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The Advanced Installer was forked from the Remastersys Installer a few years ago, to provide a lightweight system installer. | The Advanced Installer was forked from the Remastersys Installer a few years ago, to provide a lightweight system installer. | ||
- | The Advanced Installer is preinstalled as default, alongside the main (default) Sparky Installer (aka '[[live_installer|live-installer]]' | + | The Advanced Installer is preinstalled as default, alongside |
1. A backup installer to the main one; | 1. A backup installer to the main one; | ||
- | 2. A lightweight installer to older machines, which can't run the Python based 'live-installer'; | + | 2. A lightweight installer to older machines, which can't run main installer; |
- | 3. An additional funcionality | + | 3. Additional functionality |
It works in two modes of your choice: | It works in two modes of your choice: | ||
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or via the command line: | or via the command line: | ||
+ | sudo sparky-installer gui | ||
+ | or | ||
sudo sparkylinux-installer gui | sudo sparkylinux-installer gui | ||
2. Text mode, the Dialog based, runs via the command: | 2. Text mode, the Dialog based, runs via the command: | ||
+ | sudo sparky-installer | ||
+ | or | ||
sudo sparkylinux-installer | sudo sparkylinux-installer | ||
- | Make sure that the Advanced Installer needs a little more your attention than the Live Installer. | + | Make sure that the Advanced Installer needs a little more your attention than the main installer. |
- | 1.The first Advanced Installer window | + | 1.The first Advanced Installer window |
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If you would like to set a home directory (the next step) on separated, shared partition, **DO NOT** use the same **user nick name** as already exist in the other Linux distribution you will be sharing the home directory with. If you deleted other Linux distribution before and there still exist your old home directory - **DO NOT** use the same nick name as you had before. | If you would like to set a home directory (the next step) on separated, shared partition, **DO NOT** use the same **user nick name** as already exist in the other Linux distribution you will be sharing the home directory with. If you deleted other Linux distribution before and there still exist your old home directory - **DO NOT** use the same nick name as you had before. | ||
- | The new nick name **has to be different the before** so the home directory will get different name, so it will evoid problems after the first hard drive booting. | + | The new nick name **has to be different the before** so the home directory will get different name, so it will avoid problems after the first hard drive booting. |
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Than choose other partitions if any (home, boot, proc, media, etc.) | Than choose other partitions if any (home, boot, proc, media, etc.) | ||
- | 8. Choose a file system to be used to the **root** partition (ext4 prefered). | + | 8. Choose a file system to be used to the **root** partition (ext4 preferred). |
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- | 10. Type informations | + | 10. Type information |
* root (admin) password (twice) | * root (admin) password (twice) | ||
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- | 17 After finishing all the operations, turn off your machine, remove the live media and run your computer using just installed SparkyLinux. | + | 17. After finishing all the operations, turn off your machine, remove the live media and run your computer using just installed SparkyLinux. |
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