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Revision as of 18:59, 26 November 2016


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Introduction

Purpose

The Mageia 5.1 release is the continuity of the Mageia 5 release and will allow for new systems to be installed with all the updates that Mageia 5 has received. As for Mageia 4.1, these are new ISOs of the same release, so the installed Mageia 5.1 systems will rely on the same Mageia 5 repositories and will get the same support. As such, this page only contains information on the specificity over the Mageia 5 release. For a complete overview, refer to Mageia 5 Release Notes.

Available installation media

Mageia has two distinct installation media types:

  • Classical ISOs (DVD 32bit, DVD 64bit), which use the DrakX traditional installer. Only the 32bit and 64bit DVD ISOs contain all non-free drivers.
  • Live ISOs, which can be used to preview the distribution and (optionally) install Mageia on your hard drive. Live media come with either the KDE or GNOME desktop environments. The Live DVDs contain all supported locales and many packages.

You will find the different download options on the Mageia 5.1 download page: direct (FTP and HTTP) and BitTorrent downloads are available.

Major new features

Installation

Stage 1

Stage 2

UEFI

GPT partitioning

Hardware support

Grub2 Integration

Manuals

  • The manuals for traditional installer and for the Mageia Control Center have been (partially) translated in many more languages, see our official documentation. More languages have been added since Mageia 5 release. We added also a manual for the installation with Live media. The manuals are also available as packages to install to be available off-line.
  • For each missing localised screenshot in a HTML manual, the English screenshot is now used instead of no screenshot.
  • PDF and EPUB manuals will only be created when more than half of the needed localised screenshots for that manual are available


Tools

Base system

Kernel & hardware support

Proprietary Nvidia drivers

Partial support for NVIDIA Optimus

Graphical environments

Upgrading from Mageia 4

Please also read the known issues page.

Upgrading from Mageia 4 is supported, and has been fine-tuned over the past few months, so it should work. But as always, it is very advisable to back up any important data before upgrading and make sure you have made all updates of Mageia 4 (such as rpm and urpmi). Upgrading from Mageia 3 or another distribution is not supported.

If 3rd party repositories, such as Google, have been added during the use of Mageia 4, be sure to make a backup/copy of /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg.

There are several ways to upgrade from Mageia 4:


Warning: Upgrading an existing install using a Live support is NOT supported due to the Live image being copied "as is" to the target system.

If you want to upgrade a previous Mageia installation which was NOT in UEFI, towards an UEFI-mode Mageia 5, you have to do a complete installation. Direct upgrade is not supported.


Known issues

See the Errata page.