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# Installation from LIVE medium

### Note

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.

The texts and screenshots in this manual are available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

This manual was produced with the help of the Calenco CCMS.

It was written by volunteers in their free time. Please contact the Documentation Team, if you would like to help improve this manual.

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- 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
- Boot Mageia as Live system
  - Booting the medium
  - In BIOS/CSM/Legacy mode
  - In UEFI mode
- Please choose a language to use
- License and Release Notes
  - License Agreement
  - Release Notes
- Configure your Timezone
- Clock Settings
- Select Keyboard
- Testing Mageia as Live system
  - Live mode
    - Testing hardware
    - Launch installation
- Partitioning
  - Suggested Partitioning
  - Choose the mount points
  - Confirm hard disk to be formatted
  - Custom Disk Partitioning with DiskDrake
  - Formatting
- Keep or delete unused material
- 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
- Updates
- Reboot
- User Management
  - Set Administrator (root) Password:
  - Enter a user
- Login Screen
- Uninstalling Mageia

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