Fedora20 installation

You know, i was and still Am a Debian guru and fan particularly Ubuntu due to it's simplicity and maintainability. Most of my friends called me a Linux Guru which is true if it's a Debian based system. But the truth be told, i had no idea how RedHat worked and felt that guilt of being called a Linux guru yet i hardly know Redhat based systems.  Recently when a friend asked me a question about choosing between the two main Linux Streams (Debian and RedHat) trust me i had to recommend Debian (Ubuntu to be precise) but wasn't all that honest so i decided to try out a RedHat distro known for it's cutting edge technology. It's called Fedora. I downloaded the 64Bit of Fedora20 and tried it out. After a long gamble alone, i finally figured how to install this incredibly weird OS. These were the outcomes.

Download fedora iso from here. 64bit is currently available and acquire the universal usb installer and install as described here. 

make sure you don't have anything on your flash and i'd recommend you format the flash disk before anything else, create the bootable flash disk and reboot your pc.

Change your PC BIOS to install from pen-drive and reboot again into your flash drive. Select the Boot Fedora option and Let it load. 

One issue might appear. the cursor will be non functional as in you can't clck on anything so my advice, USE THE KEYBOARD SHOTCUT [TAB] key to navigate through. You'll see the highlighted  button or selection active, then press enter to activate that option. 

The part that bores me is the Searching for wireless networks part you can't seem to escape till it's done. Just hang in there till the guy gives up or finds a network.

Now enter your details and start testing fedora.

Press the super button (Windows Logo button) and type settings, then press enter and using the tab key + Scroll Down Key, navigate to the Mouse settings and activate the Tap to click  option.Now your mouse(Touchpad) can click. WOW I bet your happy but wait, you've just started the journey. 

Press your super key or swipe your mouse pointer to the TOP Left of your screen and type terminal, press enter and do a su - command. Enter your password( the one you entered when filling in your details) and you shall become root the run this commands

cd /usr/bin

./live_install

the second command I'm not sure it's exactly like that but just type in ./live and press tab to auto_complete. Press Enter(Return) and wait for the installer (anaconda) to launch. 

Please go through the Select Installation Media and select the partition you wish to install fedora on. when your done and accept the settings after a thorough review please, click done and proceed to install fedora.

Setup your userdetails and password issues and proceed. The rest is just simple plain English. when your done, let the installation finish and the you can continue testing fedora or reboot wothout a flash this time.

You should see a new grub menu this time and select Fedora. It's usually highlighted as default. Enter and proceed.


Enjoy Fedora with great ease. Once logged in and connected to Internet, I advice you update your yum repos like this

su -c 'yum update'

Enter your password for root and let it update your repo. To install a software, type in this as root or prepend su -c and place the command in quotes (preferably single quotes).

yum install <package_name>

To remove a package simply type in the following command as root

yum remove <package_name>

to install an rpm package downloaded use the rpm command like this

su -c 'rpm -i <package_name>

for more details about rpm go to RPM usages and know more about this command. Enjoy Fedora just like me coz it's really cool. GNOME IS COOL.