Make sure your PC supports booting from CD (if not there is a boot floppy that you can download from yT - look in the booklet). When booting the cd you will see the Bootloader from ZETA 1.0 that similar's the one from BeOS R5 (not so surprising seeing that it is based upon BeOS). And in a short time you will be presented with the next step.

Now you will see a screen that presents you a way to change your language (ZETA supports up to 25 languages up to now).  Choose your language and the you have to agree with the EULA. All standard procedure and very straightforward.

After the EULA you get a chance to choose the destination on where to install ZETA 1.0. If you have a new hd/pc with no other Operating System this is very easy and you only have to mark the option "Use entire disk"  to use the whole disk. If on the other hand you have more then one partition already on the hard disk you will have a chance to select the partition to install too, resize the partition or use the whole partition.  This works perfectly here (I've try'd several installs on different pc's/laptop's - no error reported so far).

A standard install for ZETA takes up to 1GB of hard disk space, so you better take at least a partition of 5GB to install ZETA too, making sure that you have some room left to install additional software later. The installation itself takes about 10 to 30 minutes to install here (on different hardware). If you use the standard install you'll get almost all the app's included on the cd, but you will see that you don't need all of those (removing app's is mostly just a matter of deleting the app folder in /boot/apps/*) and removing the link in the ZETA menu (for some app's you'll find a settings file that can be deleted in the /boot/home/config/settings folder). You can make you own selection on witch app's to install though, just click "Custom Install" instead and unmark the items you don't want to install. In custom install you will be presented with the list of all the app's  with a short description and a screenshot. The description only gives you a brief info on the app itself (but should do well enough to inform you of the app's capabilities), a few screenshots and descriptions are missing here (this is depending on the language selected in the install - I try'd the English first and then the dutch one later - seems the dutch is more uptodate :-] ). Experimental drivers are included but they can be installed at a later time. Once you are finished selecting you only have to click "Install" to start the actual installation (witch resizes partitions initiates them as BeFS).

After the installation is finished (depending on the speed of your pc - on my P4 2.4Ghz this was about 5 minutes) you'll be presented with the installation of the bootmanager (same as in BeOS R5 so for those used to work with R5 there should be no problem). The bootloader is capable of booting almost any known system, they only need to have their system files installed in the root partition (like for linux you will need to install lilo/grub onto the root for the linux install). You will be presented with the partitions found on the hard disk(s), and you can change the names according to the system they represent.

When you installed the bootmanager and rebooted the pc/laptop you will see the bootmanager on startup letting you choose witch OS to startup. Choosing ZETA will get you to the bootloader and you will see the icon's light up until you will boot into ZETA. The first time the system will set the mime-types so this can take a few seconds, after that you'll get a pdf document with some ZETA essentials and the Preferences panel for screen resolution. This is the heart of the system to change/set your preferences. Setup your screen resolutions to your likings and you are able to run the system.