Hi,
On the main website, when you open the download page : http://mageia.org/en/downloads/
There is a dual arch CD
What is it ?
Shouldn't we put some explanation and description of the CD / DVD to explain the differences ?
Pierre
Mageia Dual arch ISO
This ISO also uses the drakx traditional installer like the DVD ISO. It's considered a minimal installation disc (a ~ 700MB CD ISO), the only desktop environment available on the ISO is LXDE[1]. The strongest point of the Dual arch ISO, is it can be used to install either a 32bit system or an x86_64 system, the installer defaults to x86_64 when it detects a 64bit-capable CPU, but you can select which architecture gets installed from the initial graphical GRUB menu.
This ISO is more for advanced users and system administrator for fast deployment of Mageia. As it uses the same drakx installer, you can add the online repositories during the installation to install more packages, desktop environments… etc.
Since this ISO is considered the smaller sister of the DVD ISO, it also contains only free-open-source software.
[1] The installer offers options to install KDE and GNOME, even though they're not on the ISO, as you can install them from the online sources (for this to work you have to set up the online sources in one of the previous steps during the installation).
jkerr82508 wrote:http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia_installation_media
There's a link at the bottom of the Downloads page.
Jim
morgano wrote:is that link is missing from current download page, or am i blind?
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