288Part IIIChoosing and Installing a (Adelphia web hosting) Linux Distribution4.Media check.
288Part IIIChoosing and Installing a Linux Distribution4.Media check. If you re asked to check your installation media, press Enter. Ifthe DVD is damaged, this step saves you the trouble of getting deep into theinstall and then failing. Once the DVD is checked, select Skip to continue. 5.Continue. When the welcome screen appears, click Release Notes to see infor- mation about this version of Fedora Linux. Click Next when you re ready tocontinue. 6.Choose an installation language. Move the arrow keys to the language youwant and then select Next. (Later, you will be able to add additional languages.) 7.Choose a keyboard. Some layouts enable dead keys (on by default). Dead keysenable you to use characters with special markings (such as circumflexes andumlauts). 8.Choose install type. Select either Install Fedora Core for a new install orUpgrade an Existing Installation to upgrade an existing version of Fedora. 9.Select type for new install.Choose one of the following types (also referredto as classes): Personal Desktop Installs software appropriate for a home or officepersonal computer or laptop computer. This includes the GNOME desktop(no KDE) and various desktop-related tools (word processors, Internettools, and so on). Server tools, software development tools, and manysystem administration tools are not installed. Workstation Similar to a Personal Desktop installation but adds toolsfor system administration and software development. (Server software isnot installed.) Any Linux partitions or free space on your hard disk(s) will be assigned to the newinstallation with the Personal Desktop or Workstation types of installation. AnyWindows partitions (VFAT or FAT32 file system types) will not be touched by thisinstall. After installation, you will be able to boot Linux or Windows. If there is nofree space outside your Windows partition, you must run Partition Magic, theparted utility, the FIPS program (described later) or other disk-resizing softwarebefore proceeding, or you will lose your Windows installation. Server Server installs the software packages that you would typicallyneed for a Linux server (in particular, Web server, file server, and printserver). It does not include many other server types (DHCP, mail, DNS, FTP, SQL, or news servers). The default server install does not include aGUI (so you d better know how to use the shell). This install type alsoerases all hard disks and assigns them to Linux by default. This is a big one. In case you didn t catch the previous paragraph, the Server typeinstall erases the entire hard disk by default! If you have an existing Windows parti- tion that you want to keep, change the Automatic Partitioning option that appearsnext either to only remove the Linux Partitions or to only use existing free space. CautionCaution15_