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authorMarja van Waes <marja@mageia.org>2015-02-03 22:27:08 +0100
committerMarja van Waes <marja@mageia.org>2015-02-03 22:27:08 +0100
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- New help file: uninstall-Mageia.html
- updates for 3 other English files
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@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
- <p>We call a media here a ISO image file that allows to install
- and/or update Mageia and by extension any physical support where the ISO
- file is copied.
+ <p>Here, a medium (plural: media) is an ISO image file that allows you to install
+ and/or update Mageia and by extension any physical support the ISO
+ file is copied to.
</p>
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>They use the traditional installer called drakx.</p>
+ <p>These ISOs use the traditional installer called drakx.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -134,15 +134,15 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Each DVD contains any available desktop environments and
+ <p>Each DVD contains many available desktop environments and
languages.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>You'll be given the choice during the installation to add or
- not non free software.
+ <p>You'll be given the choice during the installation to add
+ non free software.
</p>
</li>
@@ -168,19 +168,19 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Both architectures are present on the same media, the choice
+ <p>Both architectures are present on the same medium, the choice
is made automatically according to the detected CPU.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Xfce desktop only.</p>
+ <p>Uses Xfce desktop only.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Some languages only (be, bg, ca, de, en, es, fr, it, mk, pl,
+ <p>Not all languages are available. (be, bg, ca, de, en, es, fr, it, mk, pl,
pt, ru, sv, uk) TO BE CHECKED!
</p>
@@ -226,22 +226,22 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Can be used to preview the distribution without first
- installing it on a HDD, and optionally install Mageia on your
- HDD.
+ <p>Can be used to preview the distribution without installing it on
+ a HDD, and optionally install Mageia on to your HDD.
+
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>ISO contains only one desktop environment (KDE or
+ <p>Each ISO contains only one desktop environment (KDE or
GNOME).
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>They contains non free software.</p>
+ <p>They contain non free software.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>32 bits only.</p>
+ <p>32 bit only.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>32 bits only.</p>
+ <p>32 bit only.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -404,11 +404,11 @@
</div>
- <div class="section" title="Boot-only CDs media">
+ <div class="section" title="Boot-only CD media">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e109"></a>Boot-only CDs media
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e109"></a>Boot-only CD media
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -433,24 +433,25 @@
<li class="listitem">
<p>Each one is a small image that contains no more than that
- which is needed to start the drakx installer and find the ISO file
- to continue and complete the install. These ISO files may be on
- the PC hard disk, on a local drive, on a local network or on the
+ which is needed to start the drakx installer and find
+ drakx-installer-stage2 and other packages that are needed to
+ continue and complete the install. These packages may be on the
+ PC hard disk, on a local drive, on a local network or on the
Internet.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>These media are very light (less than 100 Mo) and are
- convenient when bandwidth is too low to download a full DVD, PC
- without DVD drive or PC that can't boot on a USB stick.
+ <p>These media are very light (less than 100 MB) and are
+ convenient when bandwidth is too low to download a full DVD, a PC
+ without a DVD drive or a PC that can't boot from a USB stick.
</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+ <p>Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -480,7 +481,7 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Contains only free software, for people who refuse non free
+ <p>Contains only free software, for those people who refuse to use non-free
software.
</p>
@@ -507,7 +508,7 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Contains non free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for
+ <p>Contains non-free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for
people who need it.
</p>
@@ -522,11 +523,11 @@
</div>
- <div class="section" title="Media downloading and checking">
+ <div class="section" title="Downloading and Checking Media">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e132"></a>Media downloading and checking
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e132"></a>Downloading and Checking Media
</h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -546,22 +547,23 @@
- <p>Once you have chosen your ISO file, you can download it either
- using http or BitTorrent. In both cases, a window give you some
- information, like the used mirror and the possibility to change if the
- bandwidth is to low. If http is chosen, you can also see something
+ <p>Once you have chosen your ISO file, you can download it using
+ either http or BitTorrent. In both cases, a window gives you some
+ information, such as the mirror in use and the possibility to change if the
+ bandwidth is to low. If http is chosen, you may also see something
like
</p>
- <p>md5sum and sha1sum are tools to check your ISO integrity. Use only
+ <p>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. If you ask this algorithm to
- calculate again this number from your downloaded file, either you have
+ 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 met a failure. Then this window appears:
+ different and you have a failure. A failure infers that you should retry
+ the download.Then this window appears:
</p>
@@ -623,17 +625,17 @@
- <p>The checked ISO can now be burned on a CD or DVD or dumped on a USB
- stick. These operations are not a simple copy and aim at make a boot-able
- media.
