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= Anaconda
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[caption="Entering Anaconda, Montana. A city probably named after this installation program. David Cantrell took this picture in 2011. His grey VW Jetta is parked in the background."]
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image::DSC_3217.JPG[Anaconda,400]
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Anaconda is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and xref:anaconda/anaconda_distros.adoc[some other distributions].
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During installation, a target computer's hardware is identified and configured, and the appropriate file systems for the system's architecture are created.
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Finally, Anaconda allows the user to install the operating system software on the target computer.
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Anaconda can also upgrade existing installations of earlier versions of the same distribution.
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After the installation is complete, you can reboot into your installed system and continue doing customization using https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/InitialSetup[initial setup].
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Anaconda is a fairly sophisticated installer.
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It supports installation from local and remote sources such as CDs and DVDs, images stored on a hard drive, NFS, HTTP, and FTP.
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Installation can be scripted with http://pykickstart.readthedocs.io/en/latest/[kickstart] to provide a fully unattended installation that can be duplicated on scores of machines.
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It can also be run over VNC on headless machines.
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A variety of advanced storage devices including LVM, RAID, iSCSI, and multipath are supported from the partitioning program.
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Anaconda provides advanced debugging features such as remote logging, access to the python interactive debugger, and remote saving of exception dumps.
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If you are an advanced user of Anaconda, you should check out https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot-options.html[our reference to Anaconda command line options], https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kickstart.html[our kickstart file format documentation] and xref:anaconda/anaconda_logging.adoc[our reference to logging capabilities of Anaconda].
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