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diff --git a/Select-and-use-ISOs.html b/Select-and-use-ISOs.html index d2d97ba..f0a232f 100644 --- a/Select-and-use-ISOs.html +++ b/Select-and-use-ISOs.html @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ </div> </div> </div> + @@ -50,9 +51,9 @@ - <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>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 +91,9 @@ <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"> - <p>These ISOs use the traditional installer called drakx.</p> + <p>These ISOs use the traditional installer called + drakx. + </p> </li> <li class="listitem"> @@ -141,7 +144,7 @@ </li> <li class="listitem"> - <p>You'll be given the choice during the installation to add + <p>You'll be given the choice during the installation to add non free software. </p> @@ -168,8 +171,8 @@ <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"> - <p>Both architectures are present on the same medium, the choice - is made automatically according to the detected CPU. + <p>Both architectures are present on the same medium, the + choice is made automatically according to the detected CPU. </p> </li> @@ -180,8 +183,8 @@ </li> <li class="listitem"> - <p>Not all languages are available. (be, bg, ca, de, en, es, fr, it, mk, pl, - pt, ru, sv, uk) TO BE CHECKED! + <p>Not all languages are available. (be, bg, ca, de, en, es, + fr, it, mk, pl, pt, ru, sv, uk) TO BE CHECKED! </p> </li> @@ -226,9 +229,8 @@ <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"> - <p>Can be used to preview the distribution without installing it on - a HDD, and optionally install Mageia on to 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> @@ -435,8 +437,8 @@ <p>Each one is a small image that contains no more than that 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 + 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> @@ -445,7 +447,8 @@ <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. + without a DVD drive or a PC that can't boot from a USB + stick. </p> </li> @@ -481,8 +484,8 @@ <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"> - <p>Contains only free software, for those people who refuse to use non-free - software. + <p>Contains only free software, for those people who refuse to + use non-free software. </p> </li> @@ -549,8 +552,8 @@ <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 + 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> @@ -559,8 +562,8 @@ <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. When you ask these algorithms to - recalculate 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 have a failure. A failure infers that you should retry the download.Then this window appears: @@ -644,8 +647,9 @@ <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>. + 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> @@ -678,8 +682,8 @@ <td align="left" valign="top"> <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. + file-system on the device; any other data will be lost and the + partition capacity will be reduced to the image size. </p> </td> @@ -688,7 +692,9 @@ </div> - <p>To recover the original capacity, you must re-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"> @@ -718,7 +724,8 @@ </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> @@ -726,8 +733,9 @@ </li> <li class="listitem"> - <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>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> @@ -748,14 +756,16 @@ </li> <li class="listitem"> - <p>Enter the command: # <strong class="userinput"><code>dd if=path/to/the/ISO/file of=/dev/sdX - bs=1M</code></strong></p> + <p>Enter the command: # <strong class="userinput"><code>dd if=path/to/the/ISO/file + of=/dev/sdX 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> + <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"> @@ -792,7 +802,8 @@ <p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US" target="_top">Rufus</a></p> - <p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager" target="_top">Win32 Disk Imager</a></p> + <p>- <a class="ulink" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager" target="_top">Win32 Disk + Imager</a></p> <p></p> @@ -816,16 +827,17 @@ - <p>This step is detailed in <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mageia.org/en/doc/" target="_top">the Mageia documentation</a>. + <p>This step is detailed in <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mageia.org/en/doc/" target="_top">the Mageia + documentation</a>. </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> - </div> </body> </html> |