Installation Guide of Fedora 24 Workstation with Screenshots

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In this how to guide, I will walk you through the various steps you can follow to install Fedora 24 on your machine, the installation process includes screen shots from every step, so there is no need to worry about missing any vital information from.

The installation of Fedora 24 is not in any specific way different from Fedora 23 installation, so I suppose you will find it so.

What’s New in Fedora 24 Workstation?

With every new release of a Linux distribution, users expect a lot of new features and major improvements, that is the same case with Fedora 24, it comes with certain new features and these include:

  1. GNOME 3.20
  2. Easier input device and printer settings
  3. Better search interface
  4. Convenient music controls
  5. Shortcuts windows for keyboard commands
  6. Flatpak software packaging format
  7. Wayland graphics stack, a continued work on X replacement
  8. Software app includes system upgrade functionality and many other minor improvements

Lets get started, but before we go further, you may wish to upgrade from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24, here is a link below for those who do not want a fresh installation:

  1. Upgrade Fedora 23 Workstation to Fedora 24 Workstation

If you want to continue with this guide for a fresh installation, then first you will need to download Fedora 24 live image from the links below:

  1. Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24-1.2.iso
  2. Fedora-Workstation-Live-i386-24-1.2.iso

Installation of Fedora 24 Workstation

After downloading the live installation image, you need to make a bootable media such as CD/DVD or USB flashdrive using following article.

  1. Create Bootable Media using Unetbootin and dd Command

If your bootable media is ready, then proceed installation steps.

1. Insert your bootable media into a drive/port and boot from it, you should be able to see this screen below. There are two options, one you can start live Fedora 24 or test the installation media for any errors before starting Fedora 24 live.

Fedora 24 Boot Screen
Fedora 24 Boot Screen

2. There are two options, one is for trying out Fedora 24 without installing it and the second is to install it to the Hard Drive, select “Install to Hard Drive”.

Install Fedora 24 to Hard Drive
Install Fedora 24 to Hard Drive

3. Next, choose the installation language and click Continue.

Select Fedora 24 Installation Language
Select Fedora 24 Installation Language

4. You will see this customization interface to configure your Keyboard layout, Time and Date, Installation disk, Network and Hostname.

Fedora 24 Installation Summary
Fedora 24 Installation Summary

Configure Keyboard Layout

5. Select the default Keyboard language your system will use, you can find more options by clicking on the “+” button, after selecting, click on Done.

Configure Keyboard Layout
Configure Keyboard Layout

Set Time and Date

6. Here, you will configure system timezone, time and date, in case your system is connected to the Internet, then time and date will be detected automatically. Setting time manually is more helpful according to your location. After that click Done.

Configure Timezone Location
Configure Timezone Location

Configure Installation Disk

7. In this step, you will configure your system partitions and filesystem types for every system partition. There are two ways to setup partitions, one is automatically and another manually.

In this guide, I have chosen to do it manually. So, click on the disk image to select it and select “I will configure partitions manually”. Then click Done to go to the next screen in the next step.

Configure Fedora 24 Installation Destination
Configure Fedora 24 Installation Destination

8. In the screen below, select “Standard Partition” partitioning scheme from the drop down menu, for creating mounting points for the various partitions you will create.

Select Standard Partition
Select Standard Partition

9. Use the “+” button to create a new partition, let us start by creating the root (/) partition, so specify the following in the screen below:

  1. Mount point: /
  2. Desired Capacity: 15GB

The partition size I have selected is the purpose of this guide, you can set a capacity of your choice according to the size of your system disk.
After that click on “Add mount point”.

Create root Partition
Create root Partition

Set the filesystem type for the root file system created in the previous step, I have used ext4.

Set root Partition Filesystem Type
Set root Partition Filesystem Type

10. Add the home partition mount point which will store system users files and home directories. Then click on “Add mount point” to proceed to the next step.

Create Home Partition
Create Home Partition

Set the filesystem type for the home partition as in the interface below.

