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diff --git a/docs/installer/en/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml b/docs/installer/en/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml index 6970d3ea..12a8c2e6 100644 --- a/docs/installer/en/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml +++ b/docs/installer/en/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml @@ -6,6 +6,34 @@ </info> <section> + <title>Introduction</title> + + <para>Mageia is distributed via ISO images. This page will help you to + choose which image match your needs.</para> + + <para>There is two families of media:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>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.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>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.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + <para>Details are given in the next sections.</para> + </section> + + <section> <title>Media</title> <section> @@ -269,12 +297,8 @@ </mediaobject> <para>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:</para> + one of them. Keep one of them <link linkend="integrity">for further + usage</link>. Then this window appears:</para> <mediaobject> <imageobject> @@ -286,7 +310,15 @@ </section> <section> - <title>Checking the downloaded media integrity</title> + <title xml:id="integrity">Checking the downloaded media + integrity</title> + + <para>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.</para> <para>Open a console, no need to be root, and:</para> @@ -337,13 +369,34 @@ partition capacity will be reduced to the image size.</para> </warning> - <para>To recover the original capacity, you must re-format the USB - stick.</para> + <para>To recover the original capacity, you must redo partitioning and + re-format the USB stick.</para> <section> - <title>Using Mageia</title> + <title>Using a graphical tool within Mageia</title> <para>You can use a graphical tool like <link ns4:href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/IsoDumper_Writing_ISO_images_on_USB_sticks">IsoDumper</link></para> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Using a graphical tool within Windows</title> + + <para>You could try:</para> + + <para>- <link ns4:href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US">Rufus</link> using the + "ISO image" option;</para> + + <para>- <link ns4:href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager">Win32 Disk + Imager</link></para> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Using Command line within a GNU/Linux system</title> + + <warning> + <para>It is potentially *dangerous* to do this by hand. You risk to + overwrite a disc partition if you get the device-ID wrong.</para> + </warning> <para>You can also use the dd tool in a console:</para> @@ -377,12 +430,36 @@ <imagedata fileref="../Fdisk.png"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> + + <para>Alternatively, you can get the device name with the command + <code>dmesg</code>: at end, you see the device name starting with + <emphasis>sd</emphasis>, and <emphasis>sdd</emphasis> in this + case:</para> + + <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] <emphasis>sdd</emphasis>: sdd1 +[72595.969446] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk</screen> </listitem> <listitem> <para>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.</para> + example <code>/dev/sdb</code> in the screenshot above, it is a 8GB + USB stick.</para> </listitem> <listitem> @@ -405,29 +482,6 @@ </listitem> </orderedlist> </section> - - <section> - <title>Using Windows</title> - - <para>You could try:</para> - - <para>- <link ns4:href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US">Rufus</link></para> - - <para>- <link ns4:href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager">Win32 Disk - Imager</link></para> - - <para/> - </section> </section> </section> - - <section> - <title>Mageia Installation</title> - - <para>This step is detailed in <link ns4:href="http://www.mageia.org/en/doc/">the Mageia - documentation</link>.</para> - - <para>More information is available in <link ns4:href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Documentation">the Mageia - wiki</link>.</para> - </section> -</section> +</section>
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