Installing Fedora 11 Using LiveCD

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Follow this tutorial to install Fedora 11 using a Live CD. Tested on Acer 4520, but in this tutorial, I'm using Virtual Box.

1. Insert Fedora 11 Live CD "Leonidas" and boot from your computer, wait a few second until Fedora 11 Live CD Boot Screen come out.

2. From the Boot Screen, select the first option (BOOT), or you cn wait for a few second until Fedora 11 Boot itself (around 8 sec if I was not mistaken) .

Fedora 11 Installer (LiveCD)

3. Wait for a while until Fedora 11 Login Screen pop out. Select "Automatic Login" and press Enter (Log In).

Fedora 11 Login Screen

4. You will be brought to Fedora 11 Desktop, you can hardly see the diffrence of Fedora 11 Desktop and Fedora 10 Desktop (they look alike, but luckily, the xserver didn't crash like what happen before when I was using Fedora 10 Live CD).. Anyway lets proceed to the installation.. You may also want to explore or try Fedora 11 first, whe you're ready to install, double click on the "Install to Hard Drive" icon on the desktop.

Fedora 11 Desktop (LiveCD)

5.Wait a few sec until Fedora 11 Installer Window pop up, then click next...

Front Page of Fedora 11 Installer

6. You will be brought to Keyboard selection page.. Select keyboard type that suitable with your keyboard.. The default selection is "U.S English" (most keyboards are this type). Next!

Keyboard Configuration/Set up

7. Then you will be asked to enter "hostname" for your computer... Fill in whatever you want, or you can leave it be (default is localhost.localdomain).. Next...

Defining Hostname for your computer

8. The next part is city and timezone selection. You may want to remove the check from the box (System Clock Uses UTC) if you have other OS on your Computer, such as Windows XP. Else it the time in Linux will conflict with the Windows XP time. Next...

Timezone and City

9. Next one is creating a password for your super user (root) .. You know what to do...

Creating password for super user (root)

Note: if the password that you enter is based on dictionary, a warning window will appear like the one shown below, just click YES to proceed or NO to re-enter the password..

Window that appear when the password that you create are based on dictionary

10. In this page we're going to create partition for Fedora 11, actually there's 5 layout option that we can use here, first is "use entire drive", 2nd "replace existing linux system, 3rd "shrink current system", 4th use free space, and the last is "create custom layout". In this tutorial, we're going to use the last option, "Create Custom Layout". Next...

Partition Setup Page

11. We will be brought to Harddisk Management Page. Installing Fedora 11 is a bit different from installing Fedora 10.. You see, Fedora 10 is using "ext3" as its filesystem, while Fedora 11 use "ext4" as its filesystem. So, we need to create a total of 3 partition.. The first partition will be the "swap" partition (I will allocate 1000MB for the swap partition. It's double size of my RAM, which is 512 MB), then the second partition will be "ext3" partition for the "boot" file (note that boot file can't be installed on ext4 partition, so we need to create ext3 partition for the boot files). I will allocate 200 MB (Default, you can change it depending on your need))for the "boot" file. The last one is not other than "ext4" partition, this is where we're going to install Fedora 11.. I allocated 13 GB for it.. Now, lets create those partition.

Partition Layout before modified

12. First we will make a swap partition. Klik on the Free Space, then click "New". A new window will appear, on the File System Type select "swap", for the size you may allocate depending on your system/need (dobule size of ram perhaps... ex. 512 MB x 2 = 1000 MB for the swap file). If you're done.. Click "OK"

Creating Swap File

13. Now wew will make the "ext3" partition for the "boot" files. Again, click on the Free Space and Click New. The same window just like before will appear.. For the mount point, set it to "/boot". And for the File System Type select "ext3", while for the size I allocate 200 MB (you may change it). Click OK if you're done.

Creating ext3 partition for the boot file - /boot

14. And the last one is "ext4" partition.. Again click on the Free Space and click New. For the mount point, set it to "/". And for the File System Type select "ext4". For the size, you may allocate it depending on your need (in this Tutorial I allocated 14158 MB). Click OK if you're done.

Creating ext4 partition for the OS - /

15. The Final Result of the partition layout should looks like this (see picture below). A total of 1 swap file, one ext3 partitionfor the boot files, and one ext4 partition for the OS.

Final Result of the Partition Layout

16. Click Next if you're sure on your partition layout/configuration.. A small confirmation window will appear, if you're sure click "Write Changes to Disk". If you're not sure, click "Go Back".

17. After the formatting process finish, you will be brought to GRUB Bootloader Configuration. If you have multiple computer on your computer, you can select which Operating System that you want to set as default OS. If you're done... Click Next~

GRUB Bootloader Configuration

18. The Installation Process will begin now.. Wait until the process is complete. Then click "CLOSE". Restart Your Computer and enjoy your newly installed Fedora 11~ ^^

Installation on progress - Fedora 11