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<h2 class="title"><a name="installer"></a>DrakX, the Mageia Installer
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<p>Whether you are new to GNU-Linux or an experienced user, the Mageia
Installer is designed to help make your installation or upgrade as easy as
possible.
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<p>The initial menu screen has various options, however the default one
will start the installer, which will normally be all that you will
need.
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<p>If there are problems during install, then it may be necessary to use
special installation options, see <a class="xref" href="installer.html#installationOptions" title="Installation options">the section called “Installation options”</a>.
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<p>The install process is divided into a number of steps, which can be
followed on the side panel of the screen.
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<p>Each step has one or more screens which may also have
<span class="guibutton">Advanced</span> buttons with extra, less commonly
required, options.
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<p>Most screens have <span class="guibutton">Help</span> buttons which give
further explanations about the current step.
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<p>If somewhere during install you decide to stop the installation,
it is possible to reboot, but please think twice before you do this.
Once a partition has been formatted or updates have started to be
installed, your computer is no longer in the same state and rebooting it
could very well leave you with an unusable system. If in spite of this
you are very sure rebooting is what you want, go to a text terminal by
pressing the three keys <span class="guibutton">Alt Ctrl F2</span> at the same
time. After that, press <span class="guibutton">Alt Ctrl Delete</span>
simultaneously to reboot.
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<p>If the installation fails then it may be necessary to try again by
using one of the extra options available by hitting the <span class="guibutton">F1
(Help)</span> key see <a class="xref" href="installer.html#dx-welcome" title="Figure 1. Installation Welcome Screen">Figure 1, “Installation Welcome Screen”</a></p>
<p>This will open the following text based help.</p>
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<h4 class="title"><a name="installationProblems"></a>Installation Problems and
Possible Solutions
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<h5 class="title"><a name="noX"></a>No Graphical Interface
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<p>After the initial screen you did not reach the language
selection screen. This can happen with some graphic cards and
older systems. Try using low resolution by typing
<code class="code">vgalo</code> at the prompt.
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<p>If the hardware is very old, a graphical installation may
not be possible. In this case it is worth trying a text mode
installation. To use this, type <code class="code">text</code> at the prompt.
<span class="emphasis"><em>Note: This mode may not work in Mageia
2.</em></span></p>
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<h5 class="title"><a name="installFreezes"></a>The Install Freezes
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<p>If the system appeared to freeze during the installation, this
may be a problem with hardware detection. In this case the automatic
detection of hardware may be bypassed and dealt with later. To try
this, type <code class="code">noauto</code> at the prompt. This option may also be
combined with other options as necessary.
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<h5 class="title"><a name="kernelOptions"></a>Kernel Options
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<p>These will rarely be needed, but in some cases the hardware may
report the available RAM incorrectly. To specify this manually, you
can use the <code class="code">mem=xxxM</code> parameter, where xxx is the correct
amount of RAM. e.g. <code class="code">mem=256M</code> would specify 256MB of
RAM.
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