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-rw-r--r--installer.html185
-rw-r--r--uninstall-Mageia.html81
4 files changed, 250 insertions, 167 deletions
diff --git a/Select-and-use-ISOs.html b/Select-and-use-ISOs.html
index 6ea7e80..d2d97ba 100644
--- a/Select-and-use-ISOs.html
+++ b/Select-and-use-ISOs.html
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
- <p>We call a media here a ISO image file that allows to install
- and/or update Mageia and by extension any physical support where the ISO
- file is copied.
+ <p>Here, a medium (plural: media) is an ISO image file that allows you to install
+ and/or update Mageia and by extension any physical support the ISO
+ file is copied to.
</p>
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>They use the traditional installer called drakx.</p>
+ <p>These ISOs use the traditional installer called drakx.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -134,15 +134,15 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Each DVD contains any available desktop environments and
+ <p>Each DVD contains many available desktop environments and
languages.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>You'll be given the choice during the installation to add or
- not non free software.
+ <p>You'll be given the choice during the installation to add
+ non free software.
</p>
</li>
@@ -168,19 +168,19 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Both architectures are present on the same media, the choice
+ <p>Both architectures are present on the same medium, the choice
is made automatically according to the detected CPU.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Xfce desktop only.</p>
+ <p>Uses Xfce desktop only.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Some languages only (be, bg, ca, de, en, es, fr, it, mk, pl,
+ <p>Not all languages are available. (be, bg, ca, de, en, es, fr, it, mk, pl,
pt, ru, sv, uk) TO BE CHECKED!
</p>
@@ -226,22 +226,22 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Can be used to preview the distribution without first
- installing it on a HDD, and optionally install Mageia on your
- HDD.
+ <p>Can be used to preview the distribution without installing it on
+ a HDD, and optionally install Mageia on to your HDD.
+
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>ISO contains only one desktop environment (KDE or
+ <p>Each ISO contains only one desktop environment (KDE or
GNOME).
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>They contains non free software.</p>
+ <p>They contain non free software.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>32 bits only.</p>
+ <p>32 bit only.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>32 bits only.</p>
+ <p>32 bit only.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -404,11 +404,11 @@
</div>
- <div class="section" title="Boot-only CDs media">
+ <div class="section" title="Boot-only CD media">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e109"></a>Boot-only CDs media
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e109"></a>Boot-only CD media
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -433,24 +433,25 @@
<li class="listitem">
<p>Each one is a small image that contains no more than that
- which is needed to start the drakx installer and find the ISO file
- to continue and complete the install. These ISO files may be on
- the PC hard disk, on a local drive, on a local network or on the
+ which is needed to start the drakx installer and find
+ drakx-installer-stage2 and other packages that are needed to
+ continue and complete the install. These packages may be on the
+ PC hard disk, on a local drive, on a local network or on the
Internet.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>These media are very light (less than 100 Mo) and are
- convenient when bandwidth is too low to download a full DVD, PC
- without DVD drive or PC that can't boot on a USB stick.
+ <p>These media are very light (less than 100 MB) and are
+ convenient when bandwidth is too low to download a full DVD, a PC
+ without a DVD drive or a PC that can't boot from a USB stick.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -480,7 +481,7 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Contains only free software, for people who refuse non free
+ <p>Contains only free software, for those people who refuse to use non-free
software.
</p>
@@ -507,7 +508,7 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Contains non free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for
+ <p>Contains non-free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for
people who need it.
