3.3 Obtaining the Fedora 31 Installation Media

For the purposes of this book, download the Fedora 31 Netinstall ISO image from the following URL:

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/31/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-31-1.9.iso

The DVD ISO image is self-contained including all of the packages necessary to install a Fedora 31 system and is named using the following convention:

Fedora-Server-netinst-<architecture>-<version>.iso

For example, the Fedora 31 DVD image for 64-bit Intel systems is named as follows:

Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-31-1.9.iso

Having downloaded the image, either burn it to disk or use the steps in the next section to write the media to a USB drive, configure your virtualization environment to treat it as a DVD drive or use the steps outlined later in this chapter to access the installation image over a network connection.