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Chapter 8 . Running Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 283 Choosing Computer Hardware Choosing your computer hardware may not really be a choice. You may just have an old PC lying around on which you want to try Fedora. Or you may have a killer workstation with some extra disk space and want to try Fedora out on a separate partition or whole disk. To install the PC version of Fedora (the version on the accompanying DVD) successfully, the computer must have the following: . Processor The Pentium-class PC needs to be at least 200 MHz for text mode and 400 MHz Pentium II for GUI. . RAM You need at least 64MB of RAM to install Fedora. If you are running in graphical mode, you need at least 192MB. The recommended RAM for graphical mode is 256MB. . DVD or CD drive You need to be able to boot up the installation process from a DVD or CD (the latter requires that you get Fedora Core installation CDs as described at http://fedora.redhat.com/download). If you can t boot from a DVD or CD, there are ways to start the installation from a hard disk or using a PXE install, as the following section, Choosing an Installation Method, explains. . Hard disk Following is the required minimum disk space for five different installations. In each case, you will want to have more disk space than the minimums listed here: Personal Desktop 1.9GB Workstation 2.4GB Server 870MB Everything (Custom) 5.3GB Minimum (Custom) 520MB . 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.) Although not included with this book, Fedora Linux 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 PCs. Most of the software described in this book will work the same in any of those hardware environments. (Check out http://redhat.com/mirrors for sites that offer Fedora Linux for different computer hardware architectures.) The list of hardware supported by previous versions of Red Hat Linux is available on the Internet at www.redhat.com/hardware. Note
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