Installing

The live session

Boot the ISO from a USB stick. The live session logs in as the user anon (password voidlinux), and opens the installer by itself on ISOs that have Calamares.

With Calamares

Most ISOs include Calamares, a graphical installer. In the live session it starts on its own; if you closed it, open it again from the menu.

Calamares asks for the language, keyboard, disk and user, then installs. At the end it also:

• adds d77void’s package repository to the installed system (/etc/xbps.d/d77void-repo.conf);
• removes itself and its files from the installed system.

The keyboard layout chosen in Calamares is written for X11 (/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf). Wayland compositors read their own setting; see Where things are configured.

Without Calamares

ISOs built without Calamares use a text installer:

sudo d77void-installer

Its menu goes through keyboard, network, source, mirror, hostname, locale, time zone, root password, user account, boot loader, partitions and file systems, like Void’s own void-installer. For Source, choose Local (packages from the ISO image) to install the live system with its configuration; Network installs only Void’s base system.

After installing

d77-welcome opens on every login until you press Don’t show this again. Use it to set the root password, update the system and install common software; see Updating and installing software.

Then read the page of your variant to learn its shortcuts.