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<li>Compare the installation time to the amount of time it took to do this type of installation. Record this information in the '''table contained in Investigation 4'''.</li>
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{{Admon/tip|Adding Repositories|Repositories are online resources that contain operating system programs, application programs, was well as updates (patches). Although you have the basic repositories for Fedora19, you can add other repositories as well for "cutting-edge" programs or special applications that may not be available via the regular repositories.|
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<li>Turn the screen lock feature of in your fedora2 VM by selecting '''Activities''', typing '''settings''', and clicking the system settings icon. Click the Privacy icon, and switch '''lock screen''' from '''ON''' to '''OFF'''. After changing the settings, close the system settings window.</li>
<li>To add the RPM FUSION repository issue the following command (you can copy and paste to a shell in your fedora2 VM):<br />su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'</li>
<li>You will be required to enter your root password.</li>
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{{Admon/note|Network / Service Considerations|Please perform the tasks below in order allow these Fedora systems to be able to communicate with each other. '''Failure to properly perform these operations can cause problems in future labs'''.|
# What was different with your fedora2 install (upon completion) that was different than your fedora1 install? What was similar?
# Record this information in the '''table contained in Investigation 4'''.
 
 
{{Admon/tip|Adding Repositories|Repositories are online resources that contain operating system programs, application programs, was well as updates (patches). Although you have the basic repositories for Fedora19, you can add other repositories as well for "cutting-edge" programs or special applications that may not be available via the regular repositories.|
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<li>Turn the screen lock feature of in your fedora2 VM by selecting '''Activities''', typing '''settings''', and clicking the system settings icon. Click the Privacy icon, and switch '''lock screen''' from '''ON''' to '''OFF'''. After changing the settings, close the system settings window.</li>
<li>To add the RPM FUSION repository issue the following command (you can copy and paste to a shell in your fedora2 VM):<br />su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'</li>
<li>You will be required to enter your root password.</li>
 
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<li>Proceed to Investigation </li>
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'''Answer the Investigation 2 observations / questions in your lab log book.'''
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