This article will show the simple steps of installing a modern Linux Distribution like Fedora 36 Workstation Edition with Gnome for the user graphical interface. First, it is offered the basic steps for installing the Operating system and then there are some screenshots of the installed system and the look and feel of it. It is coming soon another article showing more screenshots of the installed and working Fedora 36 (Gnome and KDE plasma) – so the user may decide which of them to try first.
This is the simplest set up. One hard disk device in the system is installed, which is detected as sda and the entire disk will be used for the installation of Fedora Workstation 36. All disk information in sda disk device will be permanently deleted by the installation wizard!
The Fedora 32 Workstation comes with
- Xorg X server – 1.20.14 XWayland (22.1.2) is used by default
- GNOME (the GUI) – 42.0
- linux kernel – 5.17.5
Check out our article about what software is included in [coming soon].
There are previous installations howto articles for the older Fedora 31 – Install Fedora Workstation 31 (Gnome GUI) and Install Fedora Workstation 30 (Gnome GUI).
The following ISO is used for the installation process: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/36/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-36-1.5.iso
It is a LIVE image so you can try it before installing. The easiest way is just to download the image and burn it to a DVD disk (or make a bootable USB flash drive) and then follow the installation below:
SCREENSHOT 1) Boot from the UEFI DVD-ROM device.
It is the same with the USB bootable removable drive. Choose the UEFI USB drive and boot the installation live drive.
Keep on reading!