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Networking: A Beginner’s Guide Fifth Edition- P67:I have run into many people over the years who have gained good even impressive working knowledge of PCs, operating systems, applications, and common problems and solutions. Many of these people are wizards with desktop computers. | 312 Networking A Beginner s Guide Starting the Installation Usually you will start the installation by downloading a copy of Fedora Linux and burning it onto a CD-ROM. Here are the steps for installing that copy 1. To start the installation process boot off the CD-ROM. This will boot Fedora Linux in its live mode in which a fully operating system will start on the system as shown in Figure 20-1. If you like you can explore Fedora s menus and basic applications at this point before continuing with the installation. 2. Double-click the Install to Hard Drive icon on the desktop. This launches the Fedora installation program. 3. You are prompted for the language to use when installing. By default . English is selected. Click Next to continue. Figure 20-1. Fedora Linux started in live mode Chapter 20 Installing Linux 313 1 11 PIpasp name this computer. The hostname identifies the computer on a network. Hostname iBack Next Figure 20-2. Naming the computer 4. You are prompted to name the computer in the format as shown in Figure 20-2. Enter an appropriate name for your computer and then click Next to continue. 5. Choose the time zone in which you are located as shown in Figure 20-3. You can click the map until a city in the same time zone as you is located or you can choose from the available options in the drop-down menu. Once you have selected the time zone click Next to continue. 6. You are prompted to enter a password for the system s root account which is a user named root that has full and complete access to change anything about the system. It is similar to the administrator password on a Windows server. 314 Networking A Beginner s Guide Figure 20-3. Choosing a time zone Accordingly you should choose a good strong password for the root account. Enter your password where prompted and also in the confirmation field. Click Next to continue. 7. You now need to partition the hard disk for the computer. This example assumes that you .