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4 Starting installation of gNewSense

The installation of gNewSense is pretty much straightforward and we will not go into details with the specific steps. There is however a couple of things you need to know.

  1. You need an internet connection. The image you are currently running is a netboot, meaning it gets all its packages from online repositories. If you get any messages about troubles with the mirror then do not choose the option of changing mirrors, this will break the installation and you will need to start all over again.
  2. If you get a message about any issue with LVM, choose 'Continue', when later approached by a question about LVM, choose to install without (the first option).
  3. If you get a message about a issue with the partition table on the disk, just reboot and go over the process again. There is nothing dangerous with this message, the installer just doesn't see the partition table changes you made earlier in the installation process.

The installer will also prompt you about the GRUB bootloader, please see the next step for further instructions about GRUB.