How To Install Trisquel 9.0 Etiona

 (Trisquel 9 computer on its installation process)

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• Set Language
• Set Keyboard
• Set Network
• Set Partitioning Mode
  
• Create Partitions and Start Installing
• Set Timezone
• Set User Login
• Wait
• Finish

Preparations

1. Download Trisquel. Choose 32 bit edition if your computer is sold before 2011, or choose 64 bit instead if your computer either has 4GB RAM or comes with Windows 10.
   
2. Create Trisquel bootable USB flash drive, a medium to install the OS into your computer, by writing the ISO file into it. For this purpose, you can use Unetbootin program on Windows and Mac, or GNOME Disk Utility which is preinstalled built-in on most GNU/Linux.
   
3. Create 3 hard disk partitions by size and filesystem respectively, 500MB FAT32 and 1GB linux-swap and >=20GB EXT4 which will be EFI, SWAP, and ROOT partitions respectively. For this purpose you can use GParted Partition Editor program which is preinstalled built-in on Trisquel itself and almost all other GNU/Linux distros.
   
4. If you plan a dualboot, backup your important data from Windows partitions to external storage correctly.
5. If you plan USB flash drive instead of hard disk drive installation, I recommend you to use EXT2 instead of EXT4 filesystem.
   
6. For complete beginners, ask person with computer knowledge near you to guide you while practicing this tutorial and doing mentioned backup.
   

Booting

Plug your bootable USB in and boot your computer up into USB.

When your computer boots up, you should eventually see Trisquel 9.0 screen giving you options either to TRY or to INSTALL. Use arrow key up and down to select and press Enter to go. Select 'Try Trisquel without installing'. Continued below.

 

(Advantage of choosing TRY instead of INSTALL is that you can run other programs before doing the actual installation, like browsing your files and partitioning)

Step 1

Select English and Continue.

Step 2

Select English (US) keyboard layout and Continue.

Step 3

Unselect Download updates option and Continue.

Step 4

Select Something Else option and Continue.

Step 5

1) Creating EFI Partition:

Skip this step if your computer is BIOS Legacy not UEFI.

• 
  Select the smallest size partition you prepared.
• Click Change.
• Do not change Size:.
• Set Use As: FAT32 file system.
• Enable Format the partition if allowed.
• Set Mount point: /boot/efi
• OK

2) Creating SWAP partition:

• 
  Select the middle sized partition prepared.
• Click Change.
• Do not change Size.
• Select use as: swap area.
• Enable format file system if possible.
• OK.

3) Creating ROOT partition:

• 
  Select the largest partition prepared.
• Click Change.
• Do not change Size.
• Set Use as: EXT4 Journaling Filesystem.
  (For USB Flash Drive installation, select EXT2 Filesystem instead.)
  
• Enable Format the partition option if possible.
• Set Mount point: /
• OK.

4) Set bootloader location:

• Below the bootloader option, select /dev/sda hard disk drive if your ROOT partition is under /dev/sda too.
  
• For USB Flash Drive installation, do not set bootloader location into hard disk drive but into the USB flash drive. So if your ROOT partition is under /dev/sdb flash disk drive, then set bootloader into /dev/sdb too. 

5) Start the installation:

• Click Install Now
• Check carefully everything appeared then on screen.
• If everything in that summary is OK, no mistake found, then click Continue.

Step 7

Select your timezone by clicking one point on the map or typing your city name.

Step 8

Create user login for yourself and then co
ntinue. Here’s a convenient example:

• Username: master
• Password: master
• Hostname: master
• Login automatically: yes

Step 9

Wait for the whole process while enjoying Trisquel’s beautiful slideshow. This should not take more than about 20 minutes.

Finish

Once finished, Trisquel will say Installation Complete on screen and click Restart Now.

Final Result

Here’s Trisquel 9.0 computer ready to use.