vora_bat, I followed the project last half a year or a year and now be sitting with this OS, tested and shared experiences, if not for one thing. I have tried just about to translate the instructions Custom installation SteamOS and feel the beginning of problems for another 4 point and ran into his knowledge (ignorance?) English 6 (taught English at the LycГ©e / College, was a French English purely automatic spoken -. Glued to the Internet, games , movies):
The second method is based on the Debian installer system
1. Download the file SteamOS beta of Custom installation
2. Unzip the file on formatted FAT32 USB drive.
3. Insert the USB drive into a computer, on which want to establish SteamOS. Turn on the computer and enter the BIOS startup from the USB drive
4. Make sure that you select the UEFI boot mode. If you choose not to UEFI, you want to include support for UEFI in the BIOS settings.
5. Select the automatic installation menu
6. The rest of the installation is unattended and will repartition the drive and install SteamOS. (The first time I realized that it is not very precisely understand what it was about and got into a translator Google, but also porridge obtained there did not give me an exact idea what the meaning My feeling is -. Next you need to choose which section to put steamos, but it It can be, and that alone will make ustanovochnik repartishn disk and thereby erase all your personal data and other OSes)
7. After the installation log in (using the Gnome session) using the preset "steam" account. Password "steam". Run Steam, accept the agreement and let it boot up. Log out of your Steam. (Not really sure I understand this point, you need to see to understand)
8. Log in using the account "desktop". Password "desktop".
9. In the terminal, run ~ / post_logon.sh. When required - enter "desktop" password. This script will perform post-installation configuration, remove yourself and reboot to the utility of creating the recovery partition.
10. Podstverdite pressing the "Y" to continue, and the recovery partition will be created. When you finish it, reboot into your installed SteamOS.
What I strained? To start with step 4. I have an old mother's card and I do not have her UEFI. Personally, I have always believed that the UEFI BIOS is needed as a replacement, it allows you to partition the hard disk to GPT and has a slightly different mechanism for transferring the operating system boot. This is all very well, but I never thought that the UEFI
would needto install and easy BIOS will not do. Perhaps just the same simple BIOS can do, but it will require some manual changes and further action. In the coming days will be in the evening to google on this topic on the forums, I hope soon to find information.
Well, and the second - paragraph 6. I do not quite understand whether there will be in my hands partitioning, or ustanovochnik pererazobot my HDD as He wills, and I will remain without files and partitions. On this subject, I will also ask Google evenings and wait until there are experimenters who are also interested in this question. If someone speaks good English and can answer unequivocally about paragraph 6 - I will be grateful.
With regard to paragraph 6, does not give rest not only a very clear statement in English, but also a warning Valve:
WARNING: Both installation methods will erase all content on the target computer
Which roughly translates as "CAUTION: Both the installation method will erase all data on the computer." Here also think after this, there will be in your hands HDD partition.
sneres what is meant by "comforted"?
Post has been editedHellsingoff - 14.12.13, 19:58