+ <p>The checked ISO can now be burned to a CD or DVD or dumped to a USB
+ stick. These operations are not a simple copy and aim to make a boot-able
+ medium.
</p>
- <div class="section" title="Burn the ISO on a CD/DVD">
+ <div class="section" title="Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e160"></a>Burn the ISO on a CD/DVD
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e160"></a>Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -641,19 +643,19 @@
- <p>Use whatever burner you want but ensure the burning device is set
- correctly to <span class="bold"><strong>burn an image</strong></span>, burn data or files is not correct.
- More information in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
+ <p>Use whatever burner you wish but ensure the burning device is set
+ correctly to <span class="bold"><strong>burn an image</strong></span>, burn data or files is not correct.
+ There is more information in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
</p>
</div>
- <div class="section" title="Dump the ISO on a USB stick">
+ <div class="section" title="Dump the ISO to a USB stick">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e165"></a>Dump the ISO on a USB stick
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e165"></a>Dump the ISO to a USB stick
</h4>
</div>
</div>
@@ -661,8 +663,8 @@
- <p>All Mageia ISOs are hybrid, which means you can 'dump' them on a
- USB stick and use it to boot and install the system.
+ <p>All Mageia ISOs are hybrids, which means you can 'dump' them to a
+ USB stick and then use it to boot and install the system.
</p>
@@ -675,8 +677,8 @@
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
- <p>"dumping" an image onto a flash device destroys any prior
- file-system in the partition; any data will be lost and partition
+ <p>"dumping" an image onto a flash device destroys any previous
+ file-system on the device; any other data will be lost and the partition
capacity will be reduced to the image size.
</p>
@@ -686,9 +688,7 @@
</div>
- <p>To recover the original capacity, you have to format the USB
- stick.
- </p>
+ <p>To recover the original capacity, you must re-format the USB stick.</p>
<div class="section" title="Using Mageia">
@@ -718,8 +718,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Become root with the command <strong class="userinput"><code>su -</code></strong> (don't forget the final
- -)
+ <p>Become root with the command <strong class="userinput"><code>su -</code></strong> (don't forget the final '-' )
</p>
@@ -727,8 +726,8 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Plug your USB stick (do not mount it, that means do not open
- any application or file manager that read it)
+ <p>Plug your USB stick (do not mount it, this also means do not open
+ any application or file manager that could access or read it)
</p>
</li>
@@ -753,9 +752,10 @@
bs=1M</code></strong></p>
- <p>(x)=your device name eg: /dev/sdc Example: # <strong class="userinput"><code>dd
- if=/home/user/Downloads/Mageia-4-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdb
- bs=1M</code></strong></p>
+ <p>Where X=your device name eg: /dev/sdc</p>
+
+ <p> Example: # <strong class="userinput"><code>dd if=/home/user/Downloads/Mageia-4-x86_64-DVD.iso
+ of=/dev/sdb bs=1M</code></strong></p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e205"></a>Using Windows
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e206"></a>Using Windows
</h5>
</div>
</div>
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@
- <p>You can try:</p>
+ <p>You could try:</p>
<p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US" target="_top">Rufus</a></p>
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e213"></a>Mageia Installation
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e214"></a>Mageia Installation
</h3>
</div>
</div>
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@
</p>
- <p>More information, is available in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Documentation" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
+ <p>More information is available in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Documentation" target="_top">the Mageia wiki</a>.
</p>
</div>