The latest Mageia 8 is available as a "classic installation" variant that lets you install it but not trying it beforehand, "Live Media" editions with a live environment you can use to test it, and optionally install it, and a very small (just 50 MiB) "Network installation" image. The "Live Media" images are available in variants with KDE Plasma, GNOME and Xfce.
Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux distribution which is discontinued permanently few years ago. Mageia is the community driven, non-profit project developed by a group of former Mandriva developers. It is currently becoming the most popular successor of Mandriva Linux distribution and holds the ‘sixth’ rank in Distrowatch. Unlike Mandriva, which is commercial entity, Mageia is completely free and open source. Mageia 8 is the good distro for those who are looking for modern and elegant mandriva based OS. Mageia is shaped for its users, and is therefore suitable in any environment: work, home, servers, leisure etc.
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- 32-bit processor.
- 512MB RAM (memory).
- 20GB disk space.
DOWNLOAD MAGEIA 8 LINUX AND ETCHER TOOL
You need an ISO image of Mageia 8 Linux. You can Download it from the Official Mageia 8 Linux download page. You also need a 16GB USB drive which will be used as a bootable installation medium.
To install Mageia 8 Linux, you need to write your downloaded ISO to a USB stick to create the installation media. This is not the same as copying the ISO, and requires some bespoke software.
For this tutorial, we’ll use balenaEtcher, as it runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Choose the version that corresponds to your current operating system, download and install the tool.
CREATE A BOOTABLE USB STICK
Step 1: Insert the USB flash drive into your computer.
Step 2: Double-click on the balenaEtcher download file to run the app. Press Flash from file to select the downloaded Mageia 8 ISO file on your computer.
Step 3: Press Select target and choose the correct USB flash drive from the list.
Step 4: Press Flash! to begin writing Mageia 8 Linux to the USB flash drive.
For this tutorial, we’ll use balenaEtcher, as it runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Choose the version that corresponds to your current operating system, download and install the tool.
CREATE A BOOTABLE USB STICK
Step 2: Double-click on the balenaEtcher download file to run the app. Press Flash from file to select the downloaded Mageia 8 ISO file on your computer.
Step 4: Press Flash! to begin writing Mageia 8 Linux to the USB flash drive.
After a few minutes, the USB flash drive will be ready for booting into Mageia 8 Linux.
MAGEIA 8 LINUX INSTALLATION GUIDE
Step 1: Insert the USB flash drive into your computer.
Step 2: While the system would restart and initialize start pressing F9 (or Del or F10 or F12 or Esc) to display Boot Menu. The key could be different on different make and model, try other keys as per Make and Model of your machine.
Step 3: From the Boot Menu, select Flash Drive as Boot Device and Hit Enter. It may be at different serial number in different systems. Wait for the system to Boot from the Flash Drive.
Step 5: In the first part of the installer, you must choose your language. Look through the list of languages and Select language English (American), or any language you want then click Next.
Step 6: Next, you must agree to the user license. Look through and read it by scrolling with your mouse wheel or the arrow keys. Once you’ve read it, select Accept and click Next to move on to the next page in the installer.
Step 7: Next, you will need to select a keyboard layout. For most users, the installer will auto-detect your keyboard layout. However, if it doesn’t, look through the list of keyboard layouts and choose one, then select Next when done to move to the next page.
Step 8: Select the hard drive you wish to install Mageia onto in the menu next to Here is the content of your disk drive. Then, select the Erase and use entire disk option in the formatting menu, then Select Next to continue.
Step 9: Be warned that this will delete your entire hard disk! if yes click Next to move to the next step.
Step 11: Leave the default selections and press Next.
Step 12: Choose your workstation desktop profile, there are Plasma, GNOME and Custom, in this tutorial I will choose Plasma, then press Next to continue.
Step 14: Enter your administrator (root) user password and create a system user account, then press Next.
Step 15: Choose the monitor type and click Next.
Step 17: Next select Yes to get online updates or No to skip it, then press Next.
Step 18: That’s it. Mageia 8 has been installed. Click Reboot to use the newly installed Mageia 8.
Step 19: After reboot, in Mageia Boot Menu select First option Mageia and press Enter.
You landed to the Mageia 8 Desktop and is greeted by Welcome to Mageia.
WHAT TO DO AFTER INSTALLING MAGEIA 8 LINUX
Update Mageia 8 Linux using command line in the Terminal
Just as with any computer, you should update your Mageia system regularly. The MageiaUpdate tool is provided for this purpose. Like rpmdrake, MageiaUpdate can be run in several ways. From the Mageia Control Center, go to the Software Management tab, and click on 'Update your system' or you can run MageiaUpdate directly via the command MageiaUpdate.
Update Mageia 8 Linux using command line in the Terminal
Just as with any computer, you should update your Mageia system regularly. The MageiaUpdate tool is provided for this purpose. Like rpmdrake, MageiaUpdate can be run in several ways. From the Mageia Control Center, go to the Software Management tab, and click on 'Update your system' or you can run MageiaUpdate directly via the command MageiaUpdate.
let’s try and update the system using Konsole:
MageiaUpdate
Followed by your password.
MageiaUpdate
Followed by your password.
Follow the instructions to update the system.
VIDEO TUTORIAL - INSTALLATION GUIDE
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balenaEtcher-Portable-1.5.122
Mageia-8-x86_64.iso
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