Hi,
These are the most commonly used and tested installation methods. You can expect these methods to work without problems.
[edit] Installation from CD / DVD
The most common method for installing Mandriva Linux is from CD or DVD, either bought in a box set from the Mandriva Store, or created from images downloaded from a Mandriva mirror site. In most cases, starting an install from CD or DVD is as simple as putting the disc (the first disc, in the case of multi-disc sets) into the drive and rebooting.
[edit] Mandriva Linux installation does not start when system is booted with CD or DVD in the drive
If you place the disc in the drive, reboot, and the system simply boots up as normal into whatever operating system is already installed, the problem is that your system is not configured to try booting from the CD / DVD drive before booting from the hard drive. To fix this you must enter the system (BIOS) setup utility. This is usually achieved by pressing a special key at the very start of the boot process, while the system is checking the memory. The key is often a function key, or the Delete key. The key will be displayed on the initial boot up screen and / or listed in your system manual. The exact process to change the boot device order will vary depending on the BIOS used by your system; if you cannot find the setting, please refer to your system manual. For one commonly used BIOS - Phoenix / Award - you should go to the 'Advanced BIOS Features' page and set the first boot device to be CD-ROM. Make the hard disk the second boot device.
[edit] Installation from Mandriva Linux One
Mandriva Linux One is a combined Live / installation CD edition of Mandriva Linux. When you boot from a Mandriva Linux One CD (by placing it in the drive and rebooting the system), Mandriva Linux One will run in live mode: it will run directly from the CD without installing anything to the hard disk. There is an icon on the default desktop which can be used to install Mandriva Linux One to the hard disk.
[edit] Installation from a local mirror, hard disk, local network, or the Internet
To install by using any of these methods, you should create a boot CD or a boot USB storage device. You do this by downloading an image file from a Mandriva mirror site and writing it to the disc or USB storage device. These files are located in the /i586/install/images or /x86_64/install/images directory for the release you wish to install. The boot CD image is named boot.iso, and the USB storage device image is named all.img. So, for example, the CD image file for the i586 edition of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring can be found as /MandrivaLinux/official/2008.1/i586 /install/images/boot.iso on any Mandriva mirror site.
To boot from the CD image, write it as an image (not as a file) to a CD or DVD recordable / rewriteable disc using your preferred CD / DVD writing software, then reboot with the disc in the drive. If the installation process does not start, refer to #Mandriva Linux installation does not start when system is booted with CD or DVD in the drive above.
To boot from a USB storage device, use the dd command (in Linux) to write the image to a USB storage device. You need to know the correct device node for the USB storage device - usually /dev/sda1, but it may be a different letter if you have other USB storage, SCSI or SATA devices in your system. It could also be that you have to write /dev/sda without a trailing number for it to work.
Be very careful, as copying the image to a SCSI or SATA hard disk will render it unbootable and destroy some data.
The command to use is dd if=all.img of=/dev/sda1, adjusting the device node as appropriate.
After writing the image, reboot the system with the USB storage device attached. To write the image file to a USB storage device in Windows, use WinImage. If the installation process does not start,
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Ajay Pal
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5:18 PM on June 02, 2008
