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Installing Fedora 19 on an Acer S7 191-6400
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This document describes installing Fedora 19 Linux on an Acer S7-191-6400 ultrabook.

This is a lightweight laptop with an 11.6" display with 1920x1080 CineCrystal display, 4GB memory and two 64GB SSDs striped.

The laptop also uses UEFI boot rather than traditional BIOS.

Preparation

The S7 comes with Windows 8 pre-loaded. Be sure to create restore media on an 8gb+ USB stick.

You must enable boot media selection in BIOS (EFI). Power on and hold the FN-F2 keys at the Acer splash screen. Enable the FN-F12 boot selection.

Insert a clean USB stick and boot, selecting the recovery partition. Use the recovery tool to create recovery media. Be sure to test that the recovery media boots before proceeding. Store the recovery media in a safe and memorable location.

The boot selection menu probe is VERY short. If you need to use a DVD player it should have external power so that it will respond to query during the short window.

partitioning

I replace the OS every 6 months with the release of a new Fedora. I don’t want to lose my working data so I create two OS partitions, 20GB apiece and alternate them. My work goes into a separate partition mounted on /home. The EFI boot requires an additional EFI partition mounted on /boot/efi. I don’t use swap on an SSD.

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