A beginners guide to Fedora

Fedora has been the operating system of my choice. From my experience I have seen that the real hurdle is installing and setting up a running fedora system that support some basic features like internet access, playing music and videos.
For any one installing fedora for the first time I have certain quick tips.
For any fedora installations I recommend at least 10 GB hard disk space. If you are using Windows XP then from management create a 10 GB partition.

Now, while installing fedora select manually edit partitions, delete that 10 GB partition. After that :
1. Create an optimal swap partition. [ Use between 600-900 MB if you don't have a clue what to put ]
2. For the rest create : ext3 partition , mount point /, and select to allocate full

It would be better if you have Partition magic. Using partition magic create a partition of 10GB and format it to linux partition. Now while installing fedora select remove linux partitions and create a default layout.

That's what you need to know while installing.

Now the next step is get internet running in your fedora system.
If it's a dsl connection you have got then simply open up a terminal and run the following command.

pppoe-setup

Follow the instructions and you are set to go further.


Having done that I feel you need sound and video to work in your system. Well that's not a thing to worry about. All you need is to download Easylife for fedora.
This small software will take care of all steps of configuring sound, video and many
other optimal configuration.

That's it..... what more do you want, you have done it all.
Be happy with Linux.