Personal Fedora Core 6 Installation Guide I

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Personal Fedora Core 6 Installation Guide
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Published: 11 October 2006 (updated: 31 January 2007)
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This guide a personal configuration of Fedora Core 6. This page is to provide some common installation tips that people may find useful. Keep in mind this works for me, so take care in doing proper backups to critical files whenever trying something.
Physical Installation

It is highly recommended you read the
Fedora Core 6 Release Notes
and official
Installation Guide
before installing Fedora.
Obtain the Fedora Core 6 cd images or DVD image from a Fedora
mirror
(or use the
torrent
) and burn to CD's or DVD. (For more information on
how to download Fedora Core
CD's or DVD).
Boot from the first disc.
Warning: Installer problem. Please read
Common Problems
before installing. If you have an i686 system (most new computers), then enter:
linux i686
when booting the first disc. This is required if upgrading an existing Fedora installation.
I did a Custom Install of Fedora Core 6.
Partitioning
If you have an empty harddrive or wish to delete the entire contents of your drive, then let the installer automatically partition or remove everything and partition.
If you wish to dual-boot or save some contents on your drive, then select custom partitioning. I recommend at least 3 partitions: a 10GB / main partition, a 10GB /home partition and a 1GB  partition. The main partition is where your applications will be installed. The /home partition will hold all your personal data (larger is better). The  should be at least as large as your physical memory (if you wish to support things like ACPI hibernate).
Boot Loader
If you have a blank harddrive or wish Fedora to be your Primary Operating System, then leave the default options here. This also works for dual booting with other systems (ex: Windows).
If wish to preserve Windows as your primary operating system, then install Grub on the / partition, NOT the MBR. To do this, select Configure Advanced Boot Loader Options and install to First sector of boot partition. I use
Bootpart
from Windows 2000 to load Linux. An alternative to Bootpart is the
NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO
(also
Grub Win2K Howto
). I recommend this so you do not corrupt your Windows installation in a Dual-Boot environment. [NOTE] There is
an example configuration
available. This takes more work, the default option on the MBR will also work.
General Package Selection
The primary options for installation are the following. You can select these and skip individual package selection (next step) if you plan to install most of your software. It is recommended you at least pick certain applications.
Office and Productivity - [Highly Recommended]
Software Development - [Highly Recommended / Required]
Web Server - [Optional (useful for web developers)]
Fedora Extras - [NOT Recommended at Install time]. If you select Fedora Extras, this will give access to MANY more applications than included on the CD's or DVD. However this requires a high-speed internet access that is detected by the Fedora Installer. This will also significantly increase the installation time.
If you select Customize now you will be taken to the Individual Package Selection.
Individual Package Selection - apx 3.7-4.1GB. - This step should NOT be skipped to make sure you grab a some specific important


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