I am marking this solved. I switched to dvd vlassic installer, and it is installing as we speak. If there are further problems I will start another thread. But to answrr your quextions
martinw wrote:canadaist wrote:A booting live disk does not offer to install
What do you mean here. Is there no "Install Mageia Live" entry in the boot menu? What do you see if not?
It showed all the items on the live disk welcom, offerimg Boot and Install (with video driver choice) but the arrows would not change to any choice but boot. Other choice faded.
martinw wrote:canadaist wrote:a live boot on usb stick stops after choosing time zone.
If you press Ctrl-Alt-F2 at that point, do you get a tty login prompt? If so, log in as root and enter 'journalctl' to view the system log and look for error messages. there is no linux system it would not boot either.
7.1 download yesterday
Which may be too old to support your hardware. You could try the 8-beta1 ISOs.
It did not offer CSM but is installing now despite not offering CSM
wish me luck, I got install yo start, there may be problems, but windows is gone at least. Marking it solved.
Closing this thread with Mageia 8 beta 1 installed quick, sharp clean and fast. After upgrading, almost 1600 files, and that reboot including logging in is not much more than thirty seconds.
Havent found anything that doesn't work yet. Looking forward to it.