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How to install MX Linux Below are some of the minimum system requirements
needed by the MX Linux.
A minimum of 512 MB RAM.
At least AMD or intel 1486 5GB of hard disk space
If your system meets the above minimum requirements, then you can go ahead and download MX Linux’s
latest ISO image.
Step 1: Download MX Linux Before installing MX Linux, the first thing
we need is an ISO image.
A point to note is that you should understand the nature of your hardware to choose a suitable
operating system.
This ranges between (32-bit or 64-bit) so that you don’t download an incompatible
ISO file.
Note: Are you looking for a place to download the image?
MX ISO download has all you need to get your system-compatible images.
Step 2: Installing VMware After downloading the ISO image compatible
with your system, we can now start up our VMware workstation for those who already have
it.
Nonetheless, if you have not installed it, you can visit the official VMware download
to get your system-compatible VMware workstation.
Note: Those users who prefer virtual box over VMware can install the virtual box by following
our other article installing the virtual box on MX Linux.
Step 3: Running VMware workstation and creating MX Linux VM
Open your VMware workstation: Upon opening your VMware workstation, you will see a New
Virtual Wizard.
You will go with the typical(recommended) configuration type.
Thereafter, click on the ‘Next’ button.
2.
In this section, you will see a guest operating system installation selection.
We will select the “Use ISO image” option.
At the end of the “Use ISO image” is a browse option that will allow you to select
your ISO image.
After selecting the image, click on the “next” button.
Select the type of your ISO file.
In our case, we will select Linux.
Thereafter, click on the “Next” button.
In the next window, you will be allowed to name your virtual machine.
For our case, we will leave it in default.
After that, click on the “Next” button to proceed to the next step.
Next, you will see a disk sizing window, where you will select how large you want your virtual
machine to run on your hard disk.
As for us, we will go with 20GB.
Thereafter, click on the “Next” button.
6.
In this window, you will see the ready to create a virtual machine, which is the last
option of creating our virtual machine.
To complete the setup, click on the finish button.
7.
At the end, you will see “Virtual machine created successfully,” which shows your
machine has been configured well.
Here you will click on the “close” button, where your machine will automatically boot
up.
Step 4: Start MX Linux VM Once the machine successfully boots up, you
will see such a boot menu.
Here, you will click on the first option (MX-21×64, and the setup progress window like the one
shown below will appear.
2.
Thereafter, you will see an MX Welcome window that says, “Welcome to MX Linux, a fast,
friendly, and stable OS loaded with amazing tools and supported by a great community.
Here, you will click on the “close” button to go to the OS’s desktop.
Step 5: Starting installation Once you get such a live screen of the OS,
click on the installer icon on the desktop to initiate the installation process.
Step 6: Keyboard layout After clicking the installer icon, a keyboard
layout window will appear.
Here, we recommend that you don’t alter anything since the installer will automatically
set the keyboard layout for you.
Just click on the “Next” button to proceed.
Step 7: Encryption option The next window is a “Rearrange disk partition(optional)
“. Beneath it is a “modify options” with the Run partition tool.
Below modify partitions, you will see a select type of installation with two options (Auto-install
using entire disk and encrypt), but since our article focuses on the MX install with
disk encryption, we will check the encrypt option.
After checking the encrypt button, encryption password and confirm password input fields
will appear.
Upon creating your encryption password and confirming it, hit the “Next” button to
proceed.
Step 8: Choose partitions In this section, you will specify the root
and swap partitions you need.
If you need to create a separate partition for your home directory, you need to specify
it here.
However, you can leave /home to be set as your root.
If you select the Auto-install using the entire disk in the encryption section, you will not
see the above window.
Precautions: The user’s /home folder will be inside the
same root partition where MX is being installed.
It is a precautionary measure to set your home folder in a different partition than
that of the (/root).
This is to act as a safety measure if there is a problem with the installation partition
or a total replacement of the installation partition because your users’ settings will
not be tampered with.
