3. Installing Fedora 31 on a Clean Disk Drive

There are now two ways in which a Fedora 31 system can be deployed. One method is to either purchase new hardware or re-purpose an existing computer system on which to install and run the operating system. Another option is to create a cloud-based operating system instance using services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure (to name but a few). Since cloud-based instances are typically created by selecting a pre-configured, ready to run operating system image that is already optimized for the cloud platform, and using that as the basis for the Fedora system, there is no need to perform a manual operating system installation in this situation.

If, on the other hand, you plan to install Fedora 31 on your own hardware, the first step on the path to learning about Fedora involves installing the operating system.

Fedora can be installed either in a clean disk environment (where an entire disk is cleared of any existing...