Chapter 5: Installing Linux
Hardware specifications
Host software requirements
Installing VirtualBox
Install VirtualBox on a Linux host
Install VirtualBox on a Windows host
Creating the VM
VirtualBox Manager
Configuring the virtual network
Preparing disk space
Windows
Linux
Download the ISO image
You can download the latest Fedora Xfce ISO image from the official Fedora website.
Creating the VM
- Click the “New” button
- Name the VM, e.g. “StudentVM1”
- Choose your VM storage as the “Machine folder”
- Select “Linux” as the type
- Select “Fedora (64-bit)” as the version
- Set memory size to at least 4096 MB
- Click “Create”
- Set virtual disk size to 60 GB
- Click “Create”
- Click “Settings”
- Select “System”
- On “Processor” tab, set CPUs to 2
- Select “Display”
- Set video memory to 128 MB
- Select “Storage”
- Increase the “Controller: SATA” port count to 5
- Select “Network”
- Select “Adapter 1”
- Set “Attached to” to “NAT Network”
- Click “Advanced”
- Click the “OK” button
Boot the Fedora live image
Installing Fedora
Start the installation
Set the hostname
Hard drive partitioning
We’ll start by adding the BIOS boot partition which is required for the boot manager to work. The size of this partition is 1 MB.
Next, we’ll add the boot partition that will contain the boot manager and the kernel. The size of this partition is 2 GB.