Install or Upgrade

  • Install

    Use this option to perform a fresh installation of Mageia. This will format the root partition (/), but can preserve a separated /home partition.

  • Upgrade

    This can be used to upgrade an existing installation of Mageia.

    Warning

    Only upgrading from a previous Mageia version that was still supported when this installer's version was released, has been thoroughly tested. If you want to upgrade a Mageia version that has reached its End Of Life, then it is better to do a clean install instead while preserving your /home partition.

Note

If 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 isn't in the same state anymore and rebooting it could very well leave you with an unusable system. If in spite of that, and only if you are very sure rebooting is what you want, go to a text terminal by pressing Alt Ctrl F2 simultaneously. After that, press Alt Ctrl Delete simultaneously to reboot.

Tip

If you have discovered that you forgot to select an additional language, you can return from the Install or Upgrade screen to the language choice screen by pressing Alt Ctrl Home simultaneously. Do not do this later in the install.


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