TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter gives detailed information on installing Fedora Linux on your system. If your system already has another operating system such as Windows XP, you can install Fedora Linux as the second operating system. At the boot time, you can select one of the operating systems to boot. Such systems are called dual-boot systems. If you want to install it as the only operating system, you can skip some of the steps described in this chapter.
The default software packages installed do not include the compilers and assemblers that we need for the assembly language programming. We show how software packages can be installed and removed by using the package management tool provided by Fedora Linux.
We also discuss how files can be shared between the Windows and Linux operating systems. To share files between these two operating systems, you need to mount a Windows partition so that it is accessible under Linux. We provide detailed instructions to mount Windows partitions. Toward the end of the chapter, we give information on how you can get help if you run into installation problems.
This chapter describes the Fedora Core 3 Linux operating system installation process. The book comes with two DVD-ROMs. The first DVD-ROM (DVD 1) contains the complete Fedora 3 distribution. It is a copy of the distribution available at the Red Hat's Fedora Web site (www.fedora.redhat.com). The second DVD-ROM (DVD 2) contains the source code and CD-ROM...
