Mageia 2 Installation

Description

Mageia is a GNU/Linux-based operating system that comes from Mandriva although now is independent and it is been adopted so quickly by the community. In this article we are going to perform a Mageia 2 installation on a virtual machine using VirtualBox VM.

Mageia GNU/Linux Download

This distro can be downloaded from mageia.org here. For our test installation we selected DVD 64 bit distribution.

VirtualBox VM Configuration

Select New machine on VirtualBox manager and provide a Name for your VM. Choose:

• Type: Linux
• Version: Mandriva (64 bit)

And click on Next

The recommended memory size is 512MB, we are going to select at least 1024MB to run well:

Keep defaults "Create a virtual hard drive now" and click on Create button

Select VDI and click on Next

Select Dinamically Allocated and click on Next

Modify to reach at least 10GB

Now we have our Mageia2 machine ready for install, only we need to mount the distribution media DVD on the virtual DVD. Select your VM and click on Settings, go to Storage on left pane, select the DVD and find in your disk the media file. Click OK button

Installing Mageia 2 on VirtualBox VM

Start the Virtual Machine created in the previous step. This is the first screen of the installation process, select the option "Install Mageia 2"

Select your language

Accept the license agreement and click on Next

Select your keyboard layout, if not present in options, click on More

Partitioning, we are going to use the first option "Use free space" and the installer performs the partitions for us

Package group selection, if we have more media, we can provide here to install optional packages. Select none and click on Next

Desktop selection, choose your option, we selected KDE

Wait serveral minutes while the installing is in process

Now starts the configuration process. Provide the root password and an alternative user data

Select your monitor

Summary screen, in this screen all the options selected are present. Click on Network Settings to configure the network

Select Wired (Ethernet)

This screen shows the interfaces, for us only eth0 click on Next button

Here you can configure an static IP, we have a DHCP server in the network, the DHCP automatic IP configuration is selected

Provide the hostname

Select "Start the connection at boot" to start the network services at startup

Select "Yes" on start the connection now, it will allow to upgrade the distribution with the last packages on the install process

The network is up, click on Finish

Back to the summary screen, click on Next

Select "Yes" if you want to upgrade the distribution right now

Accept all the messages and wait while the distro is being upgraded

The system is upgraded click on OK button

The installation is finished, click on Reboot

First startup

Login screen, login with the user configured in the install process

And finally this is the Mageia 2 Desktop

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