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    From Gilberto F da Silva@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 14:41:55 2020

    The Mageia installer is beautiful and easy to use for simple installation. I've done dozens of installations. This time I wanted to
    change the file system and things went terribly wrong. after choosing
    the file system the system froze and I lost the partitioning of an
    external disk that was connected.

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    Gilberto F da Silva

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 15:27:49 2020
    On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 10:41:55 -0300, Gilberto F da Silva wrote:

    The Mageia installer is beautiful and easy to use for simple
    installation.

    Welcome to Mageia. I find the install screen pretty easy to use even on
    a complex install.

    I've done dozens of installations. This time I wanted to
    change the file system and things went terribly wrong. after choosing
    the file system the system froze and I lost the partitioning of an
    external disk that was connected.

    When you have problems, it helps to information about what is being
    used, commands and results.

    In your case it would have been nice to have which iso used. Examples: Mageia-7.1-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso
    Mageia-Cauldron-netinstall-nonfree-x86_64.iso

    I can only guess you picked use existing partitions for install.

    Since I have several installs, I always pick Custom in the partition
    phase and pick where I want what used/mounted.


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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 21:37:56 2020
    On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 09:41:55 -0400, Gilberto F da Silva <gfs1989@gmx.net> wrote:


    The Mageia installer is beautiful and easy to use for simple installation. I've done dozens of installations. This time I wanted to
    change the file system and things went terribly wrong. after choosing
    the file system the system froze and I lost the partitioning of an
    external disk that was connected.

    Exactly what was being done must be detailed to identify and either solve
    the problem, or recommend a work around.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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