Installation Of Fedora 12 Using Live Cd

Prepared by investech.wordpress.com .wordpress.com

Installation of Fedora 12 with LiveCD Version 1.0

investech.wordpress.com 07-12-09 This document is produced under Creative Common License (Attribution No Derivatives). Attribution will be given to investech.wordpress.com.

Installation of Fedora 12 with LiveCD

2009

Installation of Fedora 12 using Live CD (32-bit/64-bit) Choosing Between 32-bit / 64-bit Operating System •

•

•

• •

When deciding to use 32-bit or 64-bit Fedora, you should consider the need and the usage of the system. If you have proprietary hardware, the drivers and software are usually written in 32-bit. You would have less problem with software installation such as Adobe products and most media players, since most of these software were written in 32-bit. You could still install and use 32-bit software in a 64-bit operating environment. However, you need to download all the 32-bit libraries, wrapper and component for installation and compilation. This will increase your hard disk space since you need to maintain both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries. You should consider using 64-bit operating system if you need to use a particular software application that requires speed and large amount of memory and this software is supported in 64bit Linux. If you have more than 3GB of RAM, you should consider using 64-bit operating system because the 32-bit operating system only recognizes 3GB of RAM. You could use 32-bit Fedora that addresses more than 3GB of RAM. This requires a different kernel known as PAE (Physical Addressing Extension) kernel. This Fedora kernel makes use of PAE features provided by Intel.

Getting Fedora • • •

You can download the latest Fedora distribution at http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora Download the LiveCD. For 32-bit version, the file name is ‘Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso’ and for 64-bit version, the file name is ‘Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso’. Proceed to burn Fedora LiveCD into a CD. You can search the web on how to burn an ISO image to a CD. You can use the ISO image if you are installing on a virtual machine.

Hardware Requirement (x86) Ensure that your hardware meets the minimum requirement: • Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium Pro or better • Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium Pro or better • Minimum RAM for text-mode: 256MB • Minimum RAM for graphical: 512MB • Recommended RAM for graphical: >512MB • The hard disk space required is depend on what application you choose to install. For LiveCD installation you will require 2-3GB of hard disk space. You might need up to 4GB of disk space after updates and installation of additional applications. • It is recommended you have a hard disk space of 6GB to 8GB for the operating system and applications. You might need additional hard disk space for user data. • At least 5% free space should be maintained for proper system operation.

2

Installation of Fedora 12 with LiveCD

2009

Getting Help • • •

You can look for helpful HOWTO documents, installation guide and wikis at http://fedoraproject.org You can search the web for help to resolve Fedora issues. You can also check out the following Linux forum: o http://fedoraforum.org/ o http://www.linuxquestions.org/ o http://www.linuxforums.org/

Evaluating Fedora 12 • • •

•

• •

•

•

• • •

•

•

You can try out Fedora without making any changes to the hard disk by booting up and running the LiveCD. You need to resolve any critical hardware problem you might encounter during booting. If you experienced video problem, probably due to video driver compatibility, you need to change the video mode in the boot option by appending “vga=