Install Solutions

A new /home — by zcat — last modified Apr 23, 2008 11:56 AM

How to separate "/home" from "/" on an existing Fedora LVM default install. This allows future fresh reinstalls (VS upgrades) to be performed without having to first backup /home, and it also allows future LVM flexibility in that the system does not need to be taken offline again because the root filesystem is now optimally resized.

adding Rpmfusion during Install — by Southern_Gentleman — last modified Nov 22, 2008 04:37 PM

Ananconda, the installer for Fedora, is capable of using external RPM repositories during install. It's quite easy to use. Follow the steps below to add the RPMfusion repository during you install decreasing the amount of time required to setup your system.

Dual Boot with Windows — by daMaestro — last modified Nov 07, 2009 07:36 PM

Some people still have a use to dual boot to windows. An example, playing video games or running other software that wont run using something like wine. This brief howto illustrates how to configure the grub boot loader to also be able to boot windows.

Dual Booting Fedora (Windows XP already installed - ntldr method) — by Rehan Khan — last modified Jan 17, 2009 07:12 AM

This How-To will cover Installing Fedora on a Windows machine and Dual Booting Fedora from a Windows XP machine using Grub4Dos. This is a relatively simple method that is non-destructive to the Windows installation. You will need to have some un-partitioned space on your machine to follow this configuration.

Dual Disk Dual Boot Issue Correction — by ScottGlaser — last modified Dec 30, 2008 05:51 AM

There are some instances where a user installs a new disk drive in their Windows system so as to load Fedora. Fedora does not install grub in the MBR of the primary disk properly. For those instances this procedure will correct that issue.

FIX: Intel 965P based motherboards — by obsethryl — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

When installing Fedora you may encounter a kernel panic in the very beginning of the process. This is something experienced in other GNU/Linux distributions as well and it is related to incorrect identification of the 965P as G965 (kernel issue).

How Much Space? — by Tejas Dinkar — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

This is a Small Guide on How Much Space you should reserve for your Fedora Core installation, and where to allocate the space. Of Course, this will not be valid for 100% of cases, but is a general frame.

How to shrink a default install LVM PV to create another partition — by zcat — last modified Jul 02, 2008 02:53 PM

A default installation of Fedora will use all available free space to create two new partitions: a small /boot, and all the remaining space for a single LVM physical volume (PV). This sometimes poses problems for those who later wish to make room for more regular partitions, to install Another Operating System into, for example. The short solution: reinstall Fedora with custom sizes to leave free space; the long solution: this howto.

Install Solutions — by The Fedora Unity Team — last modified Nov 23, 2008 10:49 AM

 

Installation and Configuration of User-Mode Linux (UML) — by Balaji G — last modified Feb 14, 2009 08:40 AM

This article describes how to set-up and configure User-Mode Linux in Fedora 10. User-Mode Linux is a safe, secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. Disk storage for the virtual machine is entirely contained inside a single file on your physical machine. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual machine can change or damage your real computer, or its software.

Installation Solutions and Workarounds — by Walter Francis — last modified Feb 27, 2010 04:22 PM

Sometimes installs don't go perfectly, particularly with graphical installs, but once the system is up and running and updated things are usually fine. This page is intended to get the user installed and up to date then get the system up and running in X and back to normal. This page is written specifically about installing or upgrading using the CD or DVD installers, however some of the information here could very likely be also used for Live media.

Installing Fedora Using PXE Images — by zcat — last modified Jan 07, 2009 03:49 PM

Booting grub with the Fedora PXE vmlinuz/initrd images allows you to perform a network installation of Fedora over any existing linux distro, should you not be able to write to or boot from the conventional CD/DVD install media. A PXE netinstall can both be done locally, and with extra care, remotely using VNC. Both methods are explained in this HOWTO.

Official Fedora Installation Guide — by Southern_Gentleman — last modified May 11, 2008 10:53 PM

 

Official Fedora Release-Notes — by Southern_Gentleman — last modified May 11, 2008 11:02 PM

 

Using Jigdo to Download ISO Images — by Corwyn — last modified Apr 28, 2008 04:45 AM

Jigdo Download Manager allows users the ability to download the Fedora Unity (and other) ISO's and large files. Jigdo Download Manager downloads the component files then uses them to build the ISO based on a pre-created template. This how-to describes how a user can download and build the Unity Re-Spin ISO images or Fedora release ISO images using the Jigdo Download Manager. This provides for using public mirrors or a local data source.