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Unit 1: Introduction to Network Operating System

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figure 1.1: the initial fedora installation screen

The initial installation offers several options. You can choose to install in graphical mode by
hitting Enter, or in text mode by typing linux text at the boot: prompt. Either way, the first thing
the installer will do is offer to check the installation media for you. This is a good way to determine
if your installation CDs have been tampered with, or have become corrupted. The process will
take a little while, but I’d recommend that you do run this test.
Like any operating system, Linux requires a minimal set of hardware drivers during the
installation. After testing the installation media, you’ll see lots of text scrolling down the screen
– this is the initial hardware probing process in action. Red Hat helped pioneer the development
of graphical Linux installers with Anaconda, Red Hat’s installation program. It includes a highly
accurate probing and testing mechanism that makes the rest of the installation routine quite
painless.
Once all this media testing and hardware probing is done, you’ll finally see the Welcome to
Fedora Core screen. Click the Next button to get started.

Task Discuss the first step for installing the RedHat Linux.

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