Chapter 2: Installing Fedora

In This Chapter

• Choosing installation media
• Quick installation
• Detailed installation instructions
• Special installation procedures
• Special installation topics
• Troubleshooting installation
• Spinning your own Fedora

A simplified installation procedure is one of the best reasons for using a Linux distribution such as Fedora. In many cases, for a computer dedicated to using Fedora, you can just pop in the DVD or CD that comes with this book, choose the default settings, and be up and running with Linux in less than an hour.

If you want to share your computer with both Linux and Microsoft Windows, Fedora offers several ways to go about doing that. A Fedora Desktop Edition Live CD is included with this book and will help prepare your computer before installation. If your computer doesn’t have a DVD or CD drive, network and hard disk installs are available. To preconfigure Fedora for installation on multiple, similar computers, you can use a kickstart installation, covered in “Performing a kickstart installation” later in this chapter.