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Fedora 24 Installation Guide Fedora 24 Installation Guide Installing Fedora 24 on 32 and 64-bit AMD and Intel Fedora Documentation Project Installation Guide Fedora 24 Installation Guide Installing Fedora 24 on 32 and 64-bit AMD and Intel Edition 1 Author Fedora Documentation Project Copyright © 2015 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. 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This manual explains how to boot the Fedora installation program, Anaconda, and how to install Fedora 24 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 13 4.1. Preparing to Boot ............................................................................................... 13 4.2. The Boot Menu .................................................................................................. 14 5. Installing Using Anaconda 17 5.1. Introduction to Anaconda .................................................................................... 17 5.2. Consoles and Logging During the Installation ....................................................... 17 5.2.1. Accessing Consoles ................................................................................. 17 5.2.2. Saving Screenshots ................................................................................. 18 5.3. Installing in Text Mode ........................................................................................ 19 5.4. Installing in the Graphical User Interface .............................................................. 20 5.4.1. Welcome Screen and Language Selection ................................................ 20 5.4.2. Installation Summary ................................................................................ 22 5.4.3. Date & Time ............................................................................................ 23 5.4.4. Keyboard Layout ..................................................................................... 25 5.4.5. Language Support ................................................................................... 27 5.4.6. Installation Source ................................................................................... 28 5.4.7. Software Selection ................................................................................... 30 5.4.8. Installation Destination ............................................................................. 32 5.4.9. Installation Destination - Specialized & Network Disks ................................ 36 5.4.10. Manual Partitioning ................................................................................ 41 5.4.11. Kdump .................................................................................................. 58 5.4.12. Network & Hostname ............................................................................. 59 5.4.13. Configuration and Installation Progress ................................................... 63 5.4.14. Root Password ...................................................................................... 64 5.4.15. Create User ........................................................................................... 65 6. After the Installation 69 iii Installation Guide 6.1. Initial Setup ........................................................................................................ 69 6.2. GNOME Initial Setup .......................................................................................... 71 6.3. Common Post-installation Tasks .......................................................................... 72 7. Troubleshooting 75 7.1. Getting Help ....................................................................................................... 75 7.1.1. Log Files Generated During the Installation ............................................... 75 7.1.2. Transferring Log Files from the Installation System .................................... 76 7.2. Trouble Beginning the Installation ........................................................................ 78 7.2.1. Problems with Booting into the Graphical Installation .................................. 78 7.2.2. Serial Console Not Detected .................................................................... 78 7.3. Trouble During the Installation ............................................................................. 79 7.3.1. No Disks Detected ................................................................................... 79 7.4. Problems After Installation .................................................................................. 79 7.4.1. Resetting the Root Password ................................................................... 79 7.4.2. Are You Unable to Boot With Your RAID Card? ......................................... 80 7.4.3. Trouble With the Graphical Boot Sequence ............................................... 80 7.4.4. Booting into a Graphical Environment ....................................................... 81 7.4.5. No Graphical User Interface Present ......................................................... 82 7.4.6. X Server Crashing After User Logs In ....................................................... 82 7.4.7. Is Your RAM Not Being Recognized? ........................................................ 82 II. Advanced Installation Options 85 8. Boot Options 87 8.1. Configuring the Installation System at the Boot Menu ........................................... 87 8.2. Available Boot Options ......................................................................................
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