Fedora Core 2 Server installation

Fedora Core 2 Server installation by Author:Rana Rizwan Ahmed, translated by English Linux

• Insert Fedora Core CD in CDRom and restart your PC from CDRom Boot.
• on first screen of Fedora Core installation press “enter” to install Fedora Core in graphix mode.
• Now installation ask for “Check / test CD Media …..” press “tab” button to highlight “skip” and press “spacebar”.
• Now your installation “Probe” your system graphix card, monitor and other hardware.

• Click “Next” on Installation screen.
• Now installation asks to select language of installation, select “English” and click “Next”.
• Select keyboard type “US. English” and click Next.

• Now the installation ask to select installation type, select “Server” and click Next.
• This Screen ask you how you want disk partitions select “automatically partition” and click next.
• Now select “remove all partitions on this system” and click Next.
• Now installation shows your partition table, which it creates automatically,

 click  Next and don’t change any partition. (until you know what are you doing).

• Click Next and don’t change anything on this screen.
• In network device window you have to setup your network card and your system name, to do this select “manually “ and type a name for your system, e.g. testpc.
• Now click on edit to edit your network card “eth0” properties.
  
• Now deselect “Configure using DHCP” and select “activate on boot”.
  
• Now type IP address for your network card and type its subnet mask and click OK.

• Now type your gateway IP address for your system and type DNS IP, and click Next.
• Select “No firewall” and click Next.(the system will ask you for select firewall, click on “proceed”)
• Select “English ( USA )” for default language of your system and click Next.
• Select “Asia/ Karachi ” for time zone and click Next.
• Now type “a password for your ROOT user” and click Next.
• Now its time to select packages for Fedora Core server installation,

• Select these below mention packages to install your Fedora Core as a DNS server.

           ►        Desktop.
           ├         KDE (K Desktop environment)

           ►        Applications.
           ├         editor → click details and select “joe” click OK.
           ├         Graphical Internet.
           ├         Text base Internet → click details and select “lynx- A text base…….” and click OK.

           ►        Servers.
           ├         Servers Configuration tools,
           ├         Web Server.
           ├         Windows file server.
           ├         DNS Server.
           ├         FTP server.

           ►        Development.
           ├         Development tools,
           ├         Kernel Development.
           ├         KDE Software Development.

           ►        System.
           ├         Administration Tools.
           ├         System tools → details → and select MRTG, Net-SNMP-utils, uucp and click Next.

• Now click Next after selection of packages.

    Click Next.
    System will ask you “Do you have all CDs for installation” click Proceed.

(if you don't have all 4 Fedora Core CD's for installation, SLAP on your head and go get them)

• Now sit back and relax while system installs its installation files.

Now your system will ask you for reboot after installation of all CDs. If all goes fine, say HiP HiP Hurrrrrrrrrrayyyyyyy. your Fedora Core installation done successfully.

After 1st boot, you will see a Welcome Screen of Fedora Core, Click Next.

    On license agreement check mark “Yes, I agree to license” and click Next.
    Click Next on Date and time.
    Click Next if you are agreeing with resolution setting of your monitor, or change it as you wish.
    On “user account” window, create a TEST user and click Next.
    Click Next on “Sound card” window,
    Click Next on “Additional CDs” window.
    Click Next on “Finish Setup” window.
    Now type username “root” and its password to loginIN in your system.