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1.
Go to my computer, open the USB drive. Look for file makeboot.bat.
Right click on it and select run as administrator.
A console window will open and press enter twice.
Now the USB drive is ready for installing gOS.
2.
Plug in the gOS USB drive to the netbook USB port.
As soon as Netbook is powered on press the F2 key. The Netbook BIOS screen will appear.
Use right arrow key to select the BOOT tab.
Under Boot priority order select the USB device which you copied the gOS files.
HOLD shift and "+" keys and move the USB device to the first position.
Press F10 key and press enter.
3.
The Netbook will restart and the gOS menu will come up.
Select the first option and press enter.
4.
After few minutes the gOS desktop will be loaded. The image loaded is a live image from the
USB. The changes made and files saved in this mode will be erased in the next reboot. To
install gOS to your hard drive, double click on the install icon on the desktop.
5.
The install window will popup. Select the language and click forward.
6.
In the next window you have to choose your city and time zone. You can select your city in
the world map by clicking the dots or from the pull-down menu, and then click forward.
(grouped by continent).
7.
The keyboard layout can be selected in the next window. The default (strongly recommend)
option will be USA, or you can select your own keyboard layout. You may test the new
keyboard layout in the textbox provided, and then click forward.
8.
In the next window, select the first option "Guided –use entire disk" then select your hard
drive and click forward.
9.
You will now need to choose a username and password.
Enter the Netbook owner name in the first text box.
Enter the username (This will be the root/administrator user name) for the Netbook in the
second text box. (If more user accounts need to be added, this can be done after installation).
The third and fourth text box is to enter the password and verify the password for the
username.
Once this is done click forward.
10.
Click install in the next window.
11.
gOS will now start installing on the Hard Drive
Step 2 – Installing gOS
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