Pidora 18 Firstboot
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What is firstboot ?
firstboot is the program that runs on the first boot of a Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux system that allows you to configure more things than the installer allows.
Firstboot Modules
Welcome
The first time you boot up Pidora you can expect to see the welcome screen.
License
Followed by License Information
keyboard
The next step is to configure your keyboard language.
Create User
Here you will be able to configure a regular user. There is an option to add this user to the administrators group.
Root User
This screen is used to set the root password. This is the master administration password for your system; choose a password that is easy for you to remember but hard for other people to guess, and which is not based on a dictionary word.
(If you weren't running this Firstboot procedure, the default root password would be "raspberrypi").
Date and Time
This used to decide whether you would like to synchronize the date and time over the network.
Time Zone
Here is where the time zone information is entered.
Filesystem Settings
This setting is used to resize the sd card so that the maximum amount of space that is free on the card can be used. There is also an option to configure how big you would like the swap.
System Settings
These settings are used to set the hostname for the Raspberry Pi, and to select how you would like the system to boot (Graphical/Text) Mode and the video configuration.
