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1. Fedora 12 Installation Guide
Here I will describe the main steps for installing Fedora 12 Constantine. The following screenshots are captured from the Fedora 12 Live CD installation. If you use the Fedora 12 CD/DVD note that the steps are a little different. So, download a Fedora 12 DVD from fedoraproject.org , put it in your DVD tray and restart your computer making sure from the BIOS that your CDROM is the first booting device.
Once you boot with the Live CD click on the Install to Hard Disk icon and the installer will start.
Here is our first Fedora 12 screen.
Select the language to be used during the installation.
Next type your computer name. This is the hostname of your computer on a network.
Here select a city close to yours and in the same time zone to configure your system clock. If you have also installed Windows installed on your computer and you will make a dual boot system make sure that the "System clock uses UTC" box isn't selected.
Type twice your root password. Root is the administrator of the system. So, it is good this to be a strong password. Not just 123456. :P
Now pay attention to the next step, partitioning of your hard drive. If Fedora will be the only Operatining System in your hard disk select "Use entire drive". You can also "Create a custom layout". Generally it is a good idea to make a different partition for your /home where you will keep all your files and another one for the main system. The most common case is that you already have Windows installed and you want to try Fedora 12 as well. If you don't have a partition to use for Fedora or a seperate hard disk you have to resize an existing partition and make some free space. But before you should defrag your hard disk. To learn more read my How to partition your HDD to install Linux guide . Tick the "Review and modify partitioning layout" to make sure you won't install Fedora on the wrong partition.
Here is the default layout. Fedora uses LVM Volume Groups but this isn't something that you should think of.
Select to install boot loader, grub, on /dev/sda. This is the MBR of the first hard disk of your computer. If you have also Windows installed they will appear in the boot loader operating system list and you can choose the default. Of course you can change this at any time.
When you are ready click the Next button and the installation will begin. This should take a few minutes depending on your computer.
When the installation completes remove the DVD from the tray and click the Reboot button.
This is the Welcom screen of Fedora 12. You will see it only the first time you boot in Fedora.
The License Information of Fedora.
Now create a new user. This will be the default user that you will use to log into Linux.
Make sure the time and date are correct.
This is Fedora 12 Log in screen.
And this is Fedora 12 default Desktop Environment, Gnome. Great artwork from Fedora as always!
Now you can continue with the rest of the guide to configure your system and install some additional applications!
