Mageia 4 Linux based OS installation from Live DVD GNOME. This presentation shows in details how to install Mageia 4 (Linux based OS) in a simple way. There are a few attachments created for better explanations of some items.

1. Mageia 4 InstallationMageia 4 Installation
This presentation is about Mageia 4 installation from Mageia-
4-LiveDVD-GNOME-i586-DVD.iso.
The installation was made by using Virtual Box. Extra
attention required for installing Mageia 4 on a real computer
using this presentation.
Installation process may be different on different computers.
All screenshots used in this presentation are on flickr.
P.S. UEFI boot isn't covered in this presentation.

2. Mageia 4 Installation: running Live DVDMageia 4 Installation: running Live DVD
● Our presentation
Running Mageia 4, LiveDVD-GNOME
may help to burn Mageia 4
DVD and run it.
● When we've got to
GNOME screen, we click
Activities.

3. Mageia 4 Installation: Install on Hard DiskMageia 4 Installation: Install on Hard Disk
● The GNOME screen looks
different now.
● The very top icon on left is
direct link for Mageia
installation - Install on Hard
Disk
● We have to click it to begin
installation.

4. Mageia 4 Installation: Mageia LiveMageia 4 Installation: Mageia Live
● The very first installation
windows is Mageia Live.
Many new windows will
leave this window title bar
open and run in separate
window below.

5. Mageia 4 installation: suggestionsMageia 4 installation: suggestions
● This step may have variety
of choices depending on
computer we are installing
Mageia on.
● Default suggestions is to
install Mandriva on Windows
partition.
● PS. Pay attention to Mageia
suggestion about Mageia
installation size (6GB).

6. Mageia 4 installation: custom partitioningMageia 4 installation: custom partitioning
● We choose Custom disk
partitioning for this
presentation.

7. Mageia 4 installation: backup suggestionMageia 4 installation: backup suggestion
● Mageia suggest to back up
your data first.
● Default is Continue and we
need to press OK botton.

8. Mageia 4 installation: disk structureMageia 4 installation: disk structure
● Next screen shows computer
hard disk drive (HDD, later
disk) structure.
● Our disk structure is simple:
the whole disk (sda) contains
Windows partition only.
● P.S. Actual disk may have very
complicated disk structure.
Slide 43 has an example of
complicated disk structure.

9. Mageia 4 installation: disk structure informationMageia 4 installation: disk structure information
● Click on disk gives us
more information about
disk partitioning.
● Our disk sda has only one
partition: 7.9GB big
Windows partition with
Filesystem Type NTFS-3G.
● We click Rezise now.

10. Mageia 4 installation: partition resizing warningMageia 4 installation: partition resizing warning
● We need to resize existing
partition to create space
for Mageia installation.
● Clicking Resize (see
previous slide) will give us
back up warning.

11. Mageia 4 installation: partition resize defaultMageia 4 installation: partition resize default
● Partition resize default window
is set for existing partition size
– 8188MB (7.9GB, see slide 9)
in our case.
● We need to make it smaller
and create 6GB empty space
for Mageia installation (check
slide 5 for Mageia installation
size suggestion).

12. Mageia 4 installation: resize partition to customMageia 4 installation: resize partition to custom
sizesize
● When we move slider to left we
create empty space.
● Pay attention! Mageia doesn't
calculate the size we are
emptying so we have to make
sure it's 6GB big or bigger.
● Our presentation empty space will
be 6822MB (8188 [original size,
see previous slide] - 1366 [current
slider position] = 6822). 6822MB
is 6.6GB, see slide 14).

13. Mageia 4 installation: Windows filesystem checksMageia 4 installation: Windows filesystem checks
warningwarning
● After we click OK on
previous slide, there is
“Windows filesystem
checks warning”.
● We have to click OK again.

14. Mageia 4 installation: partition resized defaultMageia 4 installation: partition resized default
● Finally, we've resized
Windows partition to
1.3GB and created Empty
space.
● If there is any concern
about Windows partition
size, see slide 44 for some
information.

15. Mageia 4 installation: empty spaceMageia 4 installation: empty space
● Click on empty space
gives some information
about it and an option to
create a new partition by
clicking Create.

16. Mageia 4 installation: create new partition defaultMageia 4 installation: create new partition default
●
Default create screen is set forDefault create screen is set for
partition size and filesystempartition size and filesystem
type. It gives some suggestivetype. It gives some suggestive
number (647MB here) fornumber (647MB here) for
partition creation.partition creation.
●
For our installation, we want toFor our installation, we want to
create single partitioncreate single partition
occupying all empty space withoccupying all empty space with
ext4 filesystem type.ext4 filesystem type.

17. Mageia 4 installation: create new custom partitionMageia 4 installation: create new custom partition
● We increased partition size to
maximum (6832MB) and left
default filesystem type (ext4)
unchanged.
● Pay attention! For some
reason we created 6822MB
empty space (see slide 12)
and here it is 6832MB big.
● How to choose different
filesystem type - see slide 45.

18. Mageia 4 installation: new partition mounting pointMageia 4 installation: new partition mounting point
● Click on Mount point bar
gives an options to select
mount point.
● For this presentation we
choose to mount new
partition as root (/).

19. Mageia 4 installation: create new partitionMageia 4 installation: create new partition
finalizingfinalizing
● Now we are ready to
create a new partition with
ext4 filesystem type and
mount it as root (/).

20. Mageia 4 installation: new partition createdMageia 4 installation: new partition created
● Clicking OK on previous
slide creates new partition
sda5 with ext4 filesystem
type, mounted as root (/),
and not formatted.
● Clicking Done will give us
final warning.

