Fedora 9 Installation Guide Suart Ellis Paul Frields Installation Guide Fedora 9 Installation Guide Edition 2.0 Author Suart Ellis [email protected] Author Paul Frields [email protected] Copyright © 2006,2007,2008 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. 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Pull-quote Conventions ....................................................................................... viii 1.3. Notes and Warnings ............................................................................................ ix 2. We Need Feedback! ....................................................................................................... ix 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. Audience ........................................................................................................... 1 1.3. Feedback ..................................................................................................................... 2 2. Quick Start for Experts 3 2.1. Overview ..................................................................................................................... 3 2.2. Download Files ............................................................................................................ 3 2.3. Prepare for Installation ................................................................................................. 4 2.4. Install Fedora ............................................................................................................... 4 2.5. Perform Post-installation Steps ..................................................................................... 4 3. New Users 5 3.1. How Do I Download Installation Files? .......................................................................... 5 3.1.1. From a Mirror .................................................................................................... 5 3.1.2. From BitTorrent ................................................................................................. 6 3.2. Which Architecture Is My Computer? ............................................................................ 6 3.3. Which Files Do I Download? ......................................................................................... 7 3.4. How Do I Make Fedora Media? .................................................................................... 8 3.4.1. Making CD or DVD Discs .................................................................................. 8 3.4.2. Making USB Media ............................................................................................ 8 3.5. What If I Cannot Download Fedora? ............................................................................. 9 3.6. How Do I Start the Installation Program? ....................................................................... 9 4. Beginning the Installation 11 4.1. The Boot Menu .......................................................................................................... 11 4.2. Installing from a Different Source ................................................................................ 12 4.3. Verifying Media .......................................................................................................... 12 4.3.1. Verifying the Live CD ....................................................................................... 12 4.3.2. Verifying the DVD ............................................................................................ 13 4.4. Booting from the Network using PXE ........................................................................... 13 4.5. Graphical and Text Interfaces ...................................................................................... 13 5. Identifying Your Locale 15 5.1. Language Selection .................................................................................................... 15 5.2. Keyboard Configuration .............................................................................................. 15 6. Installation Methods 17 6.1. Alternative Installation Methods ................................................................................... 17 6.2. Installation from a Hard Drive ..................................................................................... 17 6.3. Installation TCP/IP Configuration ................................................................................. 18 6.4. NFS Installation Setup ................................................................................................ 19 6.5. Web and FTP Installation Setup .................................................................................. 19 iii Installation Guide 7. Welcome Dialog 21 7.1. Initializing the Hard Disk ............................................................................................. 21 7.2. RAID or Other Nonstandard Configurations .................................................................. 21 8. Upgrading an Existing System 23 8.1. Upgrade Examine ....................................................................................................... 23 8.2. Upgrading Using the Installer ...................................................................................... 23 8.3. Upgrading Boot Loader Configuration .......................................................................... 24 9. Network Configuration 25 9.1. Network Devices ........................................................................................................ 25 9.1.1. Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 Support ................................................................... 25 9.1.2. Configuring IPv4 .............................................................................................. 26 9.1.3. Configuring IPv6 .............................................................................................. 26 9.2. Hostname .................................................................................................................. 26 9.3. Miscellaneous Settings ............................................................................................... 27 10. Time Zone Selection 29 10.1. Selecting a Time Zone .............................................................................................. 29 10.2. Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC) ........................................................................... 29 11. Set the Root Password 31 12. Disk Partitioning 33 12.1. RAID and Other Disk Devices ................................................................................... 33 12.1.1. Hardware RAID ............................................................................................. 33 12.1.2. Software RAID ............................................................................................... 33 12.1.3. FireWire and USB Disks ................................................................................ 33 12.2. General Information on Partitions .............................................................................. 33 12.2.1. Partition Types ............................................................................................... 34 12.2.2. Minimum Partition Sizes ................................................................................. 35 12.3. Understanding LVM .................................................................................................