The Installation Process / Custom Bunches of Software
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Custom Bunches of Software. This is the last part of the installation process and before we get into software selection there are a couple of steps to go over. First there is the configuration of the boot loader, GRUB, short for the Ground Unified Bootloader. The default shown here is to install GRUB on the MBR, the Master Boot Record, of the noted hard drive in this case Div/sda. That would be the first SCSI or sata hard drive. A boot loader password, if you so select it would help protect the boot loader from changes or from crackers who might want to boot the system in an unauthorized manner. If there's more than one operating system it would be shown in the boot loader operating system list down here. You would make your selections and click Next. The system looks for installation repositories and if necessary it would allow you to configure a network interface. You choose whether to set up dynamic, that's DHCP configuration, and you can also choose IP versions for support which I recommend in most cases as not all network hardware supports anything beyond IP version 4. Now with the software options Fedora 11, at this point, allows you to include office and productivity applications. The checkbox shown here means that the openoffice.org suite and a few other selected other applications are installed by default. Software development tools would include what you would need to compile a kernel. If you select the web server package group you would get the Apache Web Server, the most popular Web Server on the Internet. The standard installation repository may be supplemented by Rawhide or an update repository so we click Customize now for the sake of illustration and click Next to customize additional options, and we see options in a number of categories. From Desktop Environments we have an option of different Desktop environments. Depending on what repositories you've selected you may see additional Desktop environments. You can select application groups such as authoring and publishing for things like TeX and LaTeX, common editors such as emacs nVi. Engineering and scientific applications such as plotters. Games and entertainment if you so choose. Graphical Internet options include applications such as Evolution Personal Information Manager and the Firefox Web Browser. Graphics applications include Chimp, the GNU image manipulation program. Office and productivity applications include the openoffice.org suite just described. Sound and video applications include options as described in the description here not only for playing CDs and DVDs but also for configuring sound and video settings on the local system. Finally, text-based Internet applications support applications that you can use at the Command Line Interface to browse the Internet to get your e-mail and so on. Development tools include options appropriate for software developers. You can choose a variety of different services for Fedora 11 but this is a Desktop Course so I won't go over any of these in detail. The base system includes administration tools which you really do need. If you connect by modem you can have dial up networking support and, of course, Fedora 11 includes support for a huge number of human languages. Once selections are made you click Next, the system checks for dependencies based on what you've selected and once that process is complete you're prompted to confirm and the installation process begins. Well, these are the final steps associated with the installation process.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Fedora 11 |
| Author: | Michael Jang |
| SKU: | 34031 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-67-X |
| Release Date: | 2009-09-16 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 86 lessons |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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