How Not to Install Linux
(cont.)
Pre-Installation
Considerations:
OK, so now I have gotten
this far. What's next?
Let's continue with the Fedora Core 5 example. Have you read the Fedora
Core 5 release notes?
It's time to download the ISO images for Fedora. If you have the
official Fedora CD disks or DVD, good for you! If you need to burn your
own set, what do you download? It depends. Back to your hardware...
Do you have a non-AMD 64 bit processor in your system? This means
anything but. If you don't know, let's download the basic images.
Go to the Fedora
Mirror Access page. Choose a mirror close to you to download
the images. Most users will want the images located under 5/i386/iso.
What this means is that you will download the images for Fedora Core 5,
for i386 (any non AMD64 processor). You most likely want to pick those
labeled something like;
FC-5-i386-disc1.iso
through FC-5-i386-disc5.iso. or, if you have access to burn a
DVD, the DVD image.
Once you have downloaded the images, you need to burn them correctly to
CD disks or DVD disks. For pointers on this, please read my article on
this subject, located here.
Now that this is done, you are ready to begin. Either read the Fedora
Installation Guide, or if this seems overly technical to you, try
Stanton Finley's Fedora
Core 5 Installation Notes.
Now or after you installation, utilize the Fedora Wiki Page,
which also has a wealth of information and may answer a lot of
questions that you have.
Installation:
There are two common scenarios for installing Fedora on your
system. Either you have one hard drive on your machine and install
Linux using the free space on your existing hard drive, or you want to
install Linux on a second hard drive on your system. Some users fear
losing their data on a Windows drive and prefer to install on a second
hard drive. If this is the case, some special considerations need to be
made, depending on the distro that you are installing. See the page that
is appropriate for your installation.
Installing Fedora when you have only one hard drive on your system.
Installing Fedora when you have two physical hard drives on your system.