Mageia is distributed via ISO images. This page will help you to
+ choose which image match your needs.
There is two families of media:
Classical installer: After booting the media, it will follow a
+ process allowing to choose what to install and how to configure your
+ target system. This give you the maximal flexibility for a customized
+ installation, in particular to choose which Desktop Environment you
+ will install.
LIVE media: you can boot the media in a real Mageia system
+ without installing it, to see what you will get after installation.
+ The installation process is simpler, but you get lesser
+ choices.
Details are given in the next sections.
Media
Definition
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.
These ISOs use the traditional installer called
+ drakx.
They are able to make a clean install or an update from
+ previous releases.
DVD
Different media for architecture 32 or 64 bits.
Some tools are available in the Welcome screen: Rescue
+ System, Memory Test, Hardware Detection Tool.
Each DVD contains many available desktop environments and
+ languages.
You'll be given the choice during the installation to add
+ non free software.
DVD dual arch
Both architectures are present on the same medium, the
+ choice is made automatically according to the detected CPU.
Uses Xfce desktop only.
Not all languages are available. (be, bg, ca, de, en, es,
+ fr, it, mk, pl, pt, ru, sv, uk) TO BE CHECKED!
It contains non free software.
Live media
Common features
Can be used to preview the distribution without installing
+ it on a HDD, and optionally install Mageia on to your HDD.
Each ISO contains only one desktop environment (KDE or
+ GNOME).
Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.
Live ISOs can only be used to create
+ clean installations, they cannot be used to upgrade from previous
+ releases.
They contain non free software.
Live CD KDE
KDE desktop environment only.
English language only.
32 bit only.
Live CD GNOME
GNOME desktop environment only.
English language only.
32 bit only.
Live DVD KDE
KDE desktop environment only.
All languages are present.
Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.
Live DVD GNOME
GNOME desktop environment only.
All languages are present.
Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.
Boot-only CD media
Common features
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
+ Internet.
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.
Different media for 32 or 64 bit architectures.
English language only.
boot.iso
Contains only free software, for those people who refuse to
+ use non-free software.
boot-nonfree.iso
Contains non-free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for
+ people who need it.
Downloading and Checking Media
Downloading
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
md5sum and sha1sum are tools to check the ISO integrity. Use only
+ one of them. Keep one of them for further
+ usage. Then this window appears:
Check the radio button Save File.
Checking the downloaded media
+ integrity
Both checksums are hexadecimal numbers 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 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.
Open a console, no need to be root, and:
- To use md5sum, type: [sam@localhost]$ md5sum
+ path/to/the/image/file.iso.
- To use sha1sum, type: [sam@localhost]$ sha1sum
+ path/to/the/image/file.iso.
and compare the obtained number on your computer (you may have to
+ wait for a while) with the number given by Mageia. Example:
Burn or dump the ISO
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.
Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD
Use whatever burner you wish but ensure the burning device is set
+ correctly to burn an image, burn data
+ or files is not correct. There is more information in the
+ Mageia wiki.
Dump the ISO to a USB stick
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.
Warning
"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.
To recover the original capacity, you must redo partitioning and
+ re-format the USB stick.
It is advisable for all Mageia
+ installations to set a superuser or administrator's password, usually
+ called the root password in Linux. As you type a
+ password into the top box the colour of its shield will change from red to
+ yellow to green depending on the strength of the password. A green shield
+ shows you are using a strong password. You need to repeat the same
+ password in the box just below the first password box, this checks that
+ you have not mistyped the first password by comparing them.
Note
All passwords are case sensitive, it is best to use a mixture of
+ letters (upper and lower case), numbers and other characters in a
+ password.
Enter a user
Add a user here. A user has fewer rights than the superuser (root),
+ but enough to surf the internet, use office applications or play games and
+ anything else the average user does with his computer
Icon: if you click on this button it will
+ change the users icon.
Real Name: Insert the users real name into
+ this text box.
