CHAPTER 9Installing Linux
Installing Linux has become a fairly easy thing to do—if you are starting with a computer that is up to spec (hard disk, RAM, CPU, and so on) and you don't mind totally erasing your hard drive. With cloud computing and virtualization, installation can be even simpler. It allows you to bypass traditional installation and spin a Linux system up or down within a few minutes by adding metadata to prebuilt images.
This chapter starts off with a simple installation on a physical computer from Live media and progresses to more complex installation topics.
To ease you into the subject of installing Linux, I cover three different ways of installing Linux and step you through each process:
- Installing from Live media A Linux Live media ISO is a single, read-only image that contains everything you need to start a Linux operating system. That image can be burned to a DVD or USB drive and booted from that medium. With the Live media, you can totally ignore your computer's hard disk; in fact, you can run Live media on a system with no hard disk. After you are running the Live Linux system, some Live media ISOs allow you to launch an application that permanently installs ...
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