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Installation of Fedora 12 with Net Install CD 2009
Contents
Preparation for Installation........................................................................................................................... 3
Choosing Between 32-bit / 64-bit Operating System ............................................................................... 3
Getting Fedora .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Hardware Requirement (x86) ................................................................................................................... 3
Getting Help .............................................................................................................................................. 4
Installation of Fedora 12 using Net Install CD (32-bit/64-bit)....................................................................... 5
Start Installation using CD ......................................................................................................................... 5
Hard Disk Partition .................................................................................................................................... 9
Automatic Configuration of Disk Partition ............................................................................................ 9
Manual Configuration of Disk Partition (without LVM) ...................................................................... 10
Manual Configuration of Disk Partition (with LVM)............................................................................ 12
Manual Configuration of Disk Partition (with encryption) ................................................................. 13
Setting Boot Loader (using Grub)............................................................................................................ 15
Establish Internet Connection................................................................................................................. 16
Customize Installation Package .............................................................................................................. 17
Completion of the Installation ................................................................................................................ 19
Post Installation Setup ............................................................................................................................ 20
After the Installation ................................................................................................................................... 23
Text Mode Minimal Installation on Fedora 12 using Net Install CD ........................................................... 24
Alternative Installation Mode on Fedora 12 using Net Install CD .............................................................. 30
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Getting Fedora
• You can download the latest Fedora distribution at http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
• Download the net install CD. For 32-bit version, the file name is ‘Fedora-12-i386-netinst.iso’ and for
64-bit version, the file name is ‘Fedora-12-x86_64-netinst.iso’. This ISO is the smallest in size; it
occupies only 350MB of CD space.
• Proceed to burn the ISO image to a CD. You can search the web on how to burn an ISO image to a
CD. You can use the ISO image if you are installing on a virtual machine.
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Getting Help
• You can look for helpful HOWTO documents, installation guide and wikis at http://fedoraproject.org
• You can search the web for help to resolve Fedora issues.
• You can also check out the following Linux forum:
o http://fedoraforum.org/
o http://www.linuxquestions.org/
o http://www.linuxforums.org/
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• On the start of installation you are given the choice of checking your DVD media for corruption. You
may choose to skip it.
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• If you have new hard disk which has not been initialized, you might get a message asking to initialize
the hard disk.
• The host name is the name of your computer. You need to supply the host name using the internet
format localhost@domain.com. Local host is the name of the computer; domain name is use when
you have an Internet domain. For personal use and home use, you can use the defaults.
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• The next stage, which is the most important stage, is to designate the drive partition where Fedora
is to be installed.
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Under Fedora 12, it is recommended that you create the following minimum partition:
• One main partition using ext4 file system with mount point set as “/”
• One swap partition using swap file system using a disk space of (RAM x 2)
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• Click [New], select the file type (either ext4 or swap) and select the mount point. You need to
determine the size of the partition and the hard disk drive which the partition is to be created.
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For better management of disk space with multiple users or large data size, you might consider the
following:
• You might consider adding one or more partition using ext3 or ext4 with mount point “/usr” or
“/home”. For a computer system with multiple users or computer system with large user data; it is
better for user data to be place in a separate partition.
• If you have multiple hard disks, it is faster for the swap partition to be located in separate hard disk.
• LVM is designed for large hard disk space spanning into multiple hard disk. If you require more hard
disk space and would like to combine multiple hard disk into a single logical volume; then you should
configure the partition with LVM. For home user with a single hard disk, LVM is not necessary. This is
the reason we do not use LVM for manual configuration.
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• After the selection, the installer will check for software dependencies over the web.
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• Once the installation files are copied to the hard disk and boot loader is configured, you will be
asked to reboot the OS.
• At this stage the installation is 90% complete. However, you still need to complete the final phase of
installation after system reboot.
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• The installation is completed when the system prompt the user for login ID.
• The advantage for installing Fedora directly over the web is that you do not need to perform system
update after installation. You might need to get the drivers ready for any device that was missed
during the installation.
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• You can also choose to use terminal command with root privilege and run $yum install <name of
software packages>
• If you are using 64-bit Fedora, there isn’t much software that is 64-bit. You can install 32-bit
software such as OpenOffice etc on 64-bit Fedora. Alternatively, you can download the source code
and recompile it into 64-bit program.
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• Text mode install is the most minimal installation under Fedora installation. It provides a total of 200
packages to keep the system running. It uses about 800MB of hard disk space. Please note that
using this installation mode gives you the most minimal packages, which means that a lot of
commands or utilities are not working. You need to install them manually.
• For text mode installation over the Internet, it took 20 minutes for 200 packages.
• To install from text mode, append “text” under the boot option.
• On the start of installation you are given the choice of checking your DVD media for corruption. You
may choose to skip it.
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• At this stage, you might need to reinitialize your hard disk if you have a brand new hard disk
installed.
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• Text mode installation provides limited option for disk partition. You can select any auto-
configuration option but you are not allowed to perform customized disk partition.
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• Please not that you are not given a choice of configuring Grub, the boot loader. The system
automatically configures Grub at the MBR.
• After configuration of disk partition, you are allowed to configure the network settings so that you
are able to establish an Internet connection to the Fedora repository. Make sure the network card
eth0 is checked with *.
• After you have configured your network card, the installer will connect to Fedora repository and
retrieve installation information.
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• Once the installation files are copied to the hard disk and boot loader is configured, you will be
asked to reboot the OS.
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• Please note that although network drivers are installed in the system, the network is not configured
automatically. You need to configure the network manually and activates them.
• In addition, a lot of basic utilities such as man page etc are not available; you need to install them
manually.
• There is no post installation setup for text install. You login using root access.
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• You can perform alternative mode of installation using the Net Install CD. You can configure the
installer to install Fedora from CD/DVD, another hard disk, Network File System (NFS) or via Internet
using specific URL. This URL mode of installation is different from the normal installation method
use in the Net Install CD. Net Install CD points automatically to Fedora repository where as this URL
method allows you to point to any URL, most likely your own web server.
• To perform alternative installation, boot up the DVD. Press [Tab] key to edit the boot option and
append ‘askmethod’ at the end of boot command.
• After that, you will be asked to enter language and keyboard types as shown below.
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• Then you are given the option to install Fedora using DVD, or Hard Drive or NFS or via Internet (URL).
After this, the installation procedure is different using the different installation mode.
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