Login Name: Here you enter the user login
+ name or let drakx use a version of the users real name. The
+ login name is case sensitive.
Password: In this text box you should type
+ in the user password. There is a shield at the end of the text box
+ that indicates the strength of the password. (See also Note)
Password (again): Retype the user password
+ into this text box and drakx will check you have the same password in
+ each of the user password text boxes.
Note
Any user you add while installing Mageia, will have a world
+ readable (but write protected) home directory.
However, while using your new install, any user you add in
+ MCC - System - Manage users on system will have a
+ home directory that is both read and write protected.
If you don't want a world readable home directory for anyone, it
+ is advised to only add a temporary user now and to add the real one(s)
+ after reboot.
If you prefer world readable home directories, you might want to
+ add all extra needed users in the Configuration -
+ Summary step during the install. Choose User
+ management.
The access permissions can also be changed after the
+ install.
Here you see the Linux partitions that have been found on your
+ computer. If you don't agree with the DrakX
+ suggestions, you can change the mount points.
Note
If you change anything, make sure you still have a
+ / (root) partition.
Every partition is shown as follows: "Device" ("Capacity", "Mount
+ point", "Type").
"Device", is made up of: "hard drive", ["hard drive
+ number"(letter)], "partition number" (for example, "sda5").
If you have many partitions, you can choose many different mount
+ points from the drop down menu, such as /,
+ /home and /var. You can even make
+ your own mount points, for instance /video for a
+ partition where you want to store your films, or
+ /cauldron-home for the /home
+ partition of a cauldron install.
For partitions you don't need to have access to, you can leave the
+ mount point field blank.
Warning
Choose Previous if you are not sure what to
+ choose, and then tick Custom disk partitioning. In
+ the screen that follows, you can click on a partition to see its type
+ and size.
If you are sure the mount points are correct, click on
+ Next, and choose whether you only want to format the
+ partition(s) DrakX suggests, or more.
You can boot directly from the media you used to burn your image
+ (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM...). You usually just need to insert it in your CD/DVD
+ drive for the bootloader to launch the installation automatically after
+ rebooting the computer. If that does not happen you may need to
+ reconfigure your BIOS or press one key that will offer you to choose the
+ peripheral from which the computer will boot.
According to which hardware you have, and how it is configured,
+ you get either one or another of the two screens below.
From a USB device
You can boot from the USB device on which you dumped your image
+ ISO. According to your BIOS settings, the computer boots perhaps
+ directly on the USB device already plugged in a port. If that does not
+ happen you may need to reconfigure your BIOS or press one key that will
+ offer you to choose the peripheral from which the computer will
+ boot.
In BIOS/CSM/Legacy mode
First screen while booting in BIOS mode
In the middle menu, you have the choice between three
+ actions:
Boot Mageia: That means Mageia 5 will start from the connected
+ media (CD/DVD or USB stick) without writing anything on the disk, so
+ expect a very slow system. Once the boot is done, you can proceed to
+ the installation on a hard disk.
Install Mageia: This choice will directly install Mageia on a
+ hard disk.
Boot from hard disk: This choice allows to boot from hard disk,
+ as usual, when no media (CD/DVD or USB stick) is connected. (not
+ working with Mageia 5).
In the bottom menu, are the Boot Options:
F1 - Help. Explain the options "splash", "apm", "acpi" and
+ "Ide"
F2 - Language. Choose the display language of the
+ screens.
F4 - CD-Rom. CD-Rom or Other. Normally, the installation is
+ performed from the inserted installation medium. Here, select other
+ sources, like FTP or NFS servers. If the installation is carried out
+ in a network with an SLP server, select one of the installation
+ sources available on the server with this option.
F5 - Driver. Yes or No. The system is aware about the presence
+ of an optional disk with a driver update and will require its
+ insertion during installation process.
F6 - Kernel options. This is a way to specify options according
+ to your hardware and the drivers to use.
In UEFI mode
First screen while booting on UEFI system from disk
You have only the choice to run Mageia in Live mode (first choice)
+ or to process the installation (second choice).
