Fedora 11 Installation Guide
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Fedora 11 Installation Guide Installing Fedora 11 on x86, AMD64, and Intel® 64 architectures Fedora Documentation Project Installation Guide Fedora 11 Installation Guide Installing Fedora 11 on x86, AMD64, and Intel® 64 architectures Edition 1.0 Author Fedora Documentation Project [email protected] Copyright © 2009 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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Document Conventions ................................................................................................... xi 1.1. Typographic Conventions ..................................................................................... xi 1.2. Pull-quote Conventions ........................................................................................ xii 1.3. Notes and Warnings ........................................................................................... xiii 2. We Need Feedback! ..................................................................................................... xiii Introduction xv 1. Background ................................................................................................................... xv 1.1. About Fedora ..................................................................................................... xv 1.2. Getting Additional Help ....................................................................................... xv 2. About This Document .................................................................................................... xv 2.1. Goals ................................................................................................................. xv 2.2. Audience ............................................................................................................ xv 1. Quick Start for Experts 1 1.1. Overview ..................................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Download Files ............................................................................................................ 1 1.3. Prepare for Installation ................................................................................................. 2 1.4. Install Fedora ............................................................................................................... 2 1.5. Perform Post-installation Steps ..................................................................................... 2 2. New Users 3 2.1. How Do I Download Installation Files? .......................................................................... 3 2.1.1. From a Mirror .................................................................................................... 3 2.1.2. From BitTorrent ................................................................................................. 4 2.2. Which Architecture Is My Computer? ............................................................................ 4 2.3. Which Files Do I Download? ......................................................................................... 5 2.4. How Do I Make Fedora Media? .................................................................................... 6 2.4.1. Making CD or DVD Discs .................................................................................. 6 2.4.2. Making USB Media ............................................................................................ 6 2.5. What If I Cannot Download Fedora? ............................................................................. 8 2.6. How Do I Start the Installation Program? ....................................................................... 8 I. Before you begin 9 3. Steps to Get You Started 11 3.1. Upgrade or Install? ............................................................................................. 11 3.2. Is Your Hardware Compatible? ............................................................................ 11 3.3. Do You Have Enough Disk Space? ..................................................................... 11 3.4. Can You Install Using the CD-ROM or DVD? ....................................................... 11 3.4.1. Alternative Boot Methods ......................................................................... 12 3.4.2. Making an Installation Boot CD-ROM ........................................................ 12 3.5. Preparing for a Network Installation ..................................................................... 12 3.5.1. Preparing for FTP and HTTP installation ................................................... 13 3.5.2. Preparing for an NFS install ..................................................................... 13 3.6. Preparing for a Hard Drive Installation ................................................................. 14 4. System Specifications List 17 5. Driver Media for Intel® and AMD Systems 19 5.1. Why Do I Need Driver Media? ............................................................................ 19 5.2. So What Is Driver Media Anyway? ...................................................................... 19 5.3. How Do I Obtain Driver Media? .......................................................................... 19 iii Installation Guide 5.3.1. Creating a Driver Diskette from an Image File ........................................... 19 5.4. Using a Driver Image During Installation .............................................................. 20 II. The installation process 21 6. Beginning the Installation 23 6.1. The Boot Menu .................................................................................................. 23 6.2. Installing from a Different Source ........................................................................ 24 6.3. Verifying Media .................................................................................................. 24 6.3.1. Verifying the Live CD ............................................................................... 25 6.3.2. Verifying the DVD .................................................................................... 25 6.4. Booting from the Network using PXE ................................................................... 25 6.5. Graphical and Text Interfaces .............................................................................. 26 7. Installing on Intel® and AMD Systems 27 7.1. The Graphical Installation Program User Interface ................................................ 27 7.1.1. A Note about Virtual Consoles .................................................................. 27 7.2. The Text Mode Installation Program User Interface ............................................... 28 7.2.1. Using the Keyboard to Navigate ............................................................... 30 7.3. Starting the Installation Program ......................................................................... 31 7.3.1. Booting the Installation Program on x86, AMD64, and Intel® 64 Systems ..... 31 7.3.2. Additional Boot Options ............................................................................ 32 7.4. Selecting an Installation Method .......................................................................... 34 7.5. Installing from DVD/CD-ROM .............................................................................. 34 7.5.1. What If the IDE CD-ROM Was Not Found? ............................................... 35 7.6. Installing from a Hard Drive ................................................................................ 35 7.7. Performing a Network Installation ........................................................................ 37 7.8. Installing via NFS ............................................................................................... 38 7.9. Installing via FTP or HTTP .................................................................................. 38 7.10. Welcome to Fedora .......................................................................................... 39 7.11. Language Selection .......................................................................................... 40 7.12. Keyboard Configuration