Fedora

Fedora is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat.

Installation on Lenovo Thinkpad L440 Virtualbox

• VirtualBox

• Name Fedora18
• Linux
• Fedora (64 bit)
• next
• 768MB RAM
• create virtual hard drive
• create
• VDI
• next
• Fixed disk size: 8GB
• create
• Change to 2 CPUs and 128 video memory
• Start
• Choose ISO
• Start Fedora 18
• Live User System
• Ctrl + f
• Install to hard disk
• Language english
• continue
• keyboard, +, portugese (portuguese)
• Add
• Remove english keyboard
• done
• Date and time, region europe, city Lisbon, Done

• Installation destination, ATA VBOX HardDisk, done

• Begin installation
• Root password: ********
• confirm, done, quit
• Live System User, Power off, restart

Setup system

• Welcome
• Forward, forward, create user vitor, password: ********, Finish
• Sign in vitor
• Activities, terminal, su, cat /etc/redhat_release
• yum install kernel-devel-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686
• yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel
• yum update
• yum install gcc
• ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run # after mounting the guest additions with virtualbox

Disk resize

• Fedora 18 VM, settings, storage, controller SATA, add hard disk

• create new disk, VDI, next, dynamic allocation, Fedora18Disk2, 8GB, create

• cfdisk /dev/sdb
• new, primary, type 8e (Linux LVM), write, quit
• fdisk -l
• pvcreate /dev/sdb1
• vgdisplay
• vgextend fedora /dev/sdb1
• pvscan
• lvdisplay
• lvextend /dev/fedora/root /dev/sdb1
• vgdisplay
• resize2fs /dev/fedora/root