Hi All,
Fedora 20 released on December 17, 2013. Its an awesome distribution with a lots of cutting edge features. I will start the guide with some screenshots and explain each step.
1. First of all Download Fedora 20 from the site. I have downloaded desktop (Gnome) format but the procedure is same for all the formats. Burn the image to a DVD or CD or make a bootable pendrive. Boot the system with the bootable pendrive. You will see a the screen shown as below.
2. Press enter to Start Fedora Live.
3. It will ask you to try Fedora before installing or install to Hard Drive.
4. If you choose to try the it will inform you where the install option will be for future reference to install.
5. If you choose to install on Hard Drive or later clicked that switch then it will ask you for language selection.
6. Then it will show you a screen where you have to set your location for date/time and keyboard layout, Installation destination and host-name(Network Configuration). REMEMBER the DONE switch is top left on every screen.
7. Clicking on installation destination it will ask you to select the disk. Click DONE. If you have empty Hard Drive and want to install only fedora then choose automatically, otherwise select manual partition option.
8. Please read it carefully. You may end-up corrupting your existing windows installations. do not choose any partition about which you are not sure. Go back to window and see the labels and then come back again here.
8.1 Here is the tricky part. It is not simple to understand for first timer. But it is fairly easy. It does not show you the disk layout in a graphical cylinder, so you need some information about your disk before installation. If you have free space that there is no problem. Just click on "+" sign and add the partition for fresh fedora installation. You need to specify the size, mount-point, file system to format.
8.2 Or if you have some partitions which you want to use for fedora installation then click on that partition specify the options on right side as mount-point, and reformat as ext4(preferred).
8.3 If you have hard-drive of 500GB or more then I would like to suggest the partitions as
/boot (2GB) as ext4
/ (35 GB) as ext4 === root
linux-swap from 4 GB to 10 GB -- for this you have to select reformat as swap
/home (20 GB) as ext4
9. Click Begin Installation.
10. You will see a screen where fedora installation is going in background and asking you to set root and users.
11. Set root password. If password does not match it will warn you like the yellow line below.
12. Then Set the user. Here user Aishwarya Rai and her password is set. if password is too weak like abhishek here then it will warn you like yellow line below. You have to click on DONE again at top left.
13. The installation is going on.
14. Click on Quit as installation completed. You can use live session user as long as after quitting also. You need to restart the system by clicking top right.
15. After rebooting, log-in with your user name. Here are some of the screen-shots of the fresh fedora installation. However I have installed some shell extensions and cairo-dock so it looked more attractive. I have also changed desktop background to one of my favourite pic taken by me.
Enjoy the ride and see other posts for doing more. fun with fedora after installation
Fedora 20 released on December 17, 2013. Its an awesome distribution with a lots of cutting edge features. I will start the guide with some screenshots and explain each step.
1. First of all Download Fedora 20 from the site. I have downloaded desktop (Gnome) format but the procedure is same for all the formats. Burn the image to a DVD or CD or make a bootable pendrive. Boot the system with the bootable pendrive. You will see a the screen shown as below.
3. It will ask you to try Fedora before installing or install to Hard Drive.
4. If you choose to try the it will inform you where the install option will be for future reference to install.
5. If you choose to install on Hard Drive or later clicked that switch then it will ask you for language selection.
6. Then it will show you a screen where you have to set your location for date/time and keyboard layout, Installation destination and host-name(Network Configuration). REMEMBER the DONE switch is top left on every screen.
7. Clicking on installation destination it will ask you to select the disk. Click DONE. If you have empty Hard Drive and want to install only fedora then choose automatically, otherwise select manual partition option.
8. Please read it carefully. You may end-up corrupting your existing windows installations. do not choose any partition about which you are not sure. Go back to window and see the labels and then come back again here.
8.1 Here is the tricky part. It is not simple to understand for first timer. But it is fairly easy. It does not show you the disk layout in a graphical cylinder, so you need some information about your disk before installation. If you have free space that there is no problem. Just click on "+" sign and add the partition for fresh fedora installation. You need to specify the size, mount-point, file system to format.
8.2 Or if you have some partitions which you want to use for fedora installation then click on that partition specify the options on right side as mount-point, and reformat as ext4(preferred).
8.3 If you have hard-drive of 500GB or more then I would like to suggest the partitions as
/boot (2GB) as ext4
/ (35 GB) as ext4 === root
linux-swap from 4 GB to 10 GB -- for this you have to select reformat as swap
/home (20 GB) as ext4
9. Click Begin Installation.
10. You will see a screen where fedora installation is going in background and asking you to set root and users.
11. Set root password. If password does not match it will warn you like the yellow line below.
12. Then Set the user. Here user Aishwarya Rai and her password is set. if password is too weak like abhishek here then it will warn you like yellow line below. You have to click on DONE again at top left.
13. The installation is going on.
14. Click on Quit as installation completed. You can use live session user as long as after quitting also. You need to restart the system by clicking top right.
15. After rebooting, log-in with your user name. Here are some of the screen-shots of the fresh fedora installation. However I have installed some shell extensions and cairo-dock so it looked more attractive. I have also changed desktop background to one of my favourite pic taken by me.
Enjoy the ride and see other posts for doing more. fun with fedora after installation
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