Whether you are new to GNU-Linux or an experienced user, the Mageia installer is designed to help make your installation or upgrade as easy as possible.
If you have peripherals like printers or scanners, it is best to connect them and make sure they are powered up during installation. These will be automatically detected and configured.
The initial menu screen has various options, however the default one will start the installer, which will normally be all that you will need.
If there are problems during install, then it may be necessary to use special installation options, see the section called “Installation options”.
The install process is divided into a series of steps, which can be followed on the side panel of the screen.
Each step has one or more screens which may also have buttons with extra, less commonly required, options.
Most screens have buttons which give further explanations about the current step.
If the installation fails then it may be neccessary to try again by using one of the extra options available by hitting the F1 key (Help) see Figure 1, “Very First Installation Welcome Screen”
This will open the following text based help.
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 "vgalo" at the prompt.
If the hardware is very old, a graphical installation may be
impossible. In this case it is worth trying a text mode
installation. To use this, type text at the prompt.
Note: this mode may not work in Mageia
2.
If the system appears 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 "noauto" at the prompt. This option may also be combined with the previous options if necessary.