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      installation.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Upgrade</p><p>If you have one or more previous installations of
      <span class="application">Mageia</span> on your system, the installer will
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    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
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