April 17, 2014

How to install Fedora 20 64bit on new machine or as a replacement for XP

I am going to show how to install fedora 20 64bit as a replacement for your existing XP or a fresh installation. Remember to backup important data before any installation procedure.

1. Download fedora 20 64bit - This file is around 900MB so wait patiently
Fedora 20 64-bit
2. Download Fedora live USB installer – 13MB file to make fedora bootable from your USB. 2GB min USB size needed
3. Install Live USB in your current XP/Win7/Win8 OS and choose your C directory preferably. Don’t install in USB 




























4. Run LiveUSB Creater from below screen or from Start Menu 














5. Now it is time to choose the Fedora 20 OS that we have downloaded. By default the target pen drive is highlighted if not select the USB which you want to make as bootable















6. Click browse and choose the OS ISO file














7. Click create USB. ‘Extracting live image…’ appears. Wait for FEDORA 20 ISO to be copied to the USB. LiveUSB automatically makes the USB boot-able.
















8. Once completed, close the window and reboot system with the pen drive present. Remember that you can either install fedora alongside windows or do a complete replacement. Here I am showing a method to replace windows XP.

9.  Now boot into drive and start the installation by entering flash drive














10. Start Fedora Live. This will start a live instance just like a demo from where you can install








11. Click install to hard drive and choose your installation destination








12. Now choose your Hard Disk if multiple hard disks are present and click done














13. Click custom partitioning and delete all existing partitions. Please note that this will delete all existing data. So carefully delete only the volumes that are unnecessary to get space.








14. After you have enough space for installation, click ‘click here to create them automatically’ 














15. The partitions are automatically created and shown as preview. Till here only changes are shown and not applied to the system . In case you want to revert , click Reset All else click Done and click ‘Accept Changes’














16. Choose your root and user password. Don’t lose these password as it is not possible to recover








17. Finally, wait for the installation to get over. Once installation is done. Click Quit. Restart System
















18. After you have rebooted and logged in, it is time to do some installations to enable Flash, Java, Chrome, Mp3 etc…

19. Open app called Terminal and type ‘su’. Enter root password.

20. We’ll now include the repositories which are internet directories from which softwares are downloaded and installed. RPM Fusion and Livna are the needed repositories. Open Terminal application and paste the following

RPM Fusion:
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

Livna:

Chrome Browser:
  • Type vim /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo then , copy the following into the file and enter :wq to save the file
[google-chrome]name=google-chrome - 64-bit
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
  • Enter yum install google-chrome-stable


Java:
  • Download from Java Website
  • Change to the directory in which you have downloaded java. Type:
cd 
For example, to change to download directory, Type:
cd /home/user/Downloads/
  • Install the package. 
rpm -ivh  
  • Delete the .rpm file if you want to save disk space.

Flash:
  • Download from Adobe Website
  • Change to the directory in which you have downloaded java. Type:
cd 
For example, to change to download directory, Type:
cd /home/user/Downloads/
  • Add the repository. This only adds flash repository
rpm -ivh
  • Install flash
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

Remember that all the above mentioned procedures require root access.



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