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+ <div lang="ca" class="section" title="Select and use ISOs">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h2 class="title"><a name="Select-and-use-ISOs"></a>Select and use ISOs
+ </h2>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Media">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e19"></a>Media
+ </h3>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Definition">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e21"></a>Definition
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <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>
+
+
+ <p>You can find them <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/" target="_top">here</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Classical installation media">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e26"></a>Classical installation media
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Common features">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e28"></a>Common features
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>They use the traditional installer called drakx.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>They are able to make a clean install or an update from previous releases.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="DVD">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e35"></a>DVD
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Some tools are available in the Welcome screen: Rescue System, Memory Test,
+ Hardware Detection Tool.
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Each DVD contains any 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>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="DVD dual arch">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e46"></a>DVD dual arch
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Both architectures are present on the same media, the choice is made
+ automatically according to the detected CPU.
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Xfce desktop only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Some languages only (be, bg, ca, de, en, es, fr, it, mk, pl, pt, ru, sv, uk)
+ TO BE CHECKED!
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>It contains non free software.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Live media">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e57"></a>Live media
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Common features">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e59"></a>Common features
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <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>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>ISO contains only one desktop environment (KDE or GNOME).</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p><span class="bold"><strong>Live ISOs can only be used to create clean
+ installations, they cannot be used to upgrade from previous
+ releases.</strong></span></p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>They contains non free software.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Live CD KDE">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e73"></a>Live CD KDE
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>KDE desktop environment only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>English language only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>32 bits only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Live CD GNOME">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e82"></a>Live CD GNOME
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>GNOME desktop environment only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>English language only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>32 bits only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Live DVD KDE">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e91"></a>Live DVD KDE
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>KDE desktop environment only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>All languages are present.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Live DVD GNOME">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e100"></a>Live DVD GNOME
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>GNOME desktop environment only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>All languages are present.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Boot-only CDs media">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e109"></a>Boot-only CDs media
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Common features">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e111"></a>Common features
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <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 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>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>English language only.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="boot.iso">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e122"></a>boot.iso
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Contains only free software, for people who refuse non free software.</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="boot-nonfree.iso">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e127"></a>boot-nonfree.iso
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="itemizedlist">
+ <ul class="itemizedlist">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Contains non free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for people who need
+ it.
+ </p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Media downloading and checking">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e132"></a>Media downloading and checking
+ </h3>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Downloading">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e134"></a>Downloading
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <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 like
+ </p>
+
+
+
+
+ <p>md5sum and sha1sum are tools to check your 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 the same number and your
+ downloaded file is correct, or the number is different and you met a
+ failure. Then this window appears:
+ </p>
+
+
+
+
+ <p>Check the radio button Save File.</p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Checking the downloaded media integrity">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e145"></a>Checking the downloaded media integrity
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <p>Open a console, no need to be root, and:</p>
+
+
+ <p>- To use md5sum, type: [sam@localhost]$ <strong class="userinput"><code>md5sum
+ path/to/the/image/file.iso</code></strong>.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>- To use sha1sum, type: [sam@localhost]$ <strong class="userinput"><code>sha1sum
+ path/to/the/image/file.iso</code></strong>.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p>and compare the obtained number on your computer (you may have to wait for a
+ while) with the number given by Mageia. Example:
+ </p>
+
+
+
+
+ <p></p>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Burn or dump the ISO">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e157"></a>Burn or dump the ISO
+ </h3>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <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>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Burn the ISO on a CD/DVD">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e160"></a>Burn the ISO on a CD/DVD
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <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>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Dump the ISO on a USB stick">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h4 class="title"><a name="d5e165"></a>Dump the ISO on a USB stick
+ </h4>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <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>
+
+
+ <div class="warning" title="Av&iacute;s" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Warning">
+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Av&iacute;s]" src="warning.png"></td>
+ <th align="left"></th>
+ </tr>
+ <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 capacity will be reduced to
+ the image size.
+ </p>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <p>To recover the original capacity, you have to format the USB stick.</p>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Using Mageia">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e171"></a>Using Mageia
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <p>You can use a graphical tool like <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/IsoDumper_Writing_ISO_images_on_USB_sticks" target="_top">IsoDumper</a></p>
+
+
+ <p>You can also use the dd tool in a console:</p>
+
+
+ <div class="orderedlist">
+ <ol class="orderedlist" type="1">
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Open a console</p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Become root with the command <strong class="userinput"><code>su -</code></strong> (don't forget the
+ final -)
+ </p>
+
+
+
+ </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>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Enter the command <strong class="userinput"><code>fdisk -l</code></strong></p>
+
+
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Find the device name for your USB stick (by its size), for example /dev/sdb
+ in the screenshot above, it is a 8Go USB stick.
+ </p>
+
+ </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>(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>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Enter the command: # <strong class="userinput"><code>sync</code></strong></p>
+
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+
+ <p>Unplug your USB stick, it is done</p>
+
+ </li>
+ </ol>
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Using Windows">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h5 class="title"><a name="d5e205"></a>Using Windows
+ </h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <p>You can try:</p>
+
+
+ <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></p>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section" title="Mageia Installation">
+ <div class="titlepage">
+ <div>
+ <div>
+ <h3 class="title"><a name="d5e213"></a>Mageia Installation
+ </h3>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+
+ <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>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ </div>
+ </body>
+</html>