Select and use ISOs

Select and use ISOs
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Select and use ISOs
Introduction
Mageia is distributed via ISO images. This page will help you to
choose which image best suits your needs.
There are three types of installation media:
Classical installer:
Booting
with this media provides you with the maximum flexibility when
choosing what to install, and for configuring your system. In
particular, you have a choice of which Desktop environment to
install.
LIVE media:
This option allows
you to try out Mageia without having to actually install it, or make
any changes to your computer. However, the Live media also includes an
Installer, which can be started when booting the media, or after
booting into the Live operating system itself.
Note
The Live Installer is simpler compared to the Classical
Installer - but you have fewer configuration options.
Important
Live ISOs can only be used to create
clean
installations, they cannot be used to upgrade previously installed
Mageia releases.
Net Install
: These are minimal
ISO's containing 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
if bandwidth is too low to download a full DVD, or if you have a PC
without a DVD drive or is unable to boot from a USB stick.
More 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
medium (DVD, USB stick, ...) the ISO file is copied to.
You can find Mageia ISO's
here
Classical installation media
Common features
These ISOs use the Classical installer called DrakX
They are used for performing clean installs or to upgrade a
previously installed version of Mageia
Different media for 32 and 64-bit architectures
Some tools are available in the Installer
Welcome
screen:
Rescue System, Memory
Test,
and
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
Live media
Common features
Can be used to preview the Mageia operating system without
having to install it
The Live media also includes an Installer.
Each ISO contains only one desktop environment (Plasma,
GNOME or Xfce)
Different media for 32 and 64-bit architectures
They contain non-free software
Live DVD Plasma
Plasma desktop environment only
All available languages are present
64-bit architecture only
Live DVD GNOME
GNOME desktop environment only
All available languages are present
64-bit architecture only
Live DVD Xfce
Xfce desktop environment only
All available languages are present
32 or 64-bit architectures
Net install media
Common features
Different media for 32 and 64-bit architectures
First steps are English language only
netinstall.iso
Contains only free software, for those who prefer to not use
non-free software
netinstall-nonfree.iso
Contains non-free software (mostly drivers, codecs...) for
those 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, you are provided with some
information, such as the mirror in use and an option to switch to an
alternative if the bandwidth is too low.
If http is chosen you will also see some information regarding
checksums.
md5sum
sha1sum
and
sha512sum
(the most secure) are tools to check the
ISO integrity. Copy one of the checksums (string of alphanumeric
characters) for use in the next section.
In the meantime, a window to download the actual ISO will
open:
Click on
Save File
, then click
OK
Checking the integrity of the downloaded
media
The checksums referred to earlier, are digital fingerprints
generated by an algorithm from the file to be downloaded. You may
compare the checksum of your downloaded ISO against that of the original
source ISO. If the checksums do not match, it means that the actual data
on the ISO's do not match, and if that is the case, then you should
retry the download or attempt a repair using BitTorrent.
To generate the checksum for your downloaded ISO, open a console,
(no need to be root), and:
To use the md5sum, type:
md5sum
path/to/the/image/file.iso
To use the sha1sum, type:
sha1sum
path/to/the/image/file.iso
To use the sha512sum, type:
sha512sum
path/to/the/image/file.iso
Example:
then compare the result (you may have to wait for a while) with
the ISO checksum provided by Mageia.
Burn or dump the ISO
The verified ISO can now be burned to a CD/DVD or
dumped
to a USB stick. This is not a standard copy
operation, as a bootable medium will actually be created.
Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD
Whichever software you use, ensure that the option to burn
an
image
is used. Burn
data
or
files
is NOT correct. See the
the
Mageia wiki
for more information.
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 that to boot and install the system.
Warning
Dumping an image onto a flash device destroys any previous
file-system on the device and all existing data will be lost.
Note
Also, the only partition on the flash device will then just be
the Mageia ISO partition.
So, if an ISO of about 4GB is written to an 8GB USB stick, the
stick will then only show up as 4GB. This is because the remaining 4GB
is no longer formatted - hence not currently available for use. To
recover the original capacity, you must reformat and repartition the
USB stick.
