Installation

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Installation
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Overview

• Download files to make media or another bootable
  configuration.
• Prepare system for installation.
• Boot the computer and run the installation
  process.
• Reboot and perform post-installation
  configuration.

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Download files

• Full set of the software on DVD
• Everything
• Rescue operations
• Live images
• For try out including Graphics Interface
• Can activate Install to hard Disk later
• Minimal Bootable CD
• Install Fedora directly over Internet
• Source code

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Which Architecture?
Processor manufacturer and model Architecture type for Fedora
Intel (except Atom 230, Atom 330, Core 2 Duo, Centrino Core2 Duo, and recent vintage Xeon) AMD (except Athlon 64, Athlon x2, Sempron 64, and Opteron) VIA C3, C7 i386
Intel Atom 230, Atom 330, Core 2 Duo, Centrino Core 2 Duo, and Xeon AMD Athlon 64, Athlon x2, Sempron64, and Opteron Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air x86_64
Apple Macintosh G3, G4, G5, PowerBook, and other non-Intel models ppc
Table 2.1. Processor and architecture types
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How to make Media

• How to burn ISO image into CD/DVD
• What is the ISO image?
• A archive file (disk image) in a format defined
  by ISO
• Data files
• File system metadata boot code, structures,
  attributes
• Writing CDs/DVDs In Fedora
• Use CD/DVD creator in Gnome
• Use k3b in KDE
• See https//fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide-Usin
  g_Media
• Make USB media

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Start the installation program

• Boot CD-ROM
• Power off your computer
• Insert the media
• Change the BIOS boot priority

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Installation Method

• DVD/CD-ROM
• Hard Drive
• NFS
• FTP/HTTP

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Preparation

• Read the release notes
• Make decision of upgrade or Re-Install
• Check for hardware compatibility
• Check for space requirement
• Extend file system is needed for upgrade
• System specification list
• Decide on disk layout for new install
• LVM?
• What Paritions? What size?
• Network settings
• IP, Netmask, Gateway, DNS, etc.

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Preparation

• For a Hard disk Installation
• Copy iso from DVD to disk
• dd if/dev/dvd of/location/of/disk/space/f11.iso
• For NFS installation
• Is nfs installed?
• rpm qa grep nfs
• Install
• yum install nfs
• Start the daemon
• service nfs start
• /etc/init.d/nfs start
• chkconfig list nfs
• Export the files
• For FTP/HTTP installation

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Exercise

• Burn a boot CD
• Live DVD
• Download FC15 live DVD
• Burn DVD media
• Try out to boot the live DVD
• Upgrade to FC15
• Load FC14 first
• Download FC15 installation DVD
• Burn installation DVD
• Update to FC14 from FC15

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Exercise

• Dual boot
• Install Windows
• Download vista from MSDNAA
• Burn DVD
• Install Windows
• Install Solaris
• Install FC15
• Configure grub to boot from all three OS

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Automated installation - Kicksart

• Kickstart
• a system administrator can create a single file
  containing the answers to all the questions that
  would normally be asked during a typical
  installation.
• How Do You Perform a Kickstart Installation?
• Kickstart installations can be performed using a
  local CD-ROM, a local hard drive, or via NFS,
  FTP, or HTTP.
• To use kickstart, you must
• Create a kickstart file.
• Create a boot diskette with the kickstart file or
  make the kickstart file available on the network.
  
• Make the installation tree available.
• Start the kickstart installation.
• See document
• http//fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart

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Preboot Execution Environment

• PXE
• Boot computer using a network interface
• independently of available data storage devices
  or installed operating systems
• Locate PXE boot server and network bootstrap
  program name
• Download the network bootstrap program into RAM
• Execute Network bootstrap program

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PXE boot