Fedora install for my own purposes

At time of writing, Fedora 27 is current stable version

Download and install Fedora

• Download Fedora Image Writer and burn a live image to a USB drive and install to the actual drive

Configure Fedora

Disable SELinux

Use the /usr/sbin/getenforce or /usr/sbin/sestatus commands to check the status of SELinux

$ /usr/sbin/getenforce
Enforcing

or

$ /usr/sbin/sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
Current mode:                   enforcing
Mode from config file:          enforcing
Policy version:                 23
Policy from config file:        targeted

Change SELINUX to disabled in /etc/selinux/config

sudo vi /etc/selinux/config
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
#       enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
#       permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
#       disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=enforcing
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
#       targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
#       mls - Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

sudo reboot

Assign static IP address

Choose the network link to change

ifconfig -a

Easiest method is to use the command line!

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<linkname>

Before...

After...

TYPE=Ethernet
PROXY_METHOD=none
BROWSER_ONLY=no
#BOOTPROTO=dhcp
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.1.15
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
DNS1=192.168.1.112
DNS2=8.8.8.8
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6_ADDR_GEN_MODE=stable-privacy
NAME=enp0s25
UUID=a8a3bec5-64b0-34de-9e27-9c732082c94b
ONBOOT=yes
AUTOCONNECT_PRIORITY=-999
DEVICE=enp0s25
ZONE=FedoraWorkstation

Install Thunderbird

sudo dnf thunderbird