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Previously when I booted from a Live CD/DVD of this distro, it never asked me for the password.

I booted from a Live CD/DVD, but it is asking for the password.

What is the password for the Live CD/DVD -

OR do you think that there is something wrong with my CD/DVD?

Thank you

Where did you get your iso image? Mageia isos don't require a password to boot.

Please also mention the full filename of the image your used. Also, did you check the md5 checksum for your image?

#1 Do not recall, where I got it from for sure.

#2 Not possible to name the full file name as I wiped the drive OR otherwise installed another distro (and told it to completely replace the existing OS). This was back on Nov 23 at 12:28:34 according to the output of

a) sudo cat /var/log/installer/syslog | less OR

b) su, press enter, then root password, press enter and then cat /var/log/installer/syslog | less OR

c)

user-name@pc-name:~$ ls -ld /var/log/installer
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 21:34 /var/log/installer

OR

d)

user-name@pc-name:~$ ls -ld /lost+found
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 23 12:31 /lost+found

#3 Do not recall, if I md5 checksum for my image before I burned it.

#4 Is there a way to md5 checksum for my image after I burned it (As long as I can first figure out where I got it from and what version was it) ?

Thank you

trpted wrote:#4 Is there a way to md5 checksum for my image after I burned it (As long as I can first figure out where I got it from and what version was it) ?

In general that is possible, but if you don't know the exact size in number of blocks of the image itself, and don't know which image/md5sum you used,
you're probably better off redownloading a current image and using that. See https://www.mageia.org/downloads/

Since I have more than one computer, I tested the Live CD/DVD on another computer and it worked as normal.

Seems the other computer has issues with it's CD/DVD reader (only has internal type). Also I have an external CD/DVD reader/burner that I can use, if it want to get use on the computer that I was trying to get it to run on..

*Solved*

The CD image is Mageia-4.1-KDE4-LiveCD on the CD-R.