Fedora 23 Workstation Installation Steps with Screenshots

Good News for Fedora Users that 「Fedora 23」 has been released recently. Fedora 23 released in three different editions :

• Fedora Workstation – Used at Desktop Level
• Fedora Server – Used for Server Installation and Management
• Fedora Cloud – Fedora Cloud images can be used in OpenStack & EC2 and can be directly launched.

In this article we will discuss Fedora 23 Workstation Installation steps with Screenshots. Below are few new features that are introduced in this release.

• New Kernel 4.2
• Gnome 3.18
• Improved Wayland – It is a GUI Server that will replace X org in Fedora 24.
• New Calender & To Do application
• LibreOffice 5
• Firmware Updates – Firmware update service is included in Software application , which will notify us when there is new firmware update is available for your hardware.

Step:1 Download the Fedora 23 Workstation ISO file.

Download ISO file as per your system architecture( 32-bit & 64-bit) from Fedora Official site 「https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/」

Burn the downloaded ISO file into DVD or in USB flash drive and boot your system with bootable DVD or USB.

Step:2 Fedora 23 Installation Screen.

Select 「Start Fedora Live」 and press Enter.

Step:3 Select 「Install to Hard Drive」 option

Step:4 Select the Language that will be used during installation

Click on Continue…

Step:5 When we click on Continue then the following screen appear.

Define the Keyboard Layout , Date & time zone , Network & hostname and Partition scheme by selecting the respective options. In my case i will be using customize partition scheme.

As i have around 40 GB Hard disk and going to create following partitions on it.

• /boot – 500 MB ( ext4 File System)
• /var – 12 GB ( ext4 File System)
• /home – 15 GB ( ext4 File System)
• / – 10 GB ( ext4 File System)
• swap – Double of Your RAM

Click on 「Installation Destination」 then below screen will appear , select 「i will configure Partitioning」 and then Click on 「Done」

Click on ‘+’ option & Create /boot partition.

Click on Add mount point.

Create /var partition

Click on Add mount point.

Similarly Create other two partitions as well with their respective size.( /home & / ).

Create Swap Partition.

Click on Add mount point

Now Click on Done when your done with Partitioning.

Select 「Accept Changes」

Click on 「Begin Installation」

Step:6 Define Root password and Create a New User

Select Root Password Option and set the root password.

Click on Done.

Select User Creation, Create a new user and set its password.

Click on Done.

As you we can see now installation is in Progress.

Step:7 Reboot the Machine Once the installation is Completed.

Step:8 Login Screen After Installation

Use the user name (linuxtechi) and its credentials that we have set during the installation.

Step:9 Select the Language for your Desktop ( Gnome)

click on Next.

Step:10 Select the Keyboard Layout for your Gnome Desktop

Click on Next

click on Next

Step: 11 Connect Your Online Accounts or skip this step.

Click on Start Using Fedora

Step:12 Gnome Desktop Screen After login.

Fedora 23 Workstation installation is completed now.