Visual Tour: Installing Sabayon Linux Gnome

On our desktop is the icon for the Installer - so click on that

Up comes the first screen of the installer - The most important thing to do here first is click the Update Installer button, this will bring in any fixes and changes needed after initial release. Very important to do this step first, than go thru the entire install. Once that is done, select your language.

The wizard is very straight forward, follow along, most problems we see here, people don't pay attention to what they are clicking on or forget some text box that needed to be filled out, so please, double check the screen before clicking forward. So now select your keyboard layout.

Pick the desktop that you want. Read the descriptions for more details.

Here you can select to do an install or do a rescue of a previous install.

On this screen we can choose not to install a few sections. Clicking the details button shows you the packages that are included in that section.

Here we check the services that you want auto started on boot. If you want SSH on start up, make sure Secure Shell is started. As you can see I want all the services started.

Moving on to the Partition, which seems to get a lot of new people scratching their heads. You have two options, automatic and manual. If you choose automatic you will be using LVM Logical Volume Management. You will need to learn LVM if you choose this and you can read more about it by clicking here. I myself always do the manual on my main machine as it's partitions are already setup. If you are doing a manual setup, all you really need is a / and swap setup. Anything beyond that is up to you, but a / and swap is all you need, which is only 2 partitions. In this install, I will show the automatic way since I am doing this in a Virtual Machine environment.

Here you will have to make the selection as needed, for me I was working with a black disk so there was nothing on it. So I left it on remove all Linux partitions. If you have pre-existing partitions than make the appropriate choice.

A nice little warning box before committing, of course I selected Yes

Now I can see how my partitions are setup. Make any changes you want from here. You can see my LVM is roughly 10GB and making a swap of roughly 1GB and leaving the rest for my / I recommend at least do a 20GB partition.

Boot Loader options - Grub setup

Next comes the hostname - please change this to something unique or leave as is, but make sure a name is there.

Set your timezone, pretty simple, click on the map

This is probably the biggest change to the installer. You will notice when you type in your confirm password, it will automatically fill in the Administrator (root) account. You can leave it and have the same password or click in the box an change it to have better security. I don't recommend that User and Root have the same password.

Now we are ready to begin the installation

Off and running. Changes to the hard drive

Installing now, basically sit back and wait now.

Congrats! Reboot to your new installation