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How to install fedora ? …… If this question raises in your mind …. Then you must read this !
Requirements –
It is used to repair or rescue a operating system that is already installed . To load the rescue system with
the installation disc, choose Rescue installed system from the boot menu.
Specify the language, keyboard layout and network settings for the rescue system with the screens that
follow. The final setup screen configures access to the existing system on your computer.
By default, rescue mode attaches an existing operating system to the rescue system under the
directory /mnt/sysimage/.
You will enter a text mode installation wizard , like the one similar to the windows BIOS menu
If you Choose “Install or upgrade an existing system” , you will enter the normal GUI interface:
2.Media test
The media test feature in anaconda installer is used to verify the integrity of data on the DVD .This way
generates an SHA-1 hash from the DVD itself for comparison to the original ISO file's hash. It involves
using a simple script to recreate an ISO file from the DVD while at the same time removing the padding
added by the burning software. The result is an ISO file that is identical to the original ISO file. You can
also pipe that result directly to sha1sum to get the hash to compare to the original ISO file's hash.
If you need to skip this media test , you can press the skip button. It will take to fedora installer
“anaconda 11.4.0.82”.
3.Click next .choose your language ,and keyboad layout and configure if you use any network devices
and type your hostname.
The system will prompt you before writing partition layout to the disk .If you have left any changes then
click “go back” otherwise opt for “write changes to disk”.
5.customize the softwares you need to install in your system and click next, fedora installer will check
for dependencies and then fedora will start to install and after installation the system will be asked to
reboot.
The office productivity tools consist of productivity suite required for planning , management , graphical
tools and multimedia applications.
In this tab , you will specify the day ,month,time in hours ,mins and seconds.
Using this , you can synchronize your system time with a remote time server.
Time zone:
Anaconda is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and some other
distributions.
During installation, a target computer's hardware is identified and configured and the appropriate
file systems for the system's architecture are created. Finally, anaconda allows the user to install
the operating system software on the target computer. anaconda can also upgrade existing
installations of earlier versions of the same distribution. After the installation is complete, you can
reboot into your installed system and continue doing customization using firstboot .