DrakX, the Mageia InstallerWhether 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.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 installation stepsThe install process is divided into a number of steps, which can be
followed on the side panel of the screen.Each step has one or more screens which may also have
Advanced buttons with extra, less commonly
required, options.Most screens have Help buttons which give
further explanations about the current step.If somewhere during install you decide to stop the installation,
it is possible to reboot, but please think twice before you do this.
Once a partition has been formatted or updates have started to be
installed, your computer is no longer in the same state and rebooting it
could very well leave you with an unusable system. If in spite of this
you are very sure rebooting is what you want, go to a text terminal by
pressing the three keys Alt Ctrl F2 at the same
time. After that, press Alt Ctrl Delete
simultaneously to reboot.Installation optionsIf the installation fails then it may be necessary to try again by
using one of the extra options available by hitting the F1
(Help) key see This will open the following text based help.Installation Problems and
Possible SolutionsNo Graphical InterfaceAfter 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
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.The Install FreezesIf 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 noauto at the prompt. This option may also be
combined with other options as necessary.Kernel OptionsThese will rarely be needed, but in some cases the hardware may
report the available RAM incorrectly. To specify this manually, you
can use the mem=xxxM parameter, where xxx is the correct
amount of RAM. e.g. mem=256M would specify 256MB of
RAM.