Download the Mandriva One 2009.0 CD iso image use the quick search Engine in the top to find a good download. burn it onto a CD, and boot your computer from it. At the boot prompt, select Boot Mandriva Linux 2009:
The system will now boot into a live system from where you can install Mandriva to your hard drive. Before we can see the live desktop, we have to answer a few questions.
First, choose your language:
Accept the Mandriva license:
Select your timezone:
Select your time. Under Advanced, you can enable Automatic time synchronization (using NTP):
Select your keyboard layout:
Finally, the live desktop starts. To install Mandriva One 2009.0 to your hard drive, click on the Live Install icon:
The installation wizard starts. Click on Next:
Mandriva's default partitioning scheme is ok for our purposes, so you can select Use free space (if you want to set up your own partitioning scheme, select Custom disk partitioning instead). Afterwards the hard drive will be partitioned.
Click on Next to remove unnecessary packages from the installation:
Afterwards, the system is being installed to your hard drive. This can take a few minutes, so please be patient:
Afterwards we have to configure the bootloader. The default settings are ok, so we can click on Next:
The default boot menu entries are ok as well, so we click on Finish:
Click on Finish to complete the installation:
To use our new installation, we must reboot and remove the Mandriva CD from our CD drive. Log out of the current desktop session (System > Shut Down...), then select Restart Computer from the upcoming menu:
Afterwards, select Boot Mandriva Linux 2009 from the botloader menu (or wait a few seconds):
During the first boot, you have to select your country again:
Also during the first boot, the system is adding online repositories to its configuration:
afterwards, provide a root password and create a regular user account (e.g. falko) and click on Next:
The First Time wizard comes up. You can use it to create an account with the Mandriva user community, answer a survey, submit your hardware details to Mandriva, etc.. Click on Next:
If you don't want to submit any details, click on Decline on each of the following three screens:
This is how your new Mandriva 2009.0 desktop looks:
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