Fedora 18

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Fedora 18

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  • Released and updated Jan 15 2013
  • Updated Jan 15 2013

Get Fedora 18

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/
  • Anaconda Defaults to LVM format from 18.23
This can be changed in custom- (See tutorial below)

Tutorial:How to use newUI Anaconda in F18

Details on how to use the new installer - with screenshots

Fedora 18 Documentation

http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/1/fedora-18-features-updated-user-interfaces-and-desktop-environments
  • A major feature of f18 is the development of newUI a new anaconda.
how-to-add-startup-programs-in-gnome-3

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 XXXXX

Logo SoaS 01.pngSugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai

ʻŌhelo ʻai .jpg

f18-SoaS.iso's

Updated 01/22/2013

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC3/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-18-TC3-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
DANGER bugs
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 install to Hard disk but install in VirtualBox (<==click link to virtual appliance.)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893892
Tutorial: How to install in Virtualbox
Tutorial: Make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs_to_4_GB_USB's using the dd command
NOTE the following are .img files to workarround fact that soas-v8 does not install to HD or USB
USB flash drive.jpg Prebuilt sugar.img files to dd write to a USB
  • Look at the tutorial above to see how to write to USB
firstboot has not been run
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img 3.7G
netinstall of sugar-desktop to / ext4 (real install)
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8_litd.img 1.9G
liveiso to disk img of SoaS-8-live with persistence
VirtualBox.png Sugar_Desktop_Environment_f18_netinstall_i386 VirtualBox Appliance

Install from Soas live CD/dd USB

NOTE the following method does not seem to always work for SoaS_live spins (Installs to VirtualBox do work).
In terminal application:
su
liveinst

Install Sugar 0.98.2 from another Desktop

  • Terminal:
yum groupinstall sugar-desktop
yum install sugar-emulator
  • Start Sugar from Education/Sugar

More information

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

Customize with kickstart files

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.pngMATE Desktop

  • updated Jan 30 2013

Gnome3 with mate running in VB.png

(mate 1.5.5 running in VirtualBox on f18 gnome3-Desktop )
  • Installed in gnome3 root terminal with
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop
Click on link ^ for terminal output of update
Note use of CAPS in command
Declared Gold for release 01/10/2013 will be released 01/15/2013
Nice Gnome2 alternate 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://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-18-i386-netinst.iso
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso

Mate-live-CD

  • Download
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Image-FedoraMateCompiz.iso Mate 1.5.5 Livecd NEW 01/30/2012'(by dan408)
Submitted to fedora spins sig

mate-desktop Wiki

F18 netinstall

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso
chose MATE-desktop or cinnamon-desktop
  • Add to Existing Gnome or KDE Install:
root terminal
yum install @mate-desktop
yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

Cinnamon Desktop

Cinnamon.png

Select Cinnamon
yum install @cinnamon

Sugar in Cinnamon

yum groupinstall sugar-desktop
yum install sugar-emulator

Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18

  • updated 01/08/2013
The simplest way to get f18
back up /home and /etc and do a fresh install.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18
  • Still -work in progress May change
Backup first

fedup

Latest:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tflink/FedUp_Draft
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
http://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/fedup-a-little-background/
url/path that fedup needs
--instrepo? http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/18/<arch>/os/
well, should be releases/etc now right
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/i386/os/
(well, <arch> for i386, but you get the idea)
Updated 01/15/2013

yum

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedora_18

systemd/dbus

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/dbus
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html
Detailed information

Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2#Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems

GPT Disks Reference

Pulseaudio fixes and workarounds

A preliminary look at f19 Anaconda

Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-brick-Samsung-laptops

  • Read this first before trying to run linux
The Ubuntu bug report includes posts from users reporting that the problem also affects
300E5C, NP700Z5C, NP700Z7C and NP900X4C series laptops

Advanced Topics

Build a live Remix CD/DVD.iso - Livecd-tools and spin-kickstart files

sugar-build

Daniel Narvaez has made a number of improvements to sugar-build,
which has by-and-large replaced sugar-jhbuild as the preferred development environment for Fedora and Ubuntu.

Punji

  • Build boot.iso and DVD.iso's

Koji

  • Build rpms

Using fedora on an olpc XO

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