Fedora Linux Install

1. About

About Rocky Linux

2. OS Install

Download the OS
1. Download Fedora Linux from here.
Copy to USB stick with Rufus
Set PC to boot from the USB stick

3. Post Boot Setup

These steps require console access.

After booting for the first time into Fedora you can
1. Enable 3rd Party Repositories
2. Set your UserName and Password
Change the hostname
1. Check the current hostname
  hostnamectl
2. Set the hostname
  sudo hostnamectl set-hostname my-new-computer
3. Reboot

4. OpenSSH-Server

4.1. Confirm if SSH is already installed

Confirm if the openssh-server is already installed
Run this command
```
rpm -qa | grep openssh-server
```
Example output indicating openssh-server is already installed
```
openssh-server-7.9p1-5.fc30.x86_64
```

4.2. Install OpenSSH-Server

If the above command produced no output, then install:
```
sudo dnf install openssh-server
```
Enable:
```
sudo systemctl enable sshd
```
Start:
```
sudo systemctl start sshd
```
Now you can connect remotely via ssh and continue with the remaining installation steps.

4.3. Configure X11

Confirm X11 forwarding is configured.

Execute this

sudo cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config|grep Forwarding

The following is an example where Xll is not configured

#AllowAgentForwarding yes
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#X11Forwarding no
#	X11Forwarding no
#	AllowTcpForwarding no

If not configured:

Edit

sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Add these lines

X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10    # Not sure if this is required
#X11UseLocalhost yes    # Not sure if this is required

Restart the daemon

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Install xauth

sudo dnf -y install xauth

Now exit the current ssh session and reconnect for the change to take place.

4.4. Check SSH Daemon Status

Check status:
```
sudo systemctl status sshd
```

5. Disable Suspend Mode

Run the following to disable GDM’s sleep and idle timers:

sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

6. Update System

Update System via dnf.
```
sudo dnf -y update
```
If the above seems to hang, run this first:

sudo dnf clean all
This will take a long time…
Upgrade the System via dnf.
```
sudo dnf -y upgrade
```
This will take a long time…

7. Install the `DNF` Package Manager

Install the DNF package manager (not required on RedHat 8/CentOS 8/Rocky 8)
```
sudo yum install -y dnf
```

Install EPEL repository

sudo dnf install -y epel-release

If the previous command failed, try this one:

sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

Enable the CodeReady Builder (CRB) repository.
```
sudo /usr/bin/crb enable
```
Make the DNF cache
```
sudo dnf makecache
```

8. Limit Available Kernals

The /boot partition is 1GB large. To prevent running out of space, limit the number of available kernals.
Edit this file
```
sudo nano /etc/yum.conf
```
Change this value
```
installationonly_limit=2
```

9. Resize Root partition

9.1. Rocky

Incomplete!

On Rocky Linux, the root partition will start off at ~70GB with the /home partition being allocated with the bulk of the remaining space.
Use the following to first shrink the /home file system and grow the root file system.

First, get the Filesystem name for the /home filesystem:

lsblk

Example output

sda                             8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda1                          8:1    0   576M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2                          8:2    0     1G  0 part /boot
└─sda3                          8:3    0 929.8G  0 part
  ├─rl_p--rocky--phoenix-root 253:0    0    70G  0 lvm  /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay
  │                                                     /
  ├─rl_p--rocky--phoenix-swap 253:1    0  15.7G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  └─rl_p--rocky--phoenix-home 253:2    0 844.1G  0 lvm  /home

9.2. Fedora Server

On Fedora Server, the root partition will start off at 15GB.
Use the following to use all of the available space.

First, get the Filesystem name for the root / filesystem:

df -hT

Sample

Filesystem                              Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/fedora_p--fed--phoenix-root xfs        15G   12G  3.3G  79% /           (1)
devtmpfs                                devtmpfs  4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs                                   tmpfs      16G  168K   16G   1% /dev/shm

1	Note the Filesystem name required for the next steps.

Resize the volume

sudo lvextend /dev/mapper/fedora_p--fed--phoenix-root -l+100%FREE

Sample Result

  Size of logical volume fedora_p-fed-phoenix/root changed from 15.00 GiB (3840 extents) to <929.80 GiB (238028 extents).
  Logical volume fedora_p-fed-phoenix/root successfully resized.

