Installing Fedora 10-Step by Step Guide

Fedora 10, also known as Cambridge, was released on November 25th, 2008, and it brings GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.1, faster boot experience with Plymouth, better printing, better webcam support, improved wireless network connection sharing, better software maintenance and update (powered by PackageKit and RPM 4.6), and virtualization storage. Plus, it adds a new security tool for IDS (Intrusion Detection System) called SecTool.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install the DVD edition of the Fedora 10 operating system on your PC. Why the DVD edition? Because we believe it offers most of the applications you'll need. For those of you that don't have a fast Internet connection, we recommend using one of the Live GNOME or KDE4 editions. However, this guide will make things very simple for you, but if you get stuck somewhere in the middle of the installation and you need help, do not hesitate to use our commenting system at the end of the article.

What do I need to get started?

· You will need the Fedora 10 DVD image that corresponds to your hardware architecture (i386 or amd64), and which can be downloaded from here. When the download is over, burn the ISO image with your favorite CD/DVD burning application (Brasero on Linux or Nero, CDBurnerXP, Roxio on Windows) on a blank DVD at 4x speed.
· We, here at the Softpedia Labs, always recommend having an empty hard drive for a Linux installation (that means no other operating system on it, no Windows), and you must have a minimum of 10 GB free space for the Fedora installation.

Great, now let's begin. Insert or leave the DVD in your CD/DVD-ROM device, and reboot the computer in order to boot from the DVD. Hit the F8 or F12 key (depending on your BIOS) to select the CD/DVD-ROM as the boot device.

You'll be presented with a very nice Fedora artwork GRUB splash and some options...

At this stage, we simply suggest you press Enter, and wait for the system to load...

Select the "Skip" option when you're asked if you want to check the media before installation, and press "Enter"...

Anaconda (the Fedora installer) will load and you'll see the welcome screen. Click "Next"...

Choose your language...

Choose your keyboard layout...

Type a name for the computer. It can be anything you want...

Select your location (country/city)...

Enter the root (System Administrator) password. The longer, the better (WRITE IT SOMEWHERE)...

Here comes the partitioning part! If you have an empty hard drive, all you have to do is click "Next," but make sure the"Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout" option is selected. If you don't have an empty hard drive and you still want to install Fedora 10 on your machine, then make sure you select the "Use free space on the selected drives and create default layout" option (10 GB minimum of free space is required). Click "Next"...

We also recommend to select the "Encrypt system" option. Enter a password (the longer, the better) for the encrypted partition...

Click the "Write changes to disk" button when asked...

The hard drive will be formatted and the partitions will be created...

Now, you can select the desired packages...

Hit the "Next" button and everything will be done automatically from now on, just sit back and watch how the packages are copied to your hard drive, or you can read the latest news while enjoying a cup of coffee. The installation process will take about 8-10 minutes (depending on your computer specs and the selected packages).

When the installation is over, you will get a "Congratulations, the installation is complete" screen. Click the "Reboot" button and your computer will automatically restart...