Summary of miscellaneous parameters

DrakX made smart choices for the configuration of your system depending on the choices you made and on the hardware DrakX detected. You can check the settings here and change them if you want after pressing Configure.

System parameters

  • Timezone

    DrakX selected a time zone for you, depending on your preferred language. You can change it if needed. See also the section called “Configure your Timezone”

  • Country / Region

    If you are not in the selected country, it is very important that you correct the setting. See the section called “Select your Country / Region”

  • Bootloader

    DrakX has made good choices for the bootloader setting.

    Do not change anything, unless you know how to configure Grub and/or Lilo

    For more information, see the section called “Bootloader main options”

  • User management

    You can add extra users here. They will each get their own /home directories and will not be able to look in your or each other's documents, mails, pictures and other files.

  • Services:

    System services refer to those small programs which run the background (daemons). This tool allows you to enable or disable certain tasks.

    You should check carefully before changing anything here - a mistake may prevent your computer from operating correctly.

Hardware parameters

  • Keyboard:

    This is where you setup or change your keyboard layout which will depend on your location, language or type of keyboard.

  • Mouse:

    Here you can add or configure other pointing devices, tablets, trackballs etc.

  • Sound card:

    This section allows you to fine tune your sound card. In most cases the options selected will work with your computer.

  • Graphical interface:

    This section allows you to configure your graphic card(s) and displays.

    For more information, see the section called “Set up X, graphic card and monitor configuration”.

Network and Internet parameters

  • Network:

    You can configure your network here, but for network cards with non-free drivers it is better to do that after reboot, in the Mageia Control Center, after having enabled the non-free media repositories.

    [Warning]

    When you add a network card, do not forget to set your firewall to watch that interface as well.

  • Proxies:

    A Proxy Server acts as an intermediary between your computer and the wider internet. This section allows you to configure your computer to utilize a proxy service.

    You may need to consult your systems administrator to get the parameters you need to enter here

Security

  • Security Level:

    Here you set the Security level for your computer, in most cases the default setting (Standard) is adequate for general use.

    Check the option which best suits your usage.

  • Firewall:

    A firewall is intended to be a barrier between your important data and the rascals out there on the internet who would compromise or steal it.

    Select the services that you wish to have access to your system. Your selections will depend on what you use your computer for.

    [Warning]

    Bear in mind that allowing everything (no firewall) may be very risky.

Configure your Timezone

Choose your time zone by choosing your country or a city close to you in the same time zone.

In next screen you can choose to set your hardware clock to local time or to GMT, also known as UTC.

[Note]

If you have more than one operating system on your computer, make sure they are all set to local time, or all to UTC/GMT.

Select your Country / Region

Select your country or region. This is important for all kinds of settings, like the currency and wireless regulatory domain. Setting the wrong country can lead to not being able to use a Wireless network.

If your country isn't in the list, click the Other Countries button and choose your country / region there.

[Note]

If your country is only in the Other Countries list, after clicking OK it may seem a country from the first list was chosen. Please ignore this, DrakX will follow your real choice.

Input method

In the Other Countries screen you can also select an input method (at the bottom of the list). Input methods allow users to input multilingual characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc). IBus is the default input method in Mageia DVDs, Africa/India and Asia/no-India Live-CDs. For Asian and African locales, IBus will be set as default input method so users should not need to configure it manually. Other input methods(SCIM, GCIN, HIME, etc) also provide similar functions and can be installed if you added HTTP/FTP media before package selection.

[Note]

If you missed the input method setup during installation, you can access it after you boot your installed system via "Configure your Computer" -> "System", or by running localedrake as root.

Configure your Services

Here you can set which services should (not) start when you boot your system.

There are four groups, click on the triangle before a group to expand it and see all services in it.

The setting DrakX chose are usually good.

If you highlight a service, some information about it is shown in the info box below.

Only change things when you know very well what you are doing.

Security Level

You can adjust your security level here.

Leave the default settings as they are, if you don't know what to choose.

After install, it will always be possible to adjust your security settings in the Security part of the Mageia Control Center.

Summary - Links

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