How to install Wolvix to a hard drive

Note! Wolvix is primarily a LiveDistro, so hard drive install is somewhat experimental.

Wolvix 1.0.5 or later comes with a hard drive installer included in the WolvixControlPanel, which makes the install process very fast and easy compared to the old manual install method. This guide will describe how to install Wolvix to your hard drive using the automated installer.



When booting the CD to do a hard drive install do not use the copy2ram or toram CheatCode.

NVIDIA users:
If you are planning to install your own NVIDIA graphics driver don't use the load=geforce CheatCode.
If you want to use the NVIDIA drivers included in Wolvix you should use the load=geforce CheatCode.

Familiarize yourself with how Linux assigns names your hard drive partitions. This is very important so you don't accidentally destroy a partition with data you'd like to keep.



Launch the Wolvix Control Panel located under System --> Wolvix Control Panel in the programs menu. Click the HD-Install tab and choose your install method, the Full Install gives you a standard hard drive install, while the Frugal Install gives a 'live operating system' installed to the hard drive, similar to the LiveCD or the USB Flash Drive install.

• The Full Install requires more space than the Frugal Install and it looses the ability to use modules. However the Full Install can use Slackware Packages∞ and will behave like a normal operating system.

Once you've decided what type of install you want, proceed with the installation as instructed by the installer. Make sure you install to the right hard drive partition, so you don't loose important data.


New root password
When Wolvix has been installed (full) to your hard drive and you've rebooted into your new system, you should change the root password. It's easily done with the passwd command:

You'll be asked to type the new password like this:

Changing password for root
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 127 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
New password:

New user account
You should also create a new user account for your Wolvix system. Using the root account is not recommended for security reasons.
To create a new user account with all the preconfigured Wolvix settings, use the newuser command. You can also use the adduser command, but that will not copy the settings and configurations to the new account.

Post install archive
To reduce the size of Wolvix, certain files has been removed from the packages it's build from. The removed files are: Documentation, headers and translations. You can add these files to your system again by adding one of the Post Install archives.∞

The archive(s) with 'FULL' in the name will provide every file that has been removed, while the one named 'DEVEL' will only provide the removed header files. Both archives (FULL and DEVEL) comes with a compiler and other packages needed to compile source code.

To "install" the archive to your system, extract it to the root of the filesystem (Not to the 'root/' directory, but to '/')
You can use the Archive Manager to do this, or with this command: (as root)

• Installing a post install archive is optional, but you need at least the 'DEVEL' archive if you want to compile from source.

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