From 254def2f5f66e3616a198b661985f555994db245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuri Chornoivan Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:12:57 +0300 Subject: Update XML --- docs/installer/eo/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/installer/eo/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml') diff --git a/docs/installer/eo/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml b/docs/installer/eo/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml index a9df02e2..f17cc465 100644 --- a/docs/installer/eo/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml +++ b/docs/installer/eo/SelectAndUseISOs2.xml @@ -6,6 +6,32 @@ Select and use ISOs +
+ Introduction + + Mageia is distributed via ISO images. This page will help you to choose +which image match your needs. + + There is two families of media: + + + + 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. + + + + 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. + + + + Details are given in the next sections. +
+
Media @@ -260,12 +286,8 @@ http is chosen, you may also see something like 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 for further +usage. Then this window appears: @@ -274,7 +296,13 @@ window appears:
- Checking the downloaded media integrity + Checking the downloaded media integrity + + 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. Open a console, no need to be root, and: @@ -323,13 +351,35 @@ the device; any other data will be lost and the partition capacity will be reduced to the image size. - To recover the original capacity, you must re-format the USB stick. + To recover the original capacity, you must redo partitioning and re-format +the USB stick.
- Using Mageia + Using a graphical tool within Mageia You can use a graphical tool like IsoDumper +
+ +
+ Using a graphical tool within Windows + + You could try: + + - Rufus using the +"ISO image" option; + + - Win32 +Disk Imager +
+ +
+ Using Command line within a GNU/Linux system + + + It is potentially *dangerous* to do this by hand. You risk to overwrite a +disc partition if you get the device-ID wrong. + You can also use the dd tool in a console: @@ -356,11 +406,34 @@ application or file manager that could access or read it) + + Alternatively, you can get the device name with the command +dmesg: at end, you see the device name starting with +sd, and sdd in this case: + + [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] sdd: sdd1 +[72595.969446] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk - 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. + Find the device name for your USB stick (by its size), for example +/dev/sdb in the screenshot above, it is a 8GB USB stick. @@ -382,30 +455,6 @@ of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
- -
- Using Windows - - You could try: - - - Rufus - - - Win32 -Disk Imager - - -
- -
- Mageia Installation - - This step is detailed in the -Mageia documentation. - - More information is available in the Mageia -wiki. -
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