Unless you are using encryption or you are well aware of what you are doing, leave your
boot set to root like in our case.
Preferences: You can check the “preserve data in /home”
if you are upgrading and already have some existing data in the home partition.
This option is not generally recommended because of the risk of incompatibility between the
old installation and the new installation.
Nonetheless, this option is quite useful in situations such as repairing an installation.
Do you want to carry out a scan for physical defects on the hard drive during formatting?
If yes, select the “check for bad blocks” to achieve this.
Alternatively, you can change the label of the partition of your installation location,
for instance(to “rootMX-29 Installation Test)
Another preference is that you can select the type of file system to use on your hard
drive.
The system comes with ext4 as the default, which is highly recommended in MX Linux if
you have no particular choice.
To finalize, you can make use of the “Advanced Encryption Settings” button at the bottom
to fine-tune your cipher settings, or you can go with the default like in our case.
Step 9: Copying the main system As the main system is being copied to your
hard drive, you can go ahead and click on the “Next” button to clear some additional
configuration info that is vital in system encryption.
Step 10: Computer network names Upon clicking the “Next” button, you will
receive the Computer Network Names window that will allow you to change the computer
name and computer domain.
However, many users will love to go with the defaults, and there is nothing wrong with
that.
Better still, you can use any of your preferred names like in our case; we will go with “runboxing.”
After that, click on the “Next” button to proceed.
Step 11: Samba server If you are not going to host shared network
folders on your computer, you can disable samba.
This does not affect your PC’s ability to access shares hosted elsewhere on your network.
Step 12: Localization defaults After that, the next window will allow you
to change the location and time.
Step 13: MX Linux dialog installer After that, a dialog box from the MX Linux
Installer saying “OK to format and use the entire disk(sda) for MX Linux?”
will pop up.
Here, you will select the yes button.
Step 14: Common services Once you are through with that step, you will
be directed to the services window.
Here, we recommend you use the default settings offered to you.
Additionally, you can change these settings once you have booted into Xfce.
Are you asking yourself what services are?
Services are just applications and functions associated with the kernel, and they provide
abilities for upper-level processes.
In case you are not familiar with a service, we recommend that you leave it on defaults.
Step 15: User account In the User Configuration section, which is
next, you will be allowed to set the passwords of your PC.
Your PC’s security depends on the type of password you set here.
If you check the Auto-login option, you can bypass the login screen and even speed up
the boot process.
The flaw of this choice is that anyone who can access your PC will log in directly into
your account without being requested to enter any authentication info, which is not a good
thing.
Nonetheless, you can change this option if you used it in the setup by going to the “Options”
tab of the MX User Manager.
You can also transfer any of the changes you make to your Live desktop.
You can get this by checking the last box named “Save live desktop changes.”
Step 16: Installation complete After the system completes copying all the
required info, an installation screen with “Installation Complete” will appear, and
you will be good to go.
Step 17: Bypassing the reboot option Another procedure that many people like bypassing
is the reboot process after completing the installation.
For those who don’t want to reboot their system after completing the installation,
you can uncheck the automatic reboot option before clicking the “Finish” button.
Step 18: The login MX Linux Upon opening up the system, a login window
will be displayed; here, you will enter the default user password you created while setting
up MX Linux, and you can now start using this incredible encrypted Linux distro.
After typing in your password, an interactive active desktop environment will be displayed,
such as the screen shown below.
Final Thought
The video has gone through many sections that will aid in the installation of the OS with
disk encryption.
First, we took a quick overview of what MX Linux OS is.
After that, we looked at the installation process plus the disk encryption, which was
the article’s key point.
To this far, we hope the article has covered a lot in terms of installing this software
with disk encryption that you should be aware of by now.
Have you tried installing this OS with disk encryption?
If yes, how are you getting along with it?
Please feel free to share with us in the comment section below.
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