21. Mageia 4 installation: final warningMageia 4 installation: final warning
● Pay attention! It is still
possible to quit installation.
Everything we've done so
far will return back to
original state (see slide 5).
● Clicking OK will change disk
structure irreversibly and
start installation process.

22. Mageia 4 installation: no swap warningMageia 4 installation: no swap warning
● Our Mandriva installation
doesn't use swap partition.
● It's possible disregard this
warning by clicking Next.
● P.S. Anyone interested in swap
creation may watch our
presentation
Mageia1 GNOME installation.

23. Mageia 4 installation: unused packagesMageia 4 installation: unused packages
● Before starting actual
installation, Mandriva
checks computer hardware
and finds out what
packages don't need to be
installed.

24. Mageia 4 installation: unused packag defaultMageia 4 installation: unused packag default
● Now we have an option not
to install selected
packages by clicking Next,
(default choice) or install it
anyway by clicking Skip.

25. Mageia 4 installation: installation screenMageia 4 installation: installation screen
● Mageia installation screen
runs all the time while
installation is running.
● Empty bar at the bottom
fills with blue color to show
installation progress.

26. Mageia 4 installation: back to live DVDMageia 4 installation: back to live DVD
● Installation may run so long
that live DVD could turn on
“screensaver”. Instead of
having installation image (see
previous slide) we may see
image similar to one on right.
● We need to press a keyboard
key to return back to running
process.

27. Mageia 4 installation: bootloader installationMageia 4 installation: bootloader installation
defaultdefault
● Next stop is bootloader installation.
● Default bootloader installation will
replace existing Windows bootloader
with GRUB and make Mageia default
Operating System.
● We can change it later or simply boot
Windows from the menu at the boot
time (see slide 29 for an example).
● Pay attention: Unified Extensible
Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot is not
covered in this presentation.

28. Mageia 4 installation: boot menu defaultMageia 4 installation: boot menu default
● Default boot menu looks
like this.
● We can change boot order
by selecting an item and
moving it up and down.

29. Mageia 4 installation: corresponding bootingMageia 4 installation: corresponding booting
menumenu
● Boot menu on previous
slide looks like this on real
system when we boot it.
● Pay attention! Instead of
four boot lines (see
previous slide) we see only
three boot lines here.

30. Mageia 4 installation: the last messageMageia 4 installation: the last message
● Finally, installation is
finished and we need to
reboot computer.
● We have to click Finish
now.

31. Mageia 4 installation: back to live DVDMageia 4 installation: back to live DVD
● Now we are back to live
DVD GNOME screen.
● Click on top right corner
lets us to reboot computer
by pressing power button.

32. Mageia 4 installation: power off live DVDMageia 4 installation: power off live DVD
● By default Mageia powers
our system off in one
minute.
● We could choose to restart
the system instead.

33. Mageia 4 installation: remove live DVDMageia 4 installation: remove live DVD
● After exiting GUI, we get
message about removing
live DVD and pressing
Enter key.

34. Mageia 4 installation: booting new installationMageia 4 installation: booting new installation
● When we reboot system,
our screen looks different
with Mageia background
image only.

35. Mageia 4 installation: updating new installationMageia 4 installation: updating new installation
● We immediately have
messages about
downloading something
because our system is
connected to Internet
already.
● Downloading may take
some time.

36. Mageia 4 installation: setting root passwordMageia 4 installation: setting root password
● Finally, we've got screen
where we create users and
passwords.
● Root user is created
automatically. We need to
create password for it.

37. Mageia 4 installation: root password strengthMageia 4 installation: root password strength
● Mageia evaluate root
password strength.
● Good quality password has
green color shield.
● We need to enter the same
password second time.

38. Mageia 4 installation: creating userMageia 4 installation: creating user
● We create user user_one.
Mageia automatically
creates login name
user_one.
● Password is different than
root password and have
the same strength as root
password - green shield.

39. Mageia 4 installation: user_one loginMageia 4 installation: user_one login
● Now Mageia gives us login
screen for user_one.
● We have to click on
user_one bar to be able to
login.

40. Mageia 4 installation: user_one passwordMageia 4 installation: user_one password
● There is the password bar
now.
● We enter the password
just created for user_one
(see slide 38) and click
Sign in or press the Enter
key.

41. Mageia 4 installation: finishedMageia 4 installation: finished
● Finally we are logged in
and started using just
installed Mageia 4.

42. Mageia 4 installation: attachmentsMageia 4 installation: attachments
Those attachments are created for this presentations only.
They may give a little bit better descriptions of some
processes described before.

43. Mageia 4: disk structure exampleMageia 4: disk structure example
● This disk has 1TB size.
● It has Windows and a few Linux
OSs installed on regular
partitions.
● There are several more LVM
partitions (Stable, Testing, ISO,
and backup) created for different
reasons.
● Two additional disks connected
to computer are sdb and sdg.

44. Mageia 4 Installation: Windows partition concernsMageia 4 Installation: Windows partition concerns
This presentation is about Mageia installation. 6GB space is
required to install Mageia and we created it.
When we create empty space (see slide 14) Windows space
is reduced to 1.3GB. We can't install or run Windows on such
small partition.
However, if we have 8GB big disk with Windows installed
there and we want to install Mageia Linux OS on the same
disk, the disk is two small to have them both at the same
time.
On a real computer, we just create 6GB empty space for
Mageia installation.

45. Mageia 4 installation: choosing filesystem type
● Click on Filesystem type
bar let us select filesystem
type we want.
● This image shows a dozen
of available options.
● We have ext4 filesystem
type as default and we left
it unchanged (see slide 17).