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+++ b/pl/Select-and-use-ISOs.html
@@ -27,11 +27,59 @@
- <div class="section" title="Media">
+ <div class="section" title="Introduction">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e19"></a>Media
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e19"></a>Introduction
+ </h3>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <p>Mageia is distributed via ISO images. This page will help you to choose
+ which image match your needs.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>There is two families of media:</p>
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Classical installer: After booting the media, it will follow a process
+ allowing to choose what to install and how to configure your target
+ system. This give you the maximal flexibility for a customized installation,
+ in particular to choose which Desktop Environment you will install.
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>LIVE media: you can boot the media in a real Mageia system without
+ installing it, to see what you will get after installation. The
+ installation process is simpler, but you get lesser choices.
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <p>Details are given in the next sections.</p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="No&#347;nik">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e29"></a>No&#347;nik
</h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -43,7 +91,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e21"></a>Definition
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e31"></a>Definition
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -67,7 +115,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e26"></a>Classical installation media
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e36"></a>Classical installation media
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -79,7 +127,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e28"></a>Common features
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e38"></a>Common features
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -109,7 +157,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e35"></a>DVD
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e45"></a>DVD
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -151,7 +199,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e46"></a>DVD dual arch
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e56"></a>DVD dual arch
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -197,7 +245,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e57"></a>Live media
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e67"></a>Live media
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -209,7 +257,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e59"></a>Common features
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e69"></a>Common features
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -258,7 +306,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e73"></a>Live CD KDE
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e83"></a>Live CD KDE
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -293,7 +341,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e82"></a>Live CD GNOME
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e92"></a>Live CD GNOME
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -328,7 +376,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e91"></a>Live DVD KDE
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e101"></a>Live DVD KDE
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -363,7 +411,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e100"></a>Live DVD GNOME
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e110"></a>Live DVD GNOME
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -400,7 +448,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e109"></a>Boot-only CD media
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e119"></a>Boot-only CD media
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -412,7 +460,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e111"></a>Common features
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e121"></a>Common features
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -460,7 +508,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e122"></a>boot.iso
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e132"></a>boot.iso
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -487,7 +535,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e127"></a>boot-nonfree.iso
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e137"></a>boot-nonfree.iso
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -518,7 +566,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e132"></a>Downloading and Checking Media
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e142"></a>Downloading and Checking Media
</h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -530,7 +578,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e134"></a>Downloading
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e144"></a>Downloading
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -548,12 +596,8 @@
<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. 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 have a
- failure. A failure infers that you should retry the download.Then this
- window appears:
+ them. Keep one of them <a class="link" href="Select-and-use-ISOs.html#integrity">for further
+ usage</a>. Then this window appears:
</p>
@@ -568,7 +612,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e145"></a>Checking the downloaded media integrity
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e156"></a>Checking the downloaded media integrity
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -576,6 +620,14 @@
+ <p>Both checksums are hexadecimal numbers calculated by an 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 have a
+ failure. A failure infers that you should retry the download.
+ </p>
+
+
<p>Open a console, no need to be root, and:</p>
@@ -607,7 +659,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e157"></a>Burn or dump the ISO
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e169"></a>Burn or dump the ISO
</h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -625,7 +677,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e160"></a>Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e172"></a>Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -646,7 +698,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e165"></a>Dump the ISO to a USB stick
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e177"></a>Dump the ISO to a USB stick
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -679,14 +731,16 @@
</div>
- <p>To recover the original capacity, you must re-format the USB stick.</p>
+ <p>To recover the original capacity, you must redo partitioning and re-format
+ the USB stick.
+ </p>
- <div class="section" title="Using Mageia">
+ <div class="section" title="Using a graphical tool within Mageia">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e171"></a>Using Mageia
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e183"></a>Using a graphical tool within Mageia
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -695,6 +749,65 @@
<p>You can use a graphical tool like <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/IsoDumper_Writing_ISO_images_on_USB_sticks" target="_top">IsoDumper</a></p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Using a graphical tool within Windows">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e187"></a>Using a graphical tool within Windows
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <p>You could try:</p>
+
+
+ <p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US" target="_top">Rufus</a> using the
+ "ISO image" option;
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager" target="_top">Win32
+ Disk Imager</a></p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Using Command line within a GNU/Linux system">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e194"></a>Using Command line within a GNU/Linux system
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="warning" title="Ostrze&#380;enie" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Warning">
+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Ostrze&#380;enie]" src="warning.png"></td>
+ <th align="left"></th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="left" valign="top">
+
+ <p>It is potentially *dangerous* to do this by hand. You risk to overwrite a
+ disc partition if you get the device-ID wrong.
+ </p>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
<p>You can also use the dd tool in a console:</p>
@@ -728,12 +841,36 @@
<p>Enter the command <strong class="userinput"><code>fdisk -l</code></strong></p>
-
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
+
- <p>Find the device name for your USB stick (by its size), for example /dev/sdb
- in the screenshot above, it is a 8Go USB stick.
+ <p>Alternatively, you can get the device name with the command
+ <code class="code">dmesg</code>: at end, you see the device name starting with
+ <span class="emphasis"><em>sd</em></span>, and <span class="emphasis"><em>sdd</em></span> in this case:
+ </p>
+
+ <pre class="screen">[72594.604531] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 27 using xhci_hcd
+[72594.770528] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=8564, idProduct=1000
+[72594.770533] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
+[72594.770536] usb 1-1: Product: Mass Storage Device
+[72594.770537] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: JetFlash
+[72594.770539] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 18MJTWLMPUCC3SSB
+[72594.770713] usb 1-1: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 128 microframes, ep desc says 255 microframes
+[72594.770719] usb 1-1: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 128 microframes, ep desc says 255 microframes
+[72594.771122] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
+[72594.772447] scsi host8: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
+[72595.963238] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash Transcend 2GB 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
+[72595.963626] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] 4194304 512-byte logical blocks: (2.14 GB/2.00 GiB)
+[72595.964104] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
+[72595.964108] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
+[72595.965025] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page found
+[72595.965031] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
+[72595.967251] <span class="emphasis"><em>sdd</em></span>: sdd1
+[72595.969446] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk</pre>
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Find the device name for your USB stick (by its size), for example
+ <code class="code">/dev/sdb</code> in the screenshot above, it is a 8GB USB stick.
</p>
</li>
@@ -764,62 +901,11 @@
</div>
</div>
-
-
- <div class="section" title="Using Windows">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e206"></a>Using Windows
- </h5>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
-
-
- <p>You could try:</p>
-
-
- <p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US" target="_top">Rufus</a></p>
-
-
- <p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager" target="_top">Win32
- Disk Imager</a></p>
-
-
- <p></p>
-
- </div>
</div>
</div>
-
- <div class="section" title="Mageia Installation">
- <div class="titlepage">
- <div>
- <div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e214"></a>Mageia Installation
- </h3>
- </div>
- </div>
- </div>
-
-
-
- <p>This step is detailed in <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mageia.org/en/doc/" target="_top">the
- Mageia documentation</a>.
- </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>
-
- </div>
-
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