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 screen lets you set the date and time, or to synchronize the date and time over the network.
The Raspberry Pi does not have a battery-powered clock, so it loses track of the time when the power is turned off. Pidora has been set up so that when the system boots, the clock is not set earlier than it was when Pidora was last running.
If your Pi will usually be connected to the Internet, enable the network time synchronization option.
Time Zone
Select the closest large city in your timezone, either by clicking on the map or by selecting from the list.
Filesystem Settings
This screen contains two settings:
1. "Resize root filesystem?" -- If checked, this option will cause the Pidora image to be expanded so that you can take advantage of all of the space on your SD card (recommended).
2. Swap space - Select a size for your swap space. The default of 512MB is suitable for most purposes.
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.
