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You're reading from Fedora 31 Essentials Learn how to install, administer, and deploy Fedora 31 systems

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562790

Length 271 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Fedora

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Neil Smyth

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Table of Contents (32) Chapters

1. Introduction

2. A Brief History of Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Installing Fedora 31 on a Clean Disk Drive

4. Dual Booting Fedora 31 with Windows

5. Allocating Windows Disk Partitions to Fedora 31

6. A Guided Tour of the GNOME 3 Desktop

7. An Overview of the Fedora 31 Cockpit Web Interface

8. Using the Bash Shell on Fedora 31

9. Managing Fedora 31 Users and Groups

10. Understanding Fedora 31 Software Installation and Management

11. Configuring Fedora 31 systemd Units

12. Fedora 31 Network Management

13. Basic Fedora 31 Firewall Configuration with firewalld

14. Configuring SSH Key-based Authentication on Fedora 31

15. Fedora 31 Remote Desktop Access with VNC

16. Displaying Fedora 31 Applications Remotely (X11 Forwarding)

17. Using NFS to Share Fedora 31 Files with Remote Systems

18. Sharing Files between Fedora 31 and Windows Systems with Samba

19. An Overview of Virtualization Techniques

20. Installing KVM Virtualization on Fedora 31

21. Creating KVM Virtual Machines using Cockpit and virt-manager

22. Creating KVM Virtual Machines with virt-install and virsh

23. Creating a Fedora 31 KVM Networked Bridge Interface

24. Managing KVM using the virsh Command-Line Tool

25. An Introduction to Linux Containers

26. Working with Containers on Fedora 31

27. Setting Up a Fedora 31 Web Server

28. Configuring a Fedora 31 Postfix Email Server

29. Adding a New Disk Drive to a Fedora 31 System

30. Adding a New Disk to a Fedora 31 Volume Group and Logical Volume

31. Adding and Managing Fedora 31 Swap Space

Index

3.4 Writing the ISO Installation Image to a USB Drive

These days it is more likely that an operating system installation will be performed from a USB drive than from a DVD. Having downloaded the ISO installation image for Fedora 31, the steps to write that image to a USB drive will differ depending on whether the drive is attached to a Linux, macOS or Windows system. The steps outlined in the remainder of this section assume that the USB drive is new, or has been reformatted to remove any existing data or partitions:

3.4.1 Linux

The first step in writing an ISO image to a USB drive on Linux is to identify the device name. Before inserting the USB drive, identify the storage devices already detected on the system by listing the devices in /dev as follows:

# ls /dev/sd*

/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2

Attach the USB drive to the Linux system and run the dmesg command to get a list of recent system messages, one of which will be a report that the USB drive was detected and...

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