Latest revision as of 19:54, 19 March 2012

Installation of Pardus 2008/2009/2011 on a Netbook

Introduction

This is a manual about the installation of Pardus 2009/2011 on a Netbook computer.

As these computers don't have a CD reader we can't use the regular method as described in this or this manual.

Therefore we have to use a new method.

• Pay extra attention to the selection of the Bootloader, choose to install it on the netbook hard disk and not on the USB device.

Installation using a USB device for Pardus 2009.2 and all later versions

There are three methods to make the bootable USB device.

Method 1 (for Pardus 2009.1/2009.2 and 2011 users)

Adding Repository (if not already configured in Packet Manager)

Pardus 2011

Add the following source to your Package Manager

For i686:
Name: pardususer.de
Address: http://pakete.pardususer.de/http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/i686/pisi-index.xml.xz

in console with: sudo pisi ar pardususer.de http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/i686/pisi-index.xml.xz -y

For x86_64:
Name: pardususer.de
Address: http://pakete.pardususer.de/http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/x86_64/pisi-index.xml.xz

in console with: sudo pisi ar pardususer.de http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2011/x86_64/pisi-index.xml.xz -y

Pardus 2009

Add the following source to your Package Manager

Name: pardususer.de
Address: http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2009/pisi-index.xml.bz2

in console with: sudo pisi ar pardususer.de http://pakete.pardususer.de/pardus-2009/pisi-index.xml.bz2 -y

Installation

Isowriter can now be installed in Package Manager (after doing a "Show Upgradable Packages").

Writing USB device

1. Start Isowriter (from Utilities).

2. Select Iso (hybrid) file at [1], USB device (stick/SD card) at [2] and activate [3].

3. Progress is shown at [4] and the end of a successful transfer at [5].

4. Usb device is now ready for use.

5. Restart your computer from the USB device (BIOS settings) and follow the manual: Installing Pardus 2011

Method 2 (for Linux and Windows)

For Linux users

For this graphical method we are going to use and download Mandriva Seed 2010 (mandriva-seed.sh) from >here<.

In Dolphin right-click on the downloaded file mandriva-seed.sh > Properties > Permissions > put a mark at "Is executable" > OK

Users of Pardus 2011 should also install the package libpng12 from >pardususer.de<.

Start mandriva-seed.sh by selecting the file or in konsole with the command ./mandriva-seed.sh

Follow the numbers [1].. in the picture and at the end [8] the bootable USB device is ready for use.

Although 'Live CD' is shown, it is also possible to make an USB device from an installation.iso when selecting the appropriate .iso file at [2].

Restart your computer from the USB device (BIOS settings) and follow the manual: Installing Pardus 2011

For Windows users

Windows users should download the file mandriva-seed-windows.zip from >HERE< or >HERE<.

After unzipping the downloaded file, start mandriva-seed.exe which is inside the directory mandriva-seed.

Follow the numbers [1].. in the picture and at the end [8] the bootable USB device is ready for use.

Although 'Live CD' is shown, it is also possible to make an USB device from an installation.iso when selecting the appropriate .iso file at [2].

Restart your computer from the USB device (BIOS settings) and follow the manual: Installing Pardus 2011

Method 3 (for Linux users)

1. Insert the USB device (min. 1GB), open a Konsole and get the device ID:

 ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*

Example:

ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 jan 19 15:20 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_Flash_Disk_00e0dda2117692-0:0 -> ../../sdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 jan 19 15:20 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_2.0_Flash_Disk_00e0dda2117692-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdc1

This is a device with a part1 partition and identified by sdc (in this example).

Don't forget that the partition part1 (and its content) will be destroyed.

2. Check for the iso file:

ls

Example:

ls
Pardus-International-2009.2-Geronticus-eremita.iso

3. Write the iso to the USB device (where X stands for the device ID of your USB device):

dd if=filename of=/dev/sdX bs=4M

Example:

dd if=Pardus-International-2009.2-Geronticus-eremita.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M
171+1 records in
171+1 records out
718274560 bytes (718 MB) copied, 443.896 s, 1.6 MB/s

That's all and the device is ready.

4. Restart your computer from the USB device (BIOS settings) and follow the manual: Installing Pardus 2009

Installation using a USB device for Pardus 2008 and 2009 (not applicable for 2009.1 and higher)

For this manual we need ~700MB free space on a USB drive. A 1GB USB drive is large enough to do the job. The program UNetbootin is used to make the USB drive.

Downloading and installation of UNetbootin

1. Download the newest version of UNetbootin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin (at this moment: unetbootin-linux-372)
2. Make this file executable by Rightclick > Properties > Permissions > mark at "Is executable" > OK.
3. In Pardus 2008 open the file unetbootin-linux-... to start the program (it will ask for the root password).
4. In Pardus 2009 create a link or Menu entry to the file unetbootin-linux-... and set a mark at Advanced options > Run as a different user.

Making the USB drive

Required partition

The free partition on the drive must be of the type FAT32 . You can use GParted to create this. The value of the bootflag isn't important .

Transferring files to the USB drive

1. It is necessary to mount the USB drive and check the mounting point.
2. Start UNetbootin and select [1] the required .iso file.
3. Check the Drive [2] and start transferring the files with OK [3].
4. At the end Exit UNetbootin.

Making the required change

1. Open the file syslinux.cfg on the USB drive in KWrite and add

    mudur=language:en,livedisk

   as shown in the image
2. Save change and close KWrite.

The USB drive is now ready for use.

Other languages

For other languages add:

Installation of Pardus 2008 when using the USB version

1. Change the bios of the computer to make it bootable from the USB drive.
2. Because the Language selection screen will not appear, follow the manual Installing Pardus 2008 beginning at chapter License.
3. Pay extra attention to the selection of the Bootloader. Check at Setup overview in order to have it installed at the right place (/dev/sda).

Fonts

There is a chance that the fonts are to big, if thats the case you need to add the following to your xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
  Option    "NoDDC"
EndSection
     Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize 271 159 # Sets the correct DPI (96 x 96)
EndSection

This will set the correct dpi.

Installation of Pardus 2009 when using the USB version

1. Change the bios of the computer to make it bootable from the USB drive or use the "Boot Menu" option (if available).
2. Because the Language selection screen will not appear, follow the manual Installing Pardus 2009 beginning at chapter License.
3. It is important that at the Bootloader screen the option "Selected disk below" is used, in order to prevent making the stick unusable for the next steps. (installing bootloader on the stick)
4. It is very well possible that the bootloader GRUB isn't installed in the appropriate hard disk/partition despite showing "/dev/sda" in Setup overview.
5. If the above is happening and to correct this after the installation has finished, start again from the USB.
6. And follow the instructions from the manual Restore Grub without a new installation of Pardus.

Thanks

Thanks to http://tr.pardus-wiki.org/NASIL:USB_bellekten_bilgisayara_Pardus_kurmak

Installation using an external CD/DVD drive

My solution for this moment is, (after installation) restart again from USB. You can use a USB CD/DVD drive and follow the regular method linked above. Provided that the bios is set-up to boot the computer from the external drive, this procedure should be relatively easy.