Set Home Partition Filesystem Type
Set Home Partition Filesystem Type

11. Create a swap partition, this is space on the hard disk that is allocated to hold extra data in system RAM that is not actively being used by the system in case RAM is used up. Then click on “Add mount point” to create the swap space.

Create Swap Partition
Create Swap Partition

12. Next, after creating all the necessary mount points, then click on Done button. You will see the interface below for you to effect all the changes to your disk. Click on “Accept Changes” to continue.

Confirm Partition Changes
Confirm Partition Changes

Setup Network and Hostname

13. From the previous step, you will see configuration screen, next, click on “Network and Hostname”. Provide the hostname you want to use for your Fedora 24, click on Done to move back to the configuration screen.

Configure Network Hostname
Configure Network Hostname

14. Begin the actual Fedora 24 installation of system files by clicking on “Begin Installation” from the screen below.

Begin Fedora 24 Installation
Begin Fedora 24 Installation

15. As the system files are being installed, you can setup system users.

Setup Fedora 24 Users
Setup Fedora 24 Users

To setup root user, click on “ROOT PASSWORD” and add a root password, then click Done.

Setup root User Password
Setup root User Password

Move over to normal system “USER CREATION” and fill in the necessary information including giving administrator privileges to the user plus set a password for the user as in the interface below, then click Done.

Create User and Password
Create User and Password

Wait for the installation to finish after setting system users, when installation is complete, click Quit at the bottom right corner and reboot your system.

Fedora 24 Installation Process
Fedora 24 Installation Process

Remove the installation media and boot into Fedora 24.

Select Fedora 24 Kernel
Select Fedora 24 Kernel

Wait for the login interface below to appear, then provide your password and click on “Sign In”.

Fedora 24 Login Screen
Fedora 24 Login Screen

That is it, you now have the latest edition of Fedora 24 Linux running on your machine, hope everything went on smoothly, for any questions or additional information, drop a comment in the comment section below.

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  1. Hi Ravi….

    Thanks for putting this together for everyone. You did a nice job!

    I have an issue with my fedora 24 right now and can’t seem to find anyone to help with it.

    I am trying to download a program called “zoom“. It’s like skype, but it’s for video conferencing, teaching, etc and has paid versions. The software is free to download and when I used Mint 18.? Silvia, I had no problems at all. I would however, prefer to use Fedora, but the download will not finish. I use their site to get the installer, then fedora’s software center opens and shows the software ready to install. I click install and ….it stalls. :(

    I used the command line (or I tried to use it) but with these results…

    [root@localhost computer]# rpm --import package-signing-key.pub
error: package-signing-key.pub: import read failed(2).
[root@localhost computer]# dnf install zoom_x86_64.rpm
BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x26: 1343/3067692992
BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x28: 1343/3067692992
Last metadata expiration check: 0:33:43 ago on Wed Mar 14 11:39:31 2018.
Can not load RPM file: zoom_x86_64.rpm.

The "zoom_x86_64.rpm" is the file that downloads directly from zoom.us.

    Any idea what might be my issue?

    Thanks again for your help with fedora installation!
    Jay

    Reply

    • @Jay,

      Installing rpms from other third party sources will conflict with other system critical programs and cause all kinds of problems. Try to remove yum cache and rebuild RPM database as shown, hope it will fix all your problems.

      $ yum clean
$ rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
$ rpm --rebuilddb
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  2. I have a challenge dual booting my Windows 10 laptop with Fedora 24. While creating partitions, i get this error message, local variable ‘e’ referenced before assignment. I don’t know what is the cause of this error message or how to resolve it. I really need to get Fedora installed on my PC. I will really appreciate all of your assistance.

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  3. Hi, I have an old P4 system with 1.8GHz and 40GB hard disk and 1.5 GB RAM. Already have Win XP installed. Would like to install feora 24 KDE(Spin) workstation 32 bit edition. Can you guide me on the disk partitions required. Want to keep Win XP and create dual boot system

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