If you booted from a USB stick, you get two supplemental lines which
+ are a duplicata of the previous lines suffixed with "USB". You have to
+ choose them.
In each case, the first steps will be the same to choose language,
+ timezone and keyboard, then the processes differ, with additional steps in Live mode.
If you wish to use encryption on
+ your / partition you must ensure that you have a
+ separate /boot partition. The encryption option for the
+ /boot partition must NOT be set, otherwise your system
+ will be unbootable.
Adjust the layout of your disk(s)
+ here. You can remove or create partitions, change the filesystem of a
+ partition or change its size and even view what is in them before you
+ start.
There is a tab for every detected
+ hard disk or other storage device, like an USB key. For example sda, sdb and
+ sdc if there are three of them.
Push Clear
+ all to wipe all partitions on the selected storage device
For all other actions: click on
+ the desired partition first. Then view it, or choose a filesystem and a
+ mount point, resize it or wipe it.
Continue until you adjusted
+ everything to your wishes.
Click Done
+ when you're ready.
Note
If you are installing Mageia on an UEFI system, check that an ESP
+ (EFI System Partition) is present and correctly mounted on /boot/EFI (see
+ above)
In this screen you can see
+ the content of your hard drive(s) and see the solutions the DrakX
+ partitioning wizard found for where to install
+ Mageia.
The options available from
+ the list below will vary depending on your particular hard drive(s) layout
+ and content.
Use Existing
+ Partitions
If this option is
+ available, then existing Linux compatible partitions have been found
+ and may be used for the installation.
Use Free Space
If you have unused
+ space on your hard drive then this option will use it for your new
+ Mageia installation.
Use Free Space on a
+ Windows Partition
If you have unused
+ space on an existing Windows partition, the installer may offer to use
+ it.
This can be a useful
+ way of making room for your new Mageia installation, but is a risky
+ operation so you should make sure you have backed up all important
+ files!
Note that this
+ involves shrinking the size of the Windows partition. The partition
+ must be "clean", meaning that Windows must have closed down correctly
+ the last time it was used. It must also have been defragmented,
+ although this is not a guarantee that all files in the partition have
+ been moved out of the area that is about to be used. It is highly
+ recommended to back up your personal files.
With this option, the installer displays the remaining Windows
+ partition in light blue and the future Mageia partition in dark blue
+ with their intended sizes just under. You have the possibility to
+ adapt these sizes by clicking and dragging the gap between both
+ partitions. See the screen-shot below.
Erase and use Entire
+ Disk.
This option will use
+ the complete drive for Mageia.
Note! This will
+ erase ALL data on the selected hard drive. Take care!
If you intend to use
+ part of the disk for something else, or you already have data on the
+ drive that you are not prepared to lose, then do not use this
+ option.
Custom
This gives you
+ complete control over the placing of the installation on your hard
+ drive(s).
Partitions sizing:
The installer will share the available place out according to the
+ following rules:
If the total available place is lower than 50 GB, only one
+ partition is created for /, there is no separate partition for
+ /home.
If the total available place is over 50 GB, then three
+ partitions are created
6/19 of the total available place is allocated to / with a
+ maximum of 50 GB
1/19 is allocated to swap with a maximum of 4 GB
the rest (at least 12/19) is allocated to /home
That means that from 160 GB and over of available place, the installer
+ will create three partitions: 50 GB for /, 4 GB for swap and the rest for
+ /home.
Note
If you are using an UEFI system, the ESP (EFI System Partition) will
+ be automatically detected, or created if it does not exist yet, and
+ mounted on /boot/EFI. The "Custom" option is the only one that allows to
+ check it has been correctly done
Warning
Some newer drives are now using 4096 byte logical sectors, instead
+ of the previous standard of 512 byte logical sectors. Due to lack of
+ available hardware, the partitioning tool used in the installer has not
+ been tested with such a drive. Also some ssd drives now use an erase block
+ size over 1 MB. We suggest to pre-partition the drive, using an
+ alternative partitioning tool like gparted, if you own such a device, and
+ to use the following settings:
"Align to" "MiB"
"Free space preceding (MiB)" "2"
Also make sure all partitions are created with an even number of
+ megabytes.