Using a graphical tool within Mageia
You can use a graphical tool like
IsoDumper
Using a graphical tool within Windows
You could try:
Rufus
using
the "ISO image" option
Win32
Disk Imager
Using the Command line within a GNU/Linux system
Warning
It is potentially *dangerous* to do this by hand. You risk
overwriting potentially valuable existing data if you specify the
wrong target device.
Open a console
Become a
root
(Administrator) user with
the command
su -
(don't forget the
Plug in your USB stick - but do not mount it (this also
means do not open any application or file manager that could
access or read it)
Enter the command
fdisk -l
Find the device name for your USB stick (by its size), for
example
/dev/sdb
in the screenshot above, is
an 8GB USB stick.
Alternatively, you can find the device name with the command
dmesg
. Towards the end of the following
example, you can see the device name starting with
sd
, and in this case,
sdd
is the actual device. You can also see
that its size is 2GB:
[72594.604531] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 27 using xhci_hcd
[72594.770528] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=8564, idProduct=1000
[72594.770533] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[72594.770536] usb 1-1: Product: Mass Storage Device
[72594.770537] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: JetFlash
[72594.770539] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 18MJTWLMPUCC3SSB
[72594.770713] usb 1-1: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 128 microframes, ep desc says 255 microframes
[72594.770719] usb 1-1: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 128 microframes, ep desc says 255 microframes
[72594.771122] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[72594.772447] scsi host8: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[72595.963238] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash Transcend 2GB 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[72595.963626] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] 4194304 512-byte logical blocks: (2.14 GB/2.00 GiB)
[72595.964104] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[72595.964108] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[72595.965025] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page found
[72595.965031] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[72595.967251]
sdd
: sdd1
[72595.969446] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
Enter the command:
dd if=path/to/the/ISO/file
of=/dev/sd
bs=1M
Where
=your device name eg:
/dev/sdd
Example:
dd
if=/home/user/Downloads/Mageia-6-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdd
bs=1M
Tip
It might be helpful to know that
if
stands for
nput
ile and
of
stands for
utput
ile
Enter the command:
sync
This is the end of the process, and you may now unplug your
USB stick.
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Contents
Select and use ISOs
Introduction
Media
Definition
Classical installation media
Common features
Live media
Common features
Live DVD Plasma
Live DVD GNOME
Live DVD Xfce
Net install media
Common features
netinstall.iso
netinstall-nonfree.iso
Downloading and Checking Media
Downloading
Checking the integrity of the downloaded
media
Burn or dump the ISO
Burning the ISO to a CD/DVD
Dump the ISO to a USB stick
Using a graphical tool within Mageia
Using a graphical tool within Windows
Using the Command line within a GNU/Linux system
DrakX, the Mageia Installer
The installation steps
Installation Welcome Screen
Legacy (BIOS) Systems
UEFI Systems
Installation Problems and Possible Solutions
No Graphical Interface
The Install Freezes
RAM problem
Dynamic partitions
Please choose a language to use
License and Release Notes
License Agreement
Release Notes
Setup SCSI
Install or Upgrade
Keyboard
Partitioning
Suggested Partitioning
Choose the mount points
Confirm hard disk to be
formatted
Custom Disk Partitioning with
DiskDrake
Formatting
Software
Media Selection
Supplemental Installation
Media
Available Media
Desktop Selection
Package Group Selection
Minimal Install
Choose Individual Packages
User Management
Set Administrator (root)
Password:
Enter a user
User Management (advanced)
Graphical Configuration
Graphics Card and Monitor
Configuration
Choose an X Server (Configure
your Graphic Card)
Choosing your Monitor
Bootloader
Available Bootloaders
Grub2
rEFInd
Bootloader Setup
Bootloader main options
Bootloader Configuration
Other Options
Using an existing bootloader
Installing Without a Bootloader
Add or Modify a Boot Menu
Entry
Configuration Summary
System parameters
Hardware parameters
Network and Internet
parameters
Security
Locale
Configure your Timezone
Select your Country / Region
Input method
Configure your Services
Select mouse
Sound Configuration
Advanced
Security Level
Firewall
Updates
Congratulations
Uninstalling Mageia