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- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
-
- <title>The Mageia Installer</title>
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- <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Installation with DrakX">
- <link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Installation with DrakX">
- <link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="Installation with DrakX">
- <link rel="next" href="selectLanguage.html" title="Choosing your Language"><style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" type="text/css">
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- <div lang="" class="section" title="The Mageia Installer">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h2 class="title"><a name="drakx-intro"></a>The Mageia Installer
- </h2>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
-
- <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakx-intro-it1"></a>
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa1"></a>With the <span class="application">DrakX</span>
- installation program, it doesn't matter whether you're a newbie or
- a <span class="application">GNU/Linux</span> guru. The job of <span class="application">DrakX</span> is to provide you with a
- smooth installation and an easy transition to <span class="application">Mageia</span>'s
- latest version.
- </p>
-
-
-
-
- <div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
- <table border="0" summary="Tip">
- <tr>
- <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Tip]" src="tip.png"></td>
- <th align="left">Tip</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" valign="top">
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa2"></a><span class="application">DrakX</span> will work
- best if all of your hardware is connected to your computer and
- powered on during the installation. Printers, modems, scanners and
- joysticks are just a few examples of peripherals which <span class="application">DrakX</span>
- can automatically detect and configure as <span class="application">Mageia</span> is being
- installed.
- </p>
-
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
-
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa3"></a>The first screen you see
- offers to run the installation with special options if the standard
- mode was not suited for your hardware. So to begin with, let the
- installation start automatically with no options. If something goes
- wrong, see <a class="xref" href="intro.html#drakx-options" title="Installation Options">the section called &#8220;Installation Options&#8221;</a>.
- </p>
-
-
- <div class="section" title="The Installation Process">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e29"></a>The Installation Process
- </h3>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa8"></a>When the installer
- starts, you will see a nice graphical interface (see <a class="xref" href="selectLanguage.html#selectLanguage-fig" title="Figure&nbsp;3.&nbsp;Choosing the Default Language">Figure&nbsp;3, &#8220;Choosing the Default
- Language&#8221;</a>). On the left will be the various
- installation steps. The installation will occur in two phases:
- installation, then configuration. The list on the left displays
- all the steps. The current step is marked by a highlighted
- bullet.
- </p>
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa9"></a>Each step may present
- various screens. Surfing between those screens is made possible
- through the <span class="guibutton">Next</span> and
- <span class="guibutton">Previous</span> buttons. Additionally an
- <span class="guibutton">Advanced</span> button may be available to show more
- advanced configuration options. Note that most of the latter should
- only be used by <span class="emphasis"><em>expert</em></span> users. But there's no
- harm in looking at them!
- </p>
-
-
- <div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
- <table border="0" summary="Tip">
- <tr>
- <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Tip]" src="tip.png"></td>
- <th align="left">Tip</th>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td align="left" valign="top">
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa10"></a>The
- <span class="guibutton">Help</span> button will display explanations
- concerning the current installation step.
- </p>
-
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- </div>
-
- </div>
-
-
- <div class="section" title="Installation Options">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="drakx-options"></a>Installation Options
- </h3>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
-
-
- <p><a name="drakx-pa3a"></a>If something goes wrong during
- the first installation attempt, pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>F1</strong></span> at the
- welcome screen (see <a class="xref" href="intro.html#dx-welcome" title="Figure&nbsp;1.&nbsp;Very First Installation Welcome Screen">Figure&nbsp;1, &#8220;Very First Installation Welcome
- Screen&#8221;</a>) will open a help
- window (see <a class="xref" href="intro.html#dx-help" title="Figure&nbsp;2.&nbsp;Available Installation Options">Figure&nbsp;2, &#8220;Available Installation Options&#8221;</a>). Here are some useful options
- to choose from:
- </p>
-
-
-
-
- <div class="itemizedlist"><a name="dx-help-options"></a><ul class="itemizedlist">
- <li class="listitem">
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa4"></a><code class="literal">vgalo</code>: <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakx-intro-it2"></a>if you tried a default
- installation and didn't see the graphical interface (see <a class="xref" href="selectLanguage.html#selectLanguage-fig" title="Figure&nbsp;3.&nbsp;Choosing the Default Language">Figure&nbsp;3, &#8220;Choosing the Default
- Language&#8221;</a>), you can try to run the
- installation in low resolution mode. This happens with certain
- types of video cards. With <span class="application">Mageia</span> you are given a number
- of options to work around problems related to older hardware. To
- try the installation in low resolution mode, type
- <strong class="userinput"><code>vgalo</code></strong> at the prompt.
- </p>
-
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa5"></a><code class="literal">text</code>: <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakx-intro-it3"></a>if your video card is very
- old and the graphical installation doesn't work at all, you can
- always choose to install in text mode. Since all video cards can
- display text, this is the <span class="quote">&#8220;<span class="quote">last resort</span>&#8221;</span> kind of
- installation. However don't worry: it's unlikely that you will
- need this option.
- </p>
-
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa6"></a><code class="literal">noauto</code>: <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakx-intro-it4"></a>in some rare cases, your
- <span class="hardware">PC</span> may appear to freeze or lock up during the hardware
- detection phase. If that happens, adding the word
- <code class="literal">noauto</code> as a parameter will tell the
- installation program to bypass hardware detection. With that
- option <span class="application">DrakX</span> won't scan for hardware. Therefore you will
- need to manually specify hardware parameters later in the
- installation process. The <code class="literal">noauto</code> parameter can
- be added to the previous modes, so depending on your hardware you
- may have to specify <strong class="userinput"><code>vgalo noauto</code></strong> to
- perform a low-resolution graphical installation without
- <span class="application">DrakX</span> performing a hardware scan.
- </p>
-
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
-
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakx-intro-pa7"></a><code class="literal">kernel
- options</code>: <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakx-intro-it6"></a>most machines don't
- require specific kernel options. Due to bugs in the design
- or in the <span class="application">BIOS</span>, there have been a few cases of
- motherboards incorrectly reporting the amount of memory
- installed. If you need to manually specify the amount of
- <acronym class="acronym">RAM</acronym>
- installed in your <span class="hardware">PC</span>, use the
- <span class="command"><strong>mem=xxxM</strong></span> parameter. For example, to
- start the installation in normal mode with a computer
- containing 256&nbsp;<acronym class="acronym">MB</acronym> of memory, your command line
- would look like <strong class="userinput"><code>linux
- mem=256M</code></strong></p>
-
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
- </div>
-
- </div>
- </body>
-</html>