</p>
@@ -522,11 +523,11 @@
</div>
- <div class="section" title="Media downloading and checking">
+ <div class="section" title="Downloading and Checking Media">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e132"></a>Media downloading and checking
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e132"></a>Downloading and Checking Media
</h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -546,22 +547,23 @@
- <p>Once you have chosen your ISO file, you can download it either
- using http or BitTorrent. In both cases, a window give you some
- information, like the used mirror and the possibility to change if the
- bandwidth is to low. If http is chosen, you can also see something
+ <p>Once you have chosen your ISO file, you can download it using
+ either http or BitTorrent. In both cases, a window gives you some
+ information, such as the mirror in use and the possibility to change if the
+ bandwidth is to low. If http is chosen, you may also see something
like
</p>
- <p>md5sum and sha1sum are tools to check your ISO integrity. Use only
+ <p>md5sum and sha1sum are tools to check the ISO integrity. Use only
one of them. Both hexadecimal numbers have been calculated by an
- algorithm from the file to be downloaded. If you ask this algorithm to
- calculate again this number from your downloaded file, either you have
+ algorithm from the file to be downloaded. When you ask these algorithms to
+ recalculate this number from your downloaded file, either you have
the same number and your downloaded file is correct, or the number is
- different and you met a failure. Then this window appears:
+ different and you have a failure. A failure infers that you should retry
+ the download.Then this window appears:
</p>
@@ -623,17 +625,17 @@
- <p>The checked ISO can now be burned on a CD or DVD or dumped on a USB
- stick. These operations are not a simple copy and aim at make a boot-able
- media.
+ <p>The checked ISO can now be burned to a CD or DVD or dumped to a USB
+ stick. These operations are not a simple copy and aim to make a boot-able
+ medium.
</p>
- <div class="section" title="Burn the ISO on a CD/DVD">
+ <div class="section" title="Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e160"></a>Burn the ISO on a CD/DVD
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e160"></a>Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -641,19 +643,19 @@
- <p>Use whatever burner you want but ensure the burning device is set
- correctly to <span class="bold"><strong>burn an image</strong></span>, burn data or files is not correct.
- More information in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
+ <p>Use whatever burner you wish but ensure the burning device is set
+ correctly to <span class="bold"><strong>burn an image</strong></span>, burn data or files is not correct.
+ There is more information in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
</p>
</div>
- <div class="section" title="Dump the ISO on a USB stick">
+ <div class="section" title="Dump the ISO to a USB stick">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e165"></a>Dump the ISO on a USB stick
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e165"></a>Dump the ISO to a USB stick
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -661,8 +663,8 @@
- <p>All Mageia ISOs are hybrid, which means you can 'dump' them on a
- USB stick and use it to boot and install the system.
+ <p>All Mageia ISOs are hybrids, which means you can 'dump' them to a
+ USB stick and then use it to boot and install the system.
</p>
@@ -675,8 +677,8 @@
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
- <p>"dumping" an image onto a flash device destroys any prior
- file-system in the partition; any data will be lost and partition
+ <p>"dumping" an image onto a flash device destroys any previous
+ file-system on the device; any other data will be lost and the partition
capacity will be reduced to the image size.
</p>
@@ -686,9 +688,7 @@
</div>
- <p>To recover the original capacity, you have to format the USB
- stick.
- </p>
+ <p>To recover the original capacity, you must re-format the USB stick.</p>
<div class="section" title="Using Mageia">
@@ -718,8 +718,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Become root with the command <strong class="userinput"><code>su -</code></strong> (don't forget the final
- -)
+ <p>Become root with the command <strong class="userinput"><code>su -</code></strong> (don't forget the final '-' )
</p>
@@ -727,8 +726,8 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Plug your USB stick (do not mount it, that means do not open
- any application or file manager that read it)
+ <p>Plug your USB stick (do not mount it, this also means do not open
+ any application or file manager that could access or read it)
</p>
</li>
@@ -753,9 +752,10 @@
bs=1M</code></strong></p>
- <p>(x)=your device name eg: /dev/sdc Example: # <strong class="userinput"><code>dd
- if=/home/user/Downloads/Mageia-4-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdb
- bs=1M</code></strong></p>
+ <p>Where X=your device name eg: /dev/sdc</p>
+
+ <p> Example: # <strong class="userinput"><code>dd if=/home/user/Downloads/Mageia-4-x86_64-DVD.iso
+ of=/dev/sdb bs=1M</code></strong></p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e205"></a>Using Windows
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e206"></a>Using Windows
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@
- <p>You can try:</p>
+ <p>You could try:</p>
<p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US" target="_top">Rufus</a></p>
