Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System

[Rick Stevens]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:08, Ubique Enterprises wrote:
>> a) Download a Fedora Operating System on a folder in the hard disk. And
>> transfer it out of this computer to another stand alone machine which
>> currently has only a 256 MB RAM with the help of a pen drive/pen drive
>> having a 1 gb capacity. Wish to install using the pen drive after wiping
>> out the earlier Windows Operating Systems - Win XP installed on it.
>>
>> Possible?
> 
> "Anything is possible, if you push the gas pedal hard enough" :-)
> 
>> How?
> 
> I suppose there are multiple ways to do this, but I would consider downloading 
> the Fedora Live (or Fedora KDE Live) iso image which fits on a good old 700MB 
> cd. Use the pen drive to transfer it to any computer which can burn cds (I 
> can't find one that still cannot do this...). Burn the image, then take it to 
> your computer and install.
> 
> Or you might install from the pen drive itself, but that is more complicated.
> 
>> Step- By -Step please.
> 
> This is just an outline of the step-by-step instructions. I assume you are 
> capable of handling the details.
> 
> 1) download Fedora 9 Live iso image
> 2) copy the .iso file to the pen drive
> 3) go to the nearest shop and buy an empty cd (or rather two, for safety)
> 4) go to the nearest internet caffe and burn the image from the pen drive to 
> the cd.
> 5) there is a catch in step 4, don't burn the .iso file to the cd, but rather 
> burn *its content* to the cd. Use the second cd if you already did this 
> wrong, have the local admin help you if you don't know what you are doing
> 6) take the cd to your computer and boot it using the cd. When the install 
> starts, be sure to perform the "check media" step before continuing.
> 7) Educate yourself about Fedora, Linux, computers in general. It will prove 
> useful later in life.

Or read the real, honest installation guide at

	http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/

That should answer all questions.
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