Here you can choose which
+ partition(s) you wish to format. Any data on partitions not
+ marked for formatting will be saved.
Usually at least the
+ partitions DrakX selected, need to be formatted
Click on
+ Advanced to choose partitions you want to check for
+ so called bad blocks
Tip
If you're not sure you
+ have made the right choice, you can click on
+ Previous, again on Previous
+ and then on Custom to get back to the main screen.
+ In that screen you can choose to view what is in your partitions.
When you are confident
+ about the selection, click on Next to
+ continue.
No one will see all the installer screens that you see in this
+ manual. Which screens you will see, depends on your hardware and the
+ choices you make while installing.
Enter your user name and user password, and in a few seconds you will
+ find yourself with a loaded KDE or GNOME desktop, depending on which live
+ medium you used. You can now start using your Mageia installation.
You can find another part of our documentation in the Mageia
+ wiki.
Once the bootloader has been installed, you will be prompted to halt
+ your computer, remove the live CD and restart the computer. When you
+ restart, you will see a succession of download progress bars. These indicate
+ that the software media are being downloaded (see Software
+ management).
You will be required to set the keyboard layout you wish to use in
+ Mageia​​. The default one is selected according to your language and
+ timezone previously selected.
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+
+ Please choose a language to use
Select your preferred language, by first expanding the list for your
+ continent. Mageia will use this selection during
+ the installation and for your installed system.
Mageia uses UTF-8 (Unicode) support by default.
You can change the language of your system after installation in
+ the Mageia Control Center -> System -> Manage localization for
+ your system.
If you prefer different
+ bootloader settings to those chosen automatically by the installer, you
+ can change them here.
You may already have
+ another operating system on your machine, in which case you need to decide
+ whether to add Mageia to your existing bootloader, or allow Mageia to
+ create a new one.
Tip
The Mageia graphical menus are nice :
Using a Mageia
+ bootloader
By default, Mageia
+ writes a new GRUB (legacy) bootloader into the MBR (Master Boot Record)
+ of your first hard drive. If you already have other operating systems
+ installed, Mageia attempts to add them to your new Mageia boot
+ menu.
Mageia now also offers GRUB2 as an optional
+ bootloader in addition to GRUB legacy and Lilo.
Warning
Linux systems which
+ use the GRUB2 bootloader are not currently supported by GRUB (legacy)
+ and will not be recognized if the default GRUB bootloader is
+ used.
The best solution here is to use the GRUB2
+ bootloader which is available at the Summary page during
+ installation.
Using an
+ existing bootloader
If you decide to use an
+ existing bootloader then you will need to remember to STOP at the
+ summary page during the installation and click the Bootloader
+ Configure button, which will allow you to change
+ the bootloader install location.
Do not select a device
+ e.g."sda", or you will overwrite your existing MBR. You must select the
+ root partition that you chose during the partitioning phase earlier,
+ e.g. sda7.
To be clear, sda is a
+ device, sda7 is a partition on that device.
Tip
Go to tty2 with
+ Ctrl+Alt+F2 and type df to check where your
+ / (root) partition is. Ctrl+Alt+F7 takes you back
+ to the installer screen.
The exact procedure for
+ adding your Mageia system to an existing bootloader is beyond the scope
+ of this help, however in most cases it will involve running the relevant
+ bootloader installation program which should detect and add it
+ automatically. See the documentation for the operating system in
+ question.
Bootloader
+ advanced option
If you have very
+ limited disk space for the / partition that contains
+ /tmp, click on Advanced and
+ check the box for Clean /tmp at each boot. This
+ helps to maintain some free space.
With an UEFI system
With an UEFI system, the user interface is slightly different as you
+ cannot choose the boot loader since only Grub2-efi is available.