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e213"></a>Mageia Installation
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e214"></a>Mageia Installation
</h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@
</p>
- <p>More information, is available in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Documentation" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
+ <p>More information is available in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Documentation" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
</p>
</div>
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 02d403f..9397ae8 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -27,16 +27,17 @@
<dd>
<dl>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="Select-and-use-ISOs.html#d5e19">Media</a></span></dt>
- <dt><span class="section"><a href="Select-and-use-ISOs.html#d5e132">Media downloading and checking</a></span></dt>
+ <dt><span class="section"><a href="Select-and-use-ISOs.html#d5e132">Downloading and Checking Media</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="Select-and-use-ISOs.html#d5e157">Burn or dump the ISO</a></span></dt>
- <dt><span class="section"><a href="Select-and-use-ISOs.html#d5e213">Mageia Installation</a></span></dt>
+ <dt><span class="section"><a href="Select-and-use-ISOs.html#d5e214">Mageia Installation</a></span></dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="installer.html">DrakX, the Mageia Installer</a></span></dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="installer.html#installationSteps">The installation steps</a></span></dt>
- <dt><span class="section"><a href="installer.html#installationOptions"></a></span></dt>
+ <dt><span class="section"><a href="installer.html#installationProblems">Installation Problems and
+ Possible Solutions</a></span></dt>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="selectLanguage.html">Please choose a language to use</a></span></dt>
@@ -123,6 +124,12 @@
<dt><span class="section"><a href="securityLevel.html">Security Level</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="installUpdates.html">Updates</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="exitInstall.html">Congratulations</a></span></dt>
+ <dt><span class="section"><a href="uninstall-Mageia.html">Uninstalling Mageia</a></span></dt>
+ <dd>
+ <dl>
+ <dt><span class="section"><a href="uninstall-Mageia.html#d5e1119">Howto</a></span></dt>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
</dl>
</div>
diff --git a/installer.html b/installer.html
index cbef2a5..5b7e811 100644
--- a/installer.html
+++ b/installer.html
@@ -299,129 +299,124 @@
</div>
-
- <div class="section">
- <div class="titlepage"></div>
-
- <div class="section" title="Installation Problems and Possible Solutions">
+
+ <div class="section" title="Installation Problems and Possible Solutions">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="installationProblems"></a>Installation Problems and
+ Possible Solutions
+ </h3>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="No Graphical Interface">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="installationProblems"></a>Installation Problems and
- Possible Solutions
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="noX"></a>No Graphical Interface
</h4>
</div>
</div>
</div>
-
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>After the initial screen you did not reach the language
+ selection screen. This can happen with some graphic cards and
+ older systems. Try using low resolution by typing
+ <code class="code">vgalo</code> at the prompt.
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>If the hardware is very old, a graphical
+ installation may not be possible. In this case it is worth trying
+ a text mode installation. To use this hit ESC at the first welcome
+ screen and confirm with ENTER. You will be presented with a black
+ screen with the word "boot:". Type "text" and hit ENTER. Now
+ continue with the installation in text mode.
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
- <div class="section" title="No Graphical Interface">
- <div class="titlepage">
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="The Install Freezes">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
<div>
- <div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="noX"></a>No Graphical Interface
- </h5>
- </div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="installFreezes"></a>The Install Freezes
+ </h4>
</div>
</div>
-
-
-
- <div class="itemizedlist">
- <ul class="itemizedlist">
- <li class="listitem">
-
- <p>After the initial screen you did not reach the language
- selection screen. This can happen with some graphic cards and
- older systems. Try using low resolution by typing
- <code class="code">vgalo</code> at the prompt.
- </p>
-
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
-
- <p>If the hardware is very old, a graphical
- installation may not be possible. In this case it is worth trying
- a text mode installation. To use this hit ESC at the first welcome
- screen and confirm with ENTER. You will be presented with a black
- screen with the word "boot:". Type "text" and hit ENTER. Now
- continue with the installation in text mode.
- </p>
-
- </li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-
</div>
+
+
+ <p>If the system appeared to freeze during the installation, this
+ may be a problem with hardware detection. In this case the automatic
+ detection of hardware may be bypassed and dealt with later. To try
+ this, type <code class="code">noauto</code> at the prompt. This option may also be
+ combined with other options as necessary.
