A walk through the installation of windows xp and the gos on your computer.
Step 1:First download the gOS image from this page and burn it onto a cd
Step 2:You require a minimum of 2 partitions one for XP and the other for gOS do not create a partition for gOS now leave the space in which you want to install gOS un partioned , you may want to have some more partitions to organize your other files. Partition your hard disk in a way thats most convenient to you and install windows xp in your first partition.
Step 3:Once the installation of xp is complete reboot your computer with the cd you burned in the first step. Your screen will look like this at this point
Step 4: O n the above screen press f4 to select your screen resolution ( The resolution you use in xp or the ideal resolution for your monitor ). Once you selected the proper resolution select start or installing gOS and press enter. Your screen will look like this now. gOS takes between 5-10 minutes to boot ( I haven’t measured this actually) . There is nothing for you to do at this stage you can have a cup of coffee and enjoy the beautiful view of the boot screen.
Once your gOS boots your desktop should look like this. It has a very clean look. Overall, I am impressed. It is running Enlightenment instead of KDE or Gnome.
Step 5: To start the installation process click on the install icon on the top, this should bring up this screen. Select your language and click forward. The install procedure is very simple and you don’t have many options to choose, you should try very hard to screw up the installation 
Step 6: Select your time zone and click forward
Step 7: This is the step very you have to be very carefull if you screw this you will end up in loosing all the data on your hard disk including the windows xp you installed. Select the manual option and on the next screen select free space on your disk and and create an new partition in it with ext3 file system leave some space for the swap ( twice your ram). Now click on the free space you left and select new partition and then select swap.Now click the forward button
Step 8: Now you are asked for the user name , password and computer name. Enter them and click forward. Now you will get a screen like the one shown below click install on it.
Step 9: You have nothing to do in this step just sit back and relax. The screen during the installation looks like the one below
Step 10: Once you are don with the install process it will ask if you want to restart the computer or continue using the live cd. Click restart and remove the cd from your hard drive and when your computer reboots your new gOS is ready to be used.
gOS boot screen:
gOS login screen:
Screen shot of the gOS desktop
Good luck
More screen shots to added very soon. if you have any problems installing please feel free to drop them in the comments here
I install gos already and need to install windows xp. What do i need to do?
Where is the link for burning the iso file? You write “First download the gOS image from this page and burn it onto a cd”. I am not seeing the download link. Please send me the download link. Thanks
Will gOS run on Microsoft Virtual PC?
Reply through my email please
@athul
you have to burn the image to a DVD, then change your boot preferences in your BIOS to boot your computer from your DVD drive ( try F2 or F11 to get into your BIOS) that way your computer will load the operating system on the DVD instead of the operating system you have on your harddrive. From the DVD operating environment, you can then install Gos.
i have installed them both,but when the computer reboot,it go directly into gOs,how can i go to windows!There does not have a menu to go into windows,can anyone help me?
re install the grub
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
Hi Mathew,
Well caldera is another distro ( linux) and it has nothing to do with GOS.
You can change the boot in your bios to start from usb or cdrom. then it should work.
You seem to have a computer that can boot from usb mine didnt, i had to burn so many cds till i installed since it was keep telling me could not get file from cdrom..
nash
Hope you can help me out,
My computer recently crashed and I had been wanting to try Gos anyways. After burning the gos_space.iso file to a dvd using the nero program on another computer, I inserted the disk into my computer and booted. However, after Caldera DR-DOS loads it apparently freezes and says search for USB HDD Devices. I’m frustrated because one I was looking forward to trying a linux program and two I was told that Gos required nothing more than a computer. So I tried booting the disk in another computer that still works fine. This time I was held up at a DR-DOS command prompt A:\. What’s going on, I followed the directions?
Thanks guys,
Hi satish
I have a few questions.
Do I need to have win xp previously installed? n why?
How Gos deal with my devices such as audio, video, network, drivers and etc. does it recognize it automatically or does it need the XP for that?
Could Gos runs without xp at all?
is it faster than XP? I am very interested pls advice
Thanks Man
You should select G dvd writer. Image recorder is to record the image to the hard drive.
I hope this helps, feel free to drop in here if you still face any problems
IN nero when i clicked on tht non extracted file gos it opened a window showing current recorder & disk type
in current recorder which should i select is it image recorder or G dvd writer
Hello athul,
You should not extract the files, Just burn the entire ISO file you downloaded on to a cd as a bootable cd using nero or any other cd burning software and then boot your computer with this cd. You can install gOS in windows using vmware. Let me know if you want a tutorial on how to use vmware.
Good Luck
i EXTRACTED THE GOS FILE IMAGE
iN WHICH FILE IS THE INSTALLER
CAN I OPEN THE INSTALLER THROUGH WINDOWS
WILL IT WORK IF I EXTRACTED THE FILES & BURN ON A CD
hi frix
Thanks for the support
For Chris:
i did my partition with 10Go and it’s perfectly ok!
i installed VMware player then i’m trying to install my gOs now on it. Everything’s done perfectly except that it’s asking me a user name! i put the one of my computer running under window….no way, then i put the one i put to downloded VMware…no!
so now i’m in trouble!
Plz Help
Thx in advance
I don’t get how to install it.
I already have XP installed.
Am I going to have to redo
it so I can make 2 partitions?
How big do the partitions have
to be?