recomended by FSF please refer this link
Before installing ,this operating system is using gnome 2.30.2 so you want be getting touch screen like gnome 3.
We can download the image from here. We can use it as a live CD as well as installation disk.
Select “GUI Install” for installation. If you are familiar with text mod select “text install”
gNewSense install
Select language in the next screen.
Select Language
In the next screen we can select the location of the system
Select location
We can configure keyboard layout in the next screen and click “continue”
Select Keyboard layout
Next screens we can provide Desktop name and domain name,
and In my lab setup dhcp server is running. We can also configure static IP .
Select Computer Name
Select Domain Name
Setup root password and confirm it in the following screen
setup root password
The next 3 screens are for configuring the user account.
first screen is full name of the user, second is Login name of the user and third is password details for user
Full name of the user
setup Login name for user
setup user password
partitioning disk,Next screen select guided partitioning .
Guided partition
Select “Guided-Use entire disk.”
If you want to specify some partitions. Please select “manual and select/edit a partition.
also we can select lvm or encrypted lvm.
Use entire disk
select the hard disk to use
Select first option for using entire file systems to be part of single partition.
use a single partition
next screen will be summary of partition scheme.
partition summary
in the next screen we can commit the changes with “yes” or we can select “no” to the changes and modify the partition schemes
commit partition change
Configure package manager. in this setup i haven’t downloaded the new package from internet.but you can select “no” for downloading
configure package manager
installing the grub.we can continue on this. it may vary depending number of hard disk present.
install grub boot loader
installation completed
installation completed
Desktop screens
Login screen
gnome 2.30.2 Desktop
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