+ </p>
- <div class="section" title="The Install Freezes">
- <div class="titlepage">
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="RAM problem">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
<div>
- <div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="installFreezes"></a>The Install Freezes
- </h5>
- </div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="kernelOptions"></a>RAM problem
+ </h4>
</div>
</div>
-
-
-
- <p>If the system appeared to freeze during the installation, this
- may be a problem with hardware detection. In this case the automatic
- detection of hardware may be bypassed and dealt with later. To try
- this, type <code class="code">noauto</code> at the prompt. This option may also be
- combined with other options as necessary.
- </p>
-
</div>
+
+
+ <p>These will rarely be needed, but in some cases the hardware may
+ report the available RAM incorrectly. To specify this manually, you
+ can use the <code class="code">mem=xxxM</code> parameter, where xxx is the correct
+ amount of RAM. e.g. <code class="code">mem=256M</code> would specify 256MB of
+ RAM.
+ </p>
- <div class="section" title="RAM problem">
- <div class="titlepage">
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Dynamic partitions">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
<div>
- <div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="kernelOptions"></a>RAM problem
- </h5>
- </div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="DynamicPartitions"></a>Dynamic partitions
+ </h4>
</div>
</div>
-
-
-
- <p>These will rarely be needed, but in some cases the hardware may
- report the available RAM incorrectly. To specify this manually, you
- can use the <code class="code">mem=xxxM</code> parameter, where xxx is the correct
- amount of RAM. e.g. <code class="code">mem=256M</code> would specify 256MB of
- RAM.
- </p>
-
</div>
+
+
+ <p>If you converted your hard disk from "basic" format to "dynamic"
+ format on Microsoft Windows, you must know that it is impossible to
+ install Mageia on this disc. To go back to a basic disk, see the
+ Microsoft documentation: <a class="ulink" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776315.aspx" target="_top">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776315.aspx</a>.
+ </p>
- <div class="section" title="Dynamic partitions">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="DynamicPartitions"></a>Dynamic partitions
- </h5>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
-
-
- <p>If you converted your hard disk from "basic" format to "dynamic"
- format on Microsoft Windows, you must know that it is impossible to
- install Mageia on this disc. To go back to a basic disk, see the
- Microsoft documentation: <a class="ulink" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776315.aspx" target="_top">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776315.aspx</a>.
- </p>
-
- </div>
-
</div>
-
+
</div>
</div>
diff --git a/uninstall-Mageia.html b/uninstall-Mageia.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cdd46c
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+++ b/uninstall-Mageia.html
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+
+ <title>Uninstalling Mageia</title>
+ <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2">
+ <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Installation with DrakX">
+ <link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Installation with DrakX">
+ <link rel="prev" href="exitInstall.html" title="Congratulations"><style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" type="text/css">
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+ <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF">
+ <div lang="" class="section" title="Uninstalling Mageia">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h2 class="title"><a name="uninstall-Mageia"></a>Uninstalling Mageia
+ </h2>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Howto">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e1119"></a>Howto
+ </h3>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <p>If Mageia didn't convince you or you can't install it correctly, in
+ short you want get rid of it. That is your right and Mageia also gives you
+ the possibility to uninstall. This is not true for every operating
+ system.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>After your data backup, reboot your installation Mageia DVD and select Rescue
+ system, then, Restore Windows boot loader. At the next boot, you will only
+ have Windows with no option to choose your operating system.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>To recover the space used by Mageia partitions on Windows, click on
+ <code class="code">Start -&gt; Control Panel -&gt; Administrative Tools -&gt; Computer
+ Management -&gt; Storage -&gt; Disk Management</code> to access to the
+ partition management. You will recognize the Mageia partition because they
+ are labeled <span class="guilabel">Unknown</span>, and also by their size and place
+ in the disk. Right click on each of these partitions and select
+ <span class="guibutton">Delete</span>. The space will be freed.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>If you are using Windows XP, you can create a new partition and format it (FAT32
+ or NTFS). It will get a partition letter.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>If you have Vista or 7, you have one more possibility, you can
+ extend the existing partition that is at the left of the freed space.
+ There are other partitioning tools that can be used, such as gparted,
+ available for both windows and linux. As always, when changing partitions,
+ be very careful, and make sure all important things have been backed
+ up.
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+ </body>
+</html>