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<!-- Made by marja on 2012 03 30, using barjac's text -->
<!-- NEEDS TO BE REVIEWED! -->
<!--removed para id's, corrected duplicate id's for segments, marja, 20120409 -->
<!--barjac 2012-04-11 - corrected link to Welcome screen and unmangled header -
seems to be corrupted by xxe addon when saving -->
<!-- JohnR - apparent corruption is caused by the positioning of this comment block
- corrected Lebarhon : I put [] where it seems having mistakes -->
<!-- barjac 18/04/2012 Commented out para relating to peripherals, as it's apparently wrong -->
<info>
<title xml:id="installer-ti1">DrakX, the Mageia Installer</title>
</info>
<para>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.</para>
<!-- <para>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.</para> -->
<para>The initial menu screen has various options, however the default one
will start the installer, which will normally be all that you will
need.</para>
<figure xml:id="dx-welcome">
<info>
<title xml:id="installer-ti2">Installation Welcome Screen</title>
</info>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata revision="1" fileref="../dx-welcome.png" align="center"
format="PNG" xml:id="BId-drakx-intro-im1">
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</figure>
<para>If there are problems during install, then it may be necessary to use
special installation options, see <xref linkend="installationOptions"></xref>.</para>
<section xml:id="installationSteps">
<info>
<title xml:id="installationSteps-ti1">The installation steps</title>
</info>
<para>The install process is divided into a number of steps, which can be
followed on the side panel of the screen.</para>
<para>Each step has one or more screens which may also have
<guibutton>Advanced</guibutton> buttons with extra, less commonly
required, options.</para>
<para>Most screens have <guibutton>Help</guibutton> buttons which give
further explanations about the current step.</para>
<note>
<para>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 <guibutton>Alt Ctrl F2</guibutton> at the same
time. After that, press <guibutton>Alt Ctrl Delete</guibutton>
simultaneously to reboot.</para>
</note>
</section>
<section xml:id="installationOptions">
<info>
<title xml:id="installationOptions-ti1">Installation options</title>
</info>
<para>If the installation fails then it may be necessary to try again by
using one of the extra options available by hitting the <guibutton>F1
(Help)</guibutton> key see <xref linkend="dx-welcome"></xref></para>
<para>This will open the following text based help.</para>
<figure xml:id="dx-help">
<info>
<title xml:id="installationOptions-ti2">Installation Help
Screen</title>
</info>
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</figure>
<section xml:id="installationProblems">
<info>
<title xml:id="installationProblems-ti1">Installation Problems and
Possible Solutions</title>
</info>
<section xml:id="noX">
<info>
<title xml:id="noX-ti2">No Graphical Interface</title>
</info>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>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
<code>vgalo</code> at the prompt.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="2">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.<emphasis></emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section xml:id="installFreezes">
<info>
<title xml:id="installFreezes-ti1">The Install Freezes</title>
</info>
<para>If 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 <code>noauto</code> at the prompt. This option may also be
combined with other options as necessary.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="kernelOptions">
<info>
<title xml:id="kernelOptions-ti1">Kernel Options</title>
</info>
<para>These will rarely be needed, but in some cases the hardware may
report the available RAM incorrectly. To specify this manually, you
can use the <code>mem=xxxM</code> parameter, where xxx is the correct
amount of RAM. e.g. <code>mem=256M</code> would specify 256MB of
RAM.</para>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</section>
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