Fedora 29 Netinstall / Server Install Guide

This is guide with screenshots, howto install Fedora 29 (F29) Server using Fedora Netinstall image. This same Fedora Netinstall method work for desktop installation too. Desktop is possible select Software Selection step.

1. Before Fedora 29 Installation

1.1 Download Fedora 29 Netinstall Image

Download Fedora 29 here.

Select Fedora 29 Netinstall image. On this guide I use server install image.

1.2 Burn Fedora 29 Image to CD/DVD, Create Live USB or use image directly and boot computer using Fedora 29 Network Installation Media

Remember to check Fedora 29 image MD5 sum and then burn image to DVD, create Live USB example with liveusb-creator, dd or use directly on virtual environment. And boot computer using Fedora 29 Installation Media.

2. Fedora 29 Installation

2.1 Fedora 29 Boot Option Menu

2.2 Select Language

2.3 Fedora 29 Installation Summary Window

2.4 Select Keyboard Layout(s)

2.5 Select Additional Language

2.6 Setup Date and Time

2.7 Select Installation Source

2.8 Software Selection

Here you can select Server, Minimal install, Desktop, etc.

2.9 Setup Network and Hostname

2.10 Select installation Destination and Partitioning Type

2.11 Full Disk Summary and Bootloader Configuration

2.12 Modify Partitions Manually

Here you can modify partitions as you wish.

2.13 Accept Changes

2.14 Begin Fedora 29 installation

2.15 Package Installation and Setup

2.16 Setup root Password

2.17 Create User Account

Select “Create User Account” and create user.

2.18 Fedora 29 Installation Done

Then simply reboot computer and remove installation media.

3. Using Fedora 29 Server

3.1 Fedora 29 Boot Menu (Grub 2)

3.2 Fedora 29 Server Command Line Login

3.3 Fedora 29 Server Edition

What to do next?

Install nVidia Drivers on Fedora 29

Install Google Chrome on Fedora 29

Install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) on Fedora 29

Install LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) on Fedora 29

Install Adobe Flash Player on Fedora 29

Install Sun/Oracle Java (JDK, JRE) 8 on Fedora 29

Install VirtualBox (with dnf) on Fedora 29

Install PostgreSQL 11.1 on Fedora 29

Install MariaDB on Fedora 29

Install Memcached on Fedora 29