This beat is located here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Installer To learn how to install Fedora, refer to http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/. If you encounter a problem or have a question during installation that is not covered in these release notes, refer to http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQand http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common. Anacondais the name of the Fedora installer. This section outlines issues related to Anacondaand installing Fedora 11.

We recommend that you use the graphical installer to install Fedora on your computer wherever possible. If you are installing Fedora on a system that lacks a graphical display, consider performing the installation over a VNC connection (see "Chapter 12. Installing Through VNC" in the Fedora 11 Installation Guide). If your system has a graphical display, but graphical installation fails, try booting with the xdriver=vesaoption (see "Chapter 9. Boot Options" in the Fedora 11 Installation Guide) or with the Install system with basic video driveroption when booting from the Fedora 11 Distro DVD. The text-mode installation option in Fedora 11 is significantly more streamlined than it was in earlier versions. Text-mode installation now omits the more complicated steps that were previously part of the process, and provides you with an uncluttered and straightforward experience. These steps are now automated in text mode: Package selection Anacondanow automatically selects packages only from the base and core groups. These packages are sufficient to ensure that the system is operational at the end of the installation process, ready to install updates and new packages. Advanced partitioning Anacondastill presents you with the initial screen from previous versions that allows you to specify where Anacondashould install Fedora on your system. You can choose to use a whole drive, to remove existing Linux partitions, or to use the free space on the drive. However, anacondanow automatically sets the layout of the partitions and does not ask you to add or delete partitions or file systems from this basic layout. If you require a customized layout at installation time, you should perform a graphical installation over a VNC connection or a kickstart installation. More advanced options yet, such as LVM, encrypted filesystems, and resizable filesystems are still only available only in graphical mode and kickstart. Bootloader configuration Anacondanow performs bootloader configuration automatically.

Text-mode installations using kickstart are carried out in the same way that they were in previous versions. However, because package selection, advanced partitioning, and bootloader configuration are now automated in text mode, Anacondacannot prompt you for information that it requires during these steps. You must therefore ensure that the kickstart file includes the packaging, partitioning, and bootloader configurations. If any of this information is missing, Anacondawill exit with an error message.

Upgrading from Fedora 9 directly to Fedora 11 using yumis not possible, you must upgrade to Fedora 10 first, then upgrade to Fedora 11. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaqfor more information. You can also use preupgradeto upgrade directly to Fedora 11 using Anaconda, minimizing the system downtime by downloading the packages in advance. Some modified configuration files will be replaced by their original versions during the upgrade. Your modified versions of these configuration files will be saved as *.rpmsavefiles in that case.

The boot menu for the Fedora Distro DVD includes a new option: Install system with basic video driver. This option boots the system with the generic vesa driver (using the xdriver=vesaboot option) and allows you to use Fedora's graphical installation mode even when anacondacannot load the correct driver for your video card.

The Fedora installation CDs and DVD provide you with an image file, boot.isothat you can burn to a CD and use to boot a system and start the installation process. Typically, you would do this prior to installing Fedora from a local hard drive or from a location on a network. You can now use the CD produced from the boot.isoimage to start installation on a system that uses Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). CDs produced from older versions of boot.isoonly worked with systems that used Basic Input Output System (BIOS).