Grow

sudo xfs_growfs /dev/mapper/fedora_p--fed--phoenix-root

Sample Result

meta-data=/dev/mapper/fedora_p--fed--phoenix-root isize=512    agcount=4, agsize=983040 blks
. . .
data blocks changed from 3932160 to 243740672

Confirm the / Filesystem has grown:

df -hT

Sample

Filesystem                              Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/fedora_p--fed--phoenix-root xfs       930G   30G  901G   4% /           (1)
devtmpfs                                devtmpfs  4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs                                   tmpfs      16G  168K   16G   1% /dev/shm

1	Note the Filesystem has a new size.

10. Open Ports

Add ports

sudo firewall-cmd --add-port={8080/tcp,8443/tcp,5435/tcp,7912/tcp,7878/tcp,8010/tcp,8081/tcp,8082/tcp,8085/tcp,9443/tcp,11434/tcp,3013/tcp,3012/tcp,3010/tcp,3011/tcp,8447/tcp} --permanent

Reload FW Daemon
```
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
```

11. Install Apps

11.1. Install Utilities

Install
```
sudo dnf -y install yum-utils
```

11.2. NMAP

Install
```
sudo dnf -y install nmap
```

11.3. Fastfetch

Install fastfetch:

sudo dnf -y install fastfetch

Sample output

$ fastfetch

          __wgliliiligw_,              *@*
       _williiiiiiliilililw,           ----------------------
     _%iiiiiilililiiiiiiiiiii_         OS: Rocky Linux 10.1 (Red Quartz) x86_64
   .Qliiiililiiiiiiililililiilm.       Host: B650D4U-2L2T/BCM
  _iiiiiliiiiiililiiiiiiiiiiliil,      Kernel: Linux 6.12.0-124.20.1.el10_1.x86_64
 .lililiiilililiiiilililililiiiii,     Uptime: 52 seconds
_liiiiiiliiiiiiiliiiiiF{iiiiiilili,    Packages: 1592 (rpm), 5 (snap)
jliililiiilililiiili@`  ~ililiiiiiL    Shell: bash 5.2.26
iiiliiiiliiiiiiili>`      ~liililii    Display (default): 3440x1440 in 39"
liliiiliiilililii`         -9liiiil    Cursor: Adwaita
iiiiiliiliiiiii~             "4lili    Terminal: /dev/pts/0
4ililiiiiilil~|      -w,       )4lf    CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (16) @ 5.18 GHz
-liiiiililiF'       _liig,       )'    GPU 1: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family
 )iiiliii@`       _QIililig,           GPU 2: AMD Phoenix1 [Integrated]
  )iiii>`       .Qliliiiililw          Memory: 2.24 GiB / 122.94 GiB (2%)
   )<>~       .mliiiiiliiiiiil,        Swap: 0 B / 23.29 GiB (0%)
            _gllilililiililii~         Disk (/): 7.44 GiB / 69.90 GiB (11%) - xfs
           giliiiiiiiiiiiiT`           Disk (/SingleDisk): 128.00 KiB / 886.89 GiB (0%) - zfs
          -^~$ililili@~~'              Disk (/home): 3.43 GiB / 137.91 GiB (2%) - xfs
                                       Disk (/mnt/MirroredPool): 143.88 MiB / 56.54 GiB (0%) - zfs
                                       Local IP (enp10s0f1np1): 192.168.*.*/24
                                       Locale: en_US.UTF-8

11.4. Firewall GUI Tool

Install
```
sudo dnf install -y firewall-config
```

11.5. Gedit

Install
```
sudo dnf -y install gedit
```

11.6. Snap

Install
```
sudo dnf -y install snapd
```
This will take some time…
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

To test your system, install the hello-world snap and make sure it runs correctly:

Run

sudo snap install hello-world

Example Result

hello-world 6.3 from Canonical✓ installed
$ hello-world
Hello World!

11.7. Developer Tools

11.7.1. Git

sudo dnf -y install git

11.7.2. Visual Studio Code

Reference this VSCode doc.

Snap needs to be installed first.

11.8. Samba

Reference this doc: Samba Notes

11.9. ZFS

Reference the ZFS Notes to install ZFS.
Reference the above Doc to also import ZFS Storage Pools.

11.10. Install Containerization

11.10.1. Podman

Reference doc.
Install via this doc: Podman-Notes

11.11. Video Driver

Install a graphics driver:
Nvidia: Nvidia Fedora Notes

11.12. Cockpit

Reference this doc: Cockpit Notes

11.13. Podman

Reference this doc: Podman Notes

12. Install Desktop

Follow Linux Desktops

13. Install Backup Software

Install Time Shift
```
sudo dnf -y install timeshift
```

14. Additional Configurations

Suggestions

15. Troubleshooting

15.1. Boot failure

If booting the system results in Emergency Mode
1. First try to boot with the previous kernal which can be selected from the initial boot menu.
2. After booting into the system with the previous kernal, try to Update/Reinstall the Kernal:
  sudo dnf reinstall kernel-core
3. Now reboot