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Getting started
Pick OS, vendor, & version
Installation media
Read vendor documentation
HW Drivers?
Directly Supported?
Downloadable?
Hardware Inventory
CPU/Motherboard/Memory
Hard Drive(s) & Partitions
Keyboard/Mouse
CD/DVD
Graphics Card/Monitor
Sound
Networking
Gathering the Hardware Info
PC vendor documentation
Peripheral documentation
WinXP, or Win7 if installed
www.dr-hardware.com
Fedora 15 Requirements
Text Mode
CPU: 200MHz Pentium-class+
Memory: 256 MB
Graphics (X Windows) Mode
CPU: 400MHz Pentium Pro
Memory
Minimum: 640MB
Recommended: 1152MB+
Disk Repartitioning
Destructive – fdisk
Non-destructive
Split a larger partition into 2 or more
smaller ones
Must defragment the partition first
ntfsresize
Commercial tools
ALWAYS back data up first!!!
Fedora Installation Sources
Live CD
DVD
Minimal
CD Boot
USB Boot
Rescue Boot
Network
NFS Image
FTP
HTTP
PXE
Installation from Media
Language Selection
Keyboard/Mouse
Partitioning
Boot Loader Configuraion
Network Configuration
Root Account Creation
Image copied from CD
Disk Partitioning
Create partitions on available drives
Lists existing partitions/filesystem types
Partition information
Mount point
Linux device
Requested/actual space
Filesystem type
Need native and swap partitions
Minimum Partition Sizes
Directory Min. Size
/ 250MB
/boot 250MB
/usr 250MB
/tmp 50MB
/var* 384MB
/home 100MB
* Will need more in order to patch the system the first time
Linux Drive Names
Floppy Disk - /dev/fd0
CDROM Drive - /dev/cdrom
Hard Drives - /dev/hdXY
X – drive number (a-d)
Y – Partition number (1-9)
Example: /dev/hda5 (drive a, partition 5)
SCSI/USB Devices - /dev/sdXY
Swap Partitions
Extends the amount of RAM installed