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Fedora 18

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updated Dec 18 2012
FOR TESTING ONLY (to be released on 08 January 2013)

f-18 Documentation

DO NOT use to install on any important Computer Systems.

anaconda NuUI installer is NEW and has bugs:

http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current

A major feature of f18 is the development of newUI a new anaconda.

Tutorial:How to use newUI Anaconda in F18

Details on how to use the new installer - with screenshots

How to install from the repo on the DVD

[Bug 888307]--Satellit 12:35, 18 December 2012 (EST)

--- Comment #1 from Andre Robatino <robatino@fedoraproject.org> ---
I've found (testing on F17) that if I create a local.repo file in
/etc/yum.repos.d/ with the contents

[local]
name=Local
baseurl=file:///dev/sr0/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0

I  can then use the DVD as a local repo (disabling all other repos to avoid
downloading updated packages) with a command such as

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=local install XXXXXX

I never use PackageKit so don't know if it can be made to work with that.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865922#c15

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/packagekit/plain/docs/media-repo.txt

Tested and did not seem to work in f18 --Satellit 10:36, 18 December 2012 (EST)

Basically you insert the DVD with PackageKit open and it automatically mounts
the disk, grabs the media repo off the disk, and adds it to the list of
sources. This was added to Fedora in *2009*. If you find the support no longer
working, please file a bug under the PackageKit package.
*Tested and did not seem to work in f18 --Satellit 10:36, 18 December 2012 (EST)

Latest Downloads

f18 Prerelease Beta: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

Links below are FOR TESTING ONLY
Updated Dec/22/2012

f18-Beta-TC3

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC3/

f18 smoke12

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/20121221_f18-smoke12/ anaconda 18.37-8

Changes: has xx% progress when checking and removed "shrink" choice in custom.

Anaconda Defaults to LVM format from 18.23

This can be changed in custom- (See tutorial below)

Tutorial: How to use new Anaconda Installer in f18

Sugar on a Stick f18 ʻŌhelo ʻai

[1]

Working f18-Nightly-SoaS.iso's

Updated 12/19/2012

These SoaS-Live's work

32-bit:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC1/Live/i386/Fedora-18-TC1-i686-Live-SoaS.iso: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5441/4745441/Fedora-18-Nightly-20121130.16-i686-Live-soas.iso; http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC3/Spins/i386/Fedora-18-TC3-i686-Live-SoaS.iso Note: CD boots to Soas but does not install

64-bit:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC1/Live/x86_64/Fedora-18-TC1-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso: http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5442/4745442/Fedora-18-Nightly-20121130.16-x86_64-Live-soas.iso; http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC3/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-18-TC3-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso Note: CD boots to Soas but does not install

Koji-Latest Nightlys: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?owner=&state=all&view=flat&method=createLiveCD&order=-id

DANGER (bug)

Loses jabber connection if change name or color in sugar's MySettings/AboutMe after you set name and color on first run

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4289

Note the SoaS-Live's do not work in TC2 and some Nightly Compose

Install from Soas live CD/dd USB

In terminal application:

su
liveinst

Install Sugar 97.8

Terminal:

yum groupinstall sugar-desktop
yum install sugar-emulator

Start Sugar from Education/Sugar

More information

Fedora 18 Feature List
Fedora 18 Preliminary Notes:

NewInstallerUI, Anaconda Rework for Fedora 18, Secure Boot, Draft version info

Customize with kickstart files

f18 anaconda will now promote a kickstart file for customization
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Chapter_3._Package_Selection
Anaconda Boot Options: http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html

sample /root/anaconda-ks.cfg

After an install of f18 look for this file.

Put it in a USB stick and anaconda will use it to repeat install.

This file can be modified and still will work

sample .ks for f18 Live desktop install

Autogenerated by anaconda

Can be used for multiple automatic installs

#version=DEVEL
# System authorization information
auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
# Network information
network  --bootproto=dhcp --hostname=localhost.localdomain
# Run the Setup Agent on first boot
firstboot --enable
ignoredisk --only-use=sda
# Keyboard layouts
keyboard 'us'# System language
lang en.UTF-8
# Installation logging level
logging --level=info
# Root password
rootpw --iscrypted $6$f/DeD7AZFW91051J$Av3OQOPsY8syofC6ysN63psWjHzH.Pdr7D/s3CTfNuYLm1jLlJ.ZyUzICMjBlXz4i88wm9MfNALVsBXXx1Kl3.
# System services
services --enabled="chronyd"
# System timezone
timezone America/Los_Angeles
# System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda
autopart --type=plain
# Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda

%packages
authconfig
chrony
e2fsprogs
grub2
system-config-firewall-base

%end

MATE Desktop

Download livecd-MATE-Remix (by dan408): http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/livecd-fedora-livecd-mate-201212231405.iso

Mate 1.5.4 Livecd NEW 12/23/2012

NEW Now available in Fedora in netinstall only- DVD does not install working mate.--Satellit 13:32, 25 November 2012 (EST)

Nice Gnome2 alternate desktop

Features http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MATE-Desktop

Originally developed for Linux Mint

http://linuxfreedom.com/linuxmint/stable/13/linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit.iso

(#mate and #fedora-mate on freenode IRC )

Fedora Download: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-RC1/

mate-desktop Wiki

F18 netinstall

chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop

Add to Existing Gnome or KDE Install:

root terminal

yum install @mate-desktop
yum install @cinnamon

Or:

yum groupinstall mate-desktop

Sugar in Cinnamon

yum groupinstall sugar-desktop
yum install sugar-emulator

Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading NEW 12/18/2012
Still very problematic-work in progress

Backup first

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/post_upgrade_cleanup

GPT Disks Reference

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 *Start Sugar from Education/Sugar
-====Sugar-Activities====
- abacus             39
- browse            142
- calculate          41
- chat               77
- clock              10
- countries          33
- dimensions         45
- etoys             116
- finance             8
- get books          11
- help               15
- image viewer       53
- infoslicer         15
- irc                10
- jukebox            28
- labryinth          14
- log                29
- maze               21
- memorize           43
- moon               14
- paint              43
- physics            10
- pippy              48
- portfolio          26
- read              104
- record             96
- ruler              19
- speak              42
- terminal           39
- turtle art        160
- typing turtle      30
- write              79
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 ====More information====
 * [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList Fedora 18 Feature List]