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@@ -50,8 +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>
@@ -89,7 +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">
@@ -131,14 +132,12 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Each DVD contains any available desktop environments and languages.</p>
+ <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>
+ <p>You'll be given the choice during the installation to add non free software.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -163,20 +162,20 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Both architectures are present on the same media, the choice is made
+ <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, 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>
@@ -221,19 +220,20 @@
<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 GNOME).</p>
+ <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">
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>They contains non free software.</p>
+ <p>They contain non free software.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>32 bits only.</p>
+ <p>32 bit only.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- <p>32 bits only.</p>
+ <p>32 bit only.</p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
</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>
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@
</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>
@@ -396,11 +396,11 @@
</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>
@@ -425,23 +425,24 @@
<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.
+ 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">
@@ -471,7 +472,9 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Contains only free software, for people who refuse non free software.</p>
+ <p>Contains only free software, for those people who refuse to use non-free
+ software.
+ </p>
</li>
</ul>
@@ -496,7 +499,7 @@
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
- <p>Contains non free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for people who need
+ <p>Contains non-free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for people who need
it.
</p>
@@ -511,11 +514,11 @@
</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>
@@ -535,21 +538,22 @@
- <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>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 one of
+ <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
+ 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:
+ 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:
</p>
@@ -611,17 +615,17 @@
- <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>
@@ -629,20 +633,20 @@
- <p>Use whatever burner you want but ensure the burning device is set correctly
+ <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. More information in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images" target="_top">the Mageia
+ 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>
@@ -650,8 +654,8 @@
- <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>
@@ -664,9 +668,9 @@
<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>"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>
</td>
@@ -675,7 +679,7 @@
</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">
@@ -706,7 +710,7 @@
<li class="listitem">
<p>Become root with the command <strong class="userinput"><code>su -</code></strong> (don't forget the
- final -)
+ final '-' )
</p>
@@ -714,8 +718,8 @@
</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>
@@ -739,9 +743,10 @@
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">
@@ -764,7 +769,7 @@
<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>
@@ -772,7 +777,7 @@
- <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>
@@ -795,7 +800,7 @@
<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>
@@ -808,7 +813,7 @@
</p>
- <p>More information, is available in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Documentation" target="_top">the Mageia
+ <p>More information is available in <a class="ulink" href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Documentation" target="_top">the Mageia
wiki</a>.
</p>