Fedora 26 Installation Guide
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Fedora 26 Installation Guide Installing Fedora 26 on 32 and 64-bit AMD and Intel Fedora Documentation Project Installation Guide Fedora 26 Installation Guide Installing Fedora 26 on 32 and 64-bit AMD and Intel Edition 1 Author Fedora Documentation Project Copyright © 2017 Red Hat, Inc. and others. The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license ("CC-BY-SA"). An explanation of CC-BY-SA is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. The original authors of this document, and Red Hat, designate the Fedora Project as the "Attribution Party" for purposes of CC-BY-SA. In accordance with CC-BY-SA, if you distribute this document or an adaptation of it, you must provide the URL for the original version. Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Shadowman logo, JBoss, MetaMatrix, Fedora, the Infinity Logo, and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. For guidelines on the permitted uses of the Fedora trademarks, refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Legal:Trademark_guidelines. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. Java® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. XFS® is a trademark of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. MySQL® is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States, the European Union and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This manual explains how to boot the Fedora installation program, Anaconda, and how to install Fedora 26 on 32 and 64-bit AMD and Intel systems. It also covers advanced installation methods such as automated Kickstart installations, booting the installation from a network location, remote access to the installation system using VNC, and system upgrades from previous versions of Fedora. It also describes common post-installation tasks and explains how to troubleshoot common issues related to the installation. Preface vii 1. Document Conventions .................................................................................................. vii 1.1. Typographic Conventions .................................................................................... vii 1.2. Pull-quote Conventions ....................................................................................... viii 1.3. Notes and Warnings ............................................................................................ ix 2. We Need Feedback! ....................................................................................................... ix 3. Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................... x 1. Introduction 1 1.1. Background .................................................................................................................. 1 1.1.1. About Fedora .................................................................................................... 1 1.1.2. Getting Additional Help ...................................................................................... 1 1.2. About This Document ................................................................................................... 1 1.2.1. Goals ................................................................................................................ 1 1.2.2. Target Audience ................................................................................................ 2 2. Downloading Fedora 3 I. Installing Fedora 5 3. Preparing for Installation 7 3.1. Upgrade or Install? ............................................................................................... 7 3.2. Downloading Boot and Installation Images ............................................................. 7 3.3. Verifying the Downloaded Image ........................................................................... 7 3.3.1. Verifying checksums on Windows systems .................................................. 8 3.3.2. Verifying checksums on Linux and OSX systems ......................................... 9 3.4. Preparing Boot Media ........................................................................................... 9 4. Booting the Installation 21 4.1. Preparing to Boot ............................................................................................... 21 4.2. The Boot Menu .................................................................................................. 22 5. Installing Using Anaconda 25 5.1. Introduction to Anaconda .................................................................................... 25 5.2. Consoles and Logging During the Installation ....................................................... 25 5.2.1. Accessing Consoles ................................................................................. 25 5.2.2. Saving Screenshots ................................................................................. 26 5.3. Installing in Text Mode ........................................................................................ 27 5.4. Installing in the Graphical User Interface .............................................................. 28 5.4.1. Welcome Screen and Language Selection ................................................ 28 5.4.2. Installation Summary ................................................................................ 30 5.4.3. Date & Time ............................................................................................ 31 5.4.4. Keyboard Layout ..................................................................................... 33 5.4.5. Language Support ................................................................................... 35 5.4.6. Installation Source ................................................................................... 36 5.4.7. Software Selection ................................................................................... 38 5.4.8. Installation Destination ............................................................................. 40 5.4.9. Installation Destination - Specialized & Network Disks ................................ 44 5.4.10. Manual Partitioning ................................................................................ 49 5.4.11. Kdump .................................................................................................. 66 5.4.12. Network & Hostname ............................................................................. 67 5.4.13. Configuration and Installation Progress ................................................... 71 5.4.14. Root Password ...................................................................................... 72 5.4.15. Create User ........................................................................................... 73 6. After the Installation 77 iii Installation Guide 6.1. Initial Setup ........................................................................................................ 77 6.2. GNOME Initial Setup .......................................................................................... 79 6.3. Common Post-installation Tasks .......................................................................... 80 7. Troubleshooting 83 7.1. Getting Help ....................................................................................................... 83 7.1.1. Log Files Generated During the Installation ............................................... 83 7.1.2. Transferring Log Files from the Installation System .................................... 84 7.2. Trouble Beginning the Installation ........................................................................ 86 7.2.1. Problems with Booting into the Graphical Installation .................................. 86 7.2.2. Serial Console Not Detected .................................................................... 86 7.3. Trouble During the Installation ............................................................................. 87 7.3.1. No Disks Detected ................................................................................... 87 7.4. Problems After Installation .................................................................................. 87 7.4.1. Resetting the Root Password ................................................................... 87 7.4.2. Are You Unable to Boot With Your RAID Card? ......................................... 88 7.4.3. Trouble With the Graphical Boot Sequence ............................................... 88 7.4.4. Booting into a Graphical Environment ....................................................... 89 7.4.5. No Graphical User Interface Present ......................................................... 90 7.4.6. X Server Crashing After User Logs In ....................................................... 90 7.4.7. Is Your RAM Not Being Recognized? ........................................................ 90 II. Advanced Installation Options 93 8. Boot Options 95 8.1. Configuring the Installation System at the Boot Menu ........................................... 95 8.2. Available Boot Options ......................................................................................