Installing the Operating System

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Exercise 1

Installing the Operating System

In this exercise you will install the Fedora™ 10 (F10) version of Linux via the medium that has been provided for you. The following steps assume you are installing via the Fedora 10 DVD-ROM.
The same steps apply with very little modification if you are performing a network install.

To install F10 Linux

1. Power on your computer and insert the first installation media

2. The screen below appears (Figure 1). Press <ENTER>

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3. Select “Skip” and press <ENTER> at the “Disc Found” screen (Figure 2).
(if you are performing a network based installation you will not get this screen)

Figure 2




4. Press “Next” at the following screen (Figure 3)

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5. At the “Language Selection” Screen, select "English (English)" and press “Next” (Figure 4)

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6. Choose your keyboard type and press “Next” (“U.S. English” is usually a safe choice - Figure 5)

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7. Accept the defaults in the “Hostname Configuration” screen (Figure 6) and click “Next”

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8. Using the map, select the city closest to your timezone. And then click "Next".


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9. Type in "password" (in both fields) as your root password and click “Next” (Figure 8). Click "Yes" if you getting a "Weak Password" warning.

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10. In the disk partitioning screen, accept the defaults (Remove Linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout) and click "Next" (Figure 9). Click "Write changes to disk" if you get a "Writing partitioning to disk" dialog box.

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11. In the “Package Group Selection” screen, UN-CHECK the "Office and Productivity" option and click "Next".

NOTES:
We don't want any unnecessay software (e.g. office and productivity software) installed on the system, because we are setting up a server grade system.

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12. The installation will begin (Figure 11).

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13. Once the installer runs to completion, you will be prompted to reboot the system.

13. After rebooting, you will be walked through some quick customization steps. Click Forward at the first screen.

14. Memorize the entire license governing the software you have just installed - because whatever you agree to in the license can and will be used against you in a court of law.
Just kidding ....Click forward again at the License Information screen.

15. The next screen will allow you to create a new user account. We will create a new user named "user01". Complete the fields in the screen with the information below:
Click Forward when done.

Username: user01
Full Name: user01
Password: 01user01
Confirm Password: 01user01


16. Make sure that the current date and time in the "Date and Time" screen is correct and then click Forward.

17. In the Hardware Profile screen, you may choose or refuse to contribute information to the Fedora project using Smolt. Make your choice
and then click Finish.

18. You will be presented with the Fedora login screen (Figure 12). From this point, you can logon to the system as the user "user01" with the password “01user01" that
was created earlier.






19. Done.

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