Installing Fedora Scientific on your VM ======================================= Video for this Section ---------------------- Video for this section is `here `_. The first part of the video is the VirtualBox VM creation. Fedora Scientific Linux installation is in the second half of the video. Booting Linux from the DVD ========================== If you haven't done so, + Start **VirtualBox**. + Highlight your **Fedora Scientific** VM. + and press the **Start** **( -> )** button at the top of the window. | You may have already done this while reading the previous section, and your machine is starting up. Either way, you should see the display of your new VM starting up, and after a couple spits, it should look like the following. .. image:: imgs/finst1.PNG :align: center just as it would if you had loaded the Fedora Scientific Install DVD in the DVD drive of a new desktop computer. You can do nothing for 10 seconds, or you can hit the ENTER button. This will start the Linux boot process and the screen switches to this one, with a blue line building across the bottom of the screen. You can also click the little blue **[x]** on the info bubble-bars that popped up at the top of the window. In a short time, the bottom icons will all be there and the file viewer is there. An icon saying " **Install to Hard Drive**" should be there. .. image:: imgs/install2Disk.PNG :align: center Install to Your Hard Drive ========================== To start the Fedora Scientific Installation onto the virtual hard drive of your VM, **double click that icon**. This will start the Installation sequence and you will be prompted for a few configuration items, like your choice of **Language**. I chose *US English*, but you suit yourself. .. image:: imgs/finst5.PNG :align: center | Next you get this window: .. image:: imgs/finst6.PNG :align: center Chances are good that everything is ready except the "**SYSTEM**". The installer would like your permission to partition the virtual disk. Click **SYSTEM** and you should see this window. .. image:: imgs/finst7.PNG :align: center | The "**ATA VBOX HARDDISK**" is probably not highlighted (as it is here). Click Once on the hard drive icon. It should turn teal (like below) and a little check mark should appear. Once yours looks like mine here, Click "**Done**". A window should pop up that looks like this: .. image:: imgs/finst8.PNG :align: center Keep these defaults and Click **Continue**. Then you should have everything ready to go (i.e. no **!** Error Messages), and your screen will look like this. .. image:: imgs/finst10.PNG :align: center Click "**Begin Installation**", in the lower right, to...begin the installation of Fedora Scientific onto your VM's hard drive . The status bar at the bottom will begin to fill rightward, .. image:: imgs/finst11.PNG :align: center and the installer will ask you to do a couple things while it copies and unpacks files. Create Root and User Accounts ============================= The installer will ask you to set up two accounts and give them passwords. .. image:: imgs/finst12.PNG :align: center One is the **Root** account. This is the system adminstrator account and has complete access to the system. Root can open any file, and more importantly delete any file. So be careful! You will use this account occasionally to make changes to things on your Fedora system. Click **Done** to set the Password. The other is the **User** account you will use the rest of the time (i.e. your normal account ). I find that it is easiest to make the **username** of this account the same as your **PacificNET ID**. .. warning:: *Save these passwords somewhere*, or better, use ones that you will remember. If you forget your *User* pasword, you can use to *Root* account to reset it. But if you forget the *Root* password, you may have to reinstall everything. Click **Done** , like before, to create the account and set the Password. | This should bring you back to the main Installation window, with the status bar increasing, followed by post-installation steps. Finally, .. image:: imgs/finst16.PNG :align: center you will see the "**Success!**" banner. Congratulations. If you see this, you most likely have a working installation of Fedora Scientific Linux. | Click **Quit**. This will end the Installation to Disk process, and bring you back to the Fedora Desktop . .. image:: imgs/finst26.PNG :align: center Next, power down the VM by clicking the Fedora "**Start**" **(f)** button, in the lower left corner. Then Click "**Leave**", followed by "**Shutdown**". .. image:: imgs/finst34.PNG :align: center The VM will ask you one more time. Click "**Turn of Computer**" After a couple of system flickers, the VM display should turn **black** and close. Your Oracle VirtualBox window should be back to looking like this, meaning the VM is OFF (and waiting to be awakened again). .. image:: imgs/vbinst20crp.PNG :align: center Boot Linux from Your Hard Drive =============================== Since we still have the ``Fedora-Live-Scientific-...-KDE.iso`` file loaded in the virtural DVD tray of the VM, if we were to power up the machine again, it would boot from DVD and present us with the "**Install to Hard Drive**" icon again. We don't want that. So we need to Eject the ISO file from the DVD drive. But the VM has no eject button... To eject the DVD file, (or in the language of Unix: *unmount* the ISO file), do the following. + In the VirtualBox window, Click the Blue icon on the left for your "**Fedora Scientific**" VM, + then Click the "**Settings**" button at the top. + Click "**Storage**" on the left, and then under **Controller: IDE**, Click the ``Fedora-Live-Scientific...`` DVD icon to highlight it (so it turns blue), .. image:: imgs/removeDVD.PNG :align: center + Then, on the far right, Click the DVD icon to the right of "*CD/DVD Drive: IDE Secondary Master*". + This drops a menu: Select "**Remove disk from virtual drive**" + The DVD icon below *Controller: IDE* (in the center of the window) should say: "**Empty**". + Then Click "**OK**" at the bottom. | Your VM is now ready to boot from its own hard drive, *without* the installation DVD. Go ahead and "**Start**" **( -> )** your Fedora Scientific VM again. This time, you will briefly see a new screen: .. image:: imgs/finst23.PNG :align: center Showing two "kernel" options which you can boot. One is the main Linux system, and the second is a bare-bones Rescue system in case something went wrong. Within about 3 seconds, the main Linux kernel boots and you are presented with a login screen. .. image:: imgs/finst25.PNG :align: center Login with the **Standard Username** (not Root ) in the top box, and the **password** in the lower box, which you created earlier. | **Shazzam!** | Your new Fedora Scientific system should have booted, and you are looking at the **Fedora/KDE** Desktop. Fedora is the version of Linux we are running. Others are: Ubuntu , Debian , etc., and KDE is the version of the Desktop environment. The other popular Linux Desktop is Gnome . Notice the two icons: .. image:: imgs/finst27.PNG :align: center just like you would see on those " Other " common OS's. From here you can probably start to intuit your way around. You have + a **Home** and **Trash** + a **Start Orb** with an **f** at the lower left. + a **Panel** along the bottom of the window, with various icons. Not unlike a Windows or Mac desktop, eh? But without all those 3rd party add-ons. No "*1-month free trial of McAffrey*", or other things fighting for your attention. Go ahead and look around. 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