If Mageia is the first system installed on your computer, the
+ installer created an ESP (EFI System Partition) to receive the bootloader
+ (Grub2-efi). If there was already UEFI operating systems previously
+ installed on your computer (Windows 8 for example), the Mageia installer
+ detected the existing ESP created by Windows and added grub2-efi. Although
+ it is possible to have several ESPs, only one is advised and enough
+ whatever the number of operating systems you have.
Don't modify the "Boot Device" unless really knowing what you
+ do.
You can add an entry or modify the one you select first, by pressing
+ the relevant button in the Bootloader Configuration
+ screen and editing the screen that pops up on top of it.
Note
If you have chosen Grub 2 as your bootloader, you
+ cannot use this tool to edit entries at this step, press 'Next'. You
+ need to manually edit /boot/grub2/custom.cfg or use
+ grub-customizer instead.
Some things that can be done without any risk, are changing the
+ label of an entry and ticking the box to make an entry the default
+ one.
You can add the proper version number of an entry, or rename it
+ completely.
The default entry is the one the systems boots into if you don't
+ make a choice while booting up.
Warning
Editing other things can leave you with an unbootable system.
+ Please don't just try something without knowing what you are
+ doing.
With an UEFI system
In this case you are using Grub2-efi and you cannot use this tool to
+ edit entries at this step. To do that you need to manually edit
+ /boot/grub2/custom.cfg or use grub-customizer
+ instead. All you can do here, is to choose the default entry in the drop
+ down list.
After a click on the Next button, another
+ drop down list allows to choose the video resolution for Grub2 which is a
+ graphical boot loader.
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+ Confirm hard disk to be formatted
You get this screen if you selected "Boot Mageia". If not, you get
+ the "Partitioning step"
Testing hardware
One of the Live mode goals is to test if the hardware is
+ correctly managed by Mageia. You can check if all devices have a driver in
+ the Hardware section of the Mageia Control Center. You can test the most
+ current devices:
network interface: configure it with net_applet
graphical card: if you see the previous screen, it's already
+ OK.
webcam:
sound: a jingle has already been played
printer: configure it and print a test page
scanner: scan a document from ...
If all is OK for you, you can process to the installation. If not,
+ you can leave with the quit button.
The configuration settings you made here are kept for the
+ installation.
Launch installation
To launch the installation of Mageia LiveCD or Live DVD to the hard disc or
+ SSD drive, simply click on the icon "Install on Hard Disk". You will get
+ this screen, and then the "Partitioning step" as for the direct
+ installation.
If Mageia didn't convince you or you can't install it correctly, in
+ short you want get rid of it. That is your right and Mageia also gives you
+ the possibility to uninstall. This is not true for every operating
+ system.
After your data backup, reboot your installation Mageia DVD and select Rescue
+ system, then, Restore Windows boot loader. At the next boot, you will only
+ have Windows with no option to choose your operating system.
To recover the space used by Mageia partitions on Windows, click on
+ Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer
+ Management -> Storage -> Disk Management to access to the
+ partition management. You will recognize the Mageia partition because they
+ are labeled Unknown, and also by their size and place
+ in the disk. Right click on each of these partitions and select
+ Delete. The space will be freed.
If you are using Windows XP, you can create a new partition and format it (FAT32
+ or NTFS). It will get a partition letter.
If you have Vista or 7, you have one more possibility, you can
+ extend the existing partition that is at the left of the freed space.
+ There are other partitioning tools that can be used, such as gparted,
+ available for both windows and linux. As always, when changing partitions,
+ be very careful, and make sure all important things have been backed
+ up.
In this step, the installer looks for unused locales packages and
+ unused hardware packages. Then it proposes you to delete them. It is a good
+ idea to accept, except if you prepare an installation which has to run on
+ different hardware.
The next step is the copying of files on hard disk. This takes some
+ minutes. At the end, you get a blank screen for some time, it's
+ normal.