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<li value="9">Login to the VM and click: '''Applications'''>'''System Tools'''>'''Install to Hard Drive'''. The installation program, similar to the one used when installing Fedora in Lab 1, will appear. You will get a warning at one point during the installation process that the disk "May contain data" or "may need to be re-initialized" -- this is simply a warning that the virtual disk is completely blank, and it is safe to proceed with the installation.</li>
</ol> {{Admon/note|Virtual Machine Screen Size|You not be able to see the entire screen at the same time. It is recommended to maximize the screen, and if necessary, use the scrollbars.}}<ol> <livalue="10">During the installation process, when prompted for a storage device, first select '''Specialized Storage Devices''', and then select the '''Virtio Block Device''' option.</li>
<li>When prompted for the hostname, enter '''fedora1''', and when prompted for the timezone, select '''Toronto - Eastern Time Ontario''', and when asked about storage, select '''Use All Space'''. '''Use the default values for all other fields.''' Notice that the installer does not ask you what software should be installed; compare the installation time to the amount of time it took to do your Lab 2 installation.</li>
<li>When the installation is complete, click on the logout '''reboot''' button at the top bottom right-hand corner of the screen and select '''Power Off'''.</li></ol> {{Admon/note|Error Message|If you experience an error message, exit the VM window, close the Virtual Machine Manager program, reboot your host (main) computer, login and restart the Virtual Machine Manager program. Failure to follow this instructions can lead students to think that the virtual machine was not installed (when it was indeed installed).}} <ol>
<li>Start the VM from its disk image by selecting Virtual Machine>Run from the virtual machine menu. You will get the ''Firstboot'' configuration questions during the boot process (asking you to create a user, set the date and time, and optionally send the hardware profile to the Fedora Project). Create a user with the same name as your Matrix account.</li>
<li>Login using the new user account.</li>