I recommend at least 2GB to 3GB if you are installing a desktop system. (The Fedora
Project recommends at least five percent of additional free space, plus any disk space you
require for user data.)
Keyboard and monitor??”You need a keyboard and monitor at least during installation.
(You can operate Fedora quite well over a LAN using either a shell interface from a network
login or an X terminal.)
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Running Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Although not included with this book, Fedora versions are available for the AMD64 architecture.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions (which you have to purchase from Red Hat, Inc.) are available
for other hardware, such as Intel Itanium, IBM PowerPC, and IBM mainframe. The Fedora distribution
that comes with this book and the installation procedures presented here are specific to x86
architecture PCs.
Most of the software described in this book will work the same in any of those hardware environments.
(Check out Fedoraproject.org for sites that offer Fedora for different computer hardware
architectures.)
To begin installing Fedora, you also need to have installed media, such as the Linux Bible 2008
Edition DVD that comes with this book (or a set of installation CDs that you obtain yourself). Also
you must either be dedicating your entire hard disk (or an added hard disk) to Linux, have a preconfigured
Linux partition, or have sufficient free space on your hard disk outside any existing
Windows partition.
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