Friday 12 October 2012

Fedora 17: Installation

I have an old Core 2 Duo with 1 500GB hard drive and 4 x 2TB hard drives stuffed in a cupboard.

I have created a 6TB software RAID drive from the 4 x 2TB drives, whilst the 500GB drive is the boot device.

Today I installed Fedora 17 with Gnome using the LiveUSB creator tool.

I used these instructions: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

I downloaded the LiveUSB creator tool from here: http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

I downloaded the 64 bit Fedora 17 Desktop Edition with Gnome desktop manager from here: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

My existing RAID configuration remained intact, and I installed over Fedora 16 I had on the 500GB drive.

The Quick Start guide make it trivial to set up... just follow the instructions on-screen.

Configure Auto-Login

Since I run this headless in a cupboard, I needed to configure it to automatically login.

Again this is trivial - Just go to System Settings - User Accounts - click on the Unlock button to enable changes, and select Auto Login

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