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
- Release annoncement: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_release_announcement
- Installation Guide:http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Installation_Guide/index.html
- anaconda NuUI installer is NEW and has bugs:
- 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 Fedora 18 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
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
Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai
Fedora 18 SoaS.iso's
See Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai.
Tutorial: How to install in VirtualBox
Tutorial: Make a SoaS.img file for repeated installs
- Note: The following are .img files are provided to workaround the bug that SoaS 8 fails to run a non-Live install to a hard disk or USB drive.
Prebuilt sugar.img files to dd write to a USB drive
- Look at the tutorial above to see how to write to a USB drive.
- 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
- Note USB drives used with these files seem to require Fedora "liveusb-creator --reset-mbr" to be run on them to make them boot-able again for other uses.
Sugar Desktop Environment Fedora 18 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
- Fedora 18 Feature List
- Fedora 18 Preliminary Notes:
- NewInstallerUI, Anaconda Rework for Fedora 18, Secure Boot, Draft version info
Customize with kickstart files
- Fedora 18 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
- http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/sn-automating-installation.html
- Anaconda Boot Options: http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html
sample /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
- After an install of Fedora 18 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 Fedora 18 Live desktop install SAMPLE DO NOT USE
- 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
Cinnamon desktop
Upgrade Fedora 17 to Fedora 18
- updated 01/08/2013
- The simplest way to get Fedora 18
- back up /home and /etc and do a fresh install.
- 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
Fedora on an OLPC XO
A preliminary look at Fedora 19 Anaconda
