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<a accesskey="n" href="selectLanguage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table></div><div id="headerlogo"><img src="t-mageia-2011.png" alt="Company Logo"/></div><h1 id="pagetitle">DrakX, the Mageia Installer<br/> </h1></div><div id="content"><!----><div xml:lang="" class="section" title="DrakX, the Mageia Installer"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="installer"><!----></a>DrakX, the Mageia Installer</h2></div></div></div><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.</p><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.</p><div class="figure"><a id="dx-welcome"><!----></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 1. Installation Welcome Screen</b></p><div class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="images/dx-welcome.png" align="middle"/></div></div></div><br class="figure-break"/><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>.</p><div class="section" title="The installation steps"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="installationSteps"><!----></a>The installation steps</h3></div></div></div><p>The install process is divided into a number of steps, which can be
followed on the side panel of the screen.</p><p>Each step has one or more screens which may also have
<span class="guibutton">Advanced</span> buttons with extra, less commonly
required, options.</p><p>Most screens have <span class="guibutton">Help</span> buttons which give
further explanations about the current step.</p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><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.</p></div></div><div class="section" title="Installation options"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="installationOptions"><!----></a>Installation options</h3></div></div></div><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><div class="figure"><a id="dx-help"><!----></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 2. Installation Help
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Possible Solutions</h4></div></div></div><div class="section" title="No Graphical Interface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="noX"><!----></a>No Graphical Interface</h5></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><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.</p></li><li class="listitem"><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 hit ESC at the first welcome screen and
confirm with ENTER. You will be presented with a black screen with
the word "boot:". Type "text" and hit ENTER. Now continue with the
installation in text mode.<span class="emphasis"><em/></span></p></li></ul></div></div><div class="section" title="The Install Freezes"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="installFreezes"><!----></a>The Install Freezes</h5></div></div></div><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
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combined with other options as necessary.</p></div><div class="section" title="Kernel Options"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"><a id="kernelOptions"><!----></a>Kernel Options</h5></div></div></div><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
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