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CAELinux 2007 Installation guide
J. Cugnoni, www.caelinux.com, 2007 This guide is intended to help you start and install CAELinux 2007 on your computer. CAELinux 2007 is distributed as a liveDVD, which means that you can run all the softwares by simply booting from the DVD. But for enhanced performance and customization, it is highly recommended to use a native installation of CAELinux on yourhard disk. This guide presents two installation scenarios: A) installation of CAELinux 2007 on an empty hard disk B) installation of CAELinux 2007 in dual-boot with Windows Please note that CAELinux is a customization of the excellent PCLinuxOS distribution. For more details and documentation on PCLinuxOS, please visit www.pclinuxos.com. If you like CAELinux, we also encourage you to support theefforts of the PCLinuxOS development community with a small donation. CAELinux would not have been so good without their great contribution!

Starting CAELinux 2007 from the LiveDVD
In all cases, you will need to start CAELinux 2007 in liveDVD mode before you can try the tutorials or install the linux distribution to you hard disk. To use the liveDVD, you will have to insert the DVD in your driveand restart your computer to start your PC from the DVD drive (please note that DVD drives are usually called CD-ROM in the BIOS...). Depending on your type of BIOS & boot options, booting the computer from the DVD may or may not be the default choice. If starting from the DVD is not automatic, you will need to change the Boot settings in your BIOS. To do it, enter the BIOS when the computerstarts; depending on you computer, you will need to press F1, F2, F8, or DEL (see your computer manuals for more details). Then in BOOT options, put your DVD drive at the top of the priority list.

One recent computers, you may also find an option to display a “Boot device selection menu” which allows you to simply select which media you would like to boot at computer startup. When the computerboots from the DVD, you will see this 'Start up menu':

By default, the system will start in the “LiveCD” mode, but if you experience problems, you can also try to boot in “VideoSafeModeVesa” (uses the generic VESA driver to circumvent graphic card compatibility problems) or “MediaCheck” (checks if the DVD media has some errors before starting the system). The other options should be used only incritical cases.

So now press Enter to start the system in LiveCD mode; you will then see the startup screen:

If you would like to have more information about the boot process & possible messages, just press ESC to activate “verbose” mode:

When the system has succesfully started, you will see the initial configuration wizard. In this first window, select your preferred keyboard layout &click Next.

Now select a city near your place (for time zone selection).

Now select or adjust the time settings.

In the next part of the configuration wizard, you have the opportunity to setup network & interface parameters. If you do not want to configure the network at this stage, just press “Cancel”. To go on in the setup of the network, select a type of network connection for internetaccess, for example Ethernet.

Select the network interface to configure:

And choose between Automatic (DHCP) or manual IP configuration. If you don't kn ow your IP address settings, it probably means that DHCP is the right choice (to be used with ADSL routers for example).

In this next page, you will need to define the settings for DNS & hostname. If you selected DHCP before, it isprobably a good choice to use also DHCP to configure

the DNS. CAUTION: be sure to uncheck 'assign host name from DHCP' and to define host name = localhost

Using these settings, all the included softwares will work without any manual change of their settings (some CAE application are designed to work in a well defined network environment!!). Finally, click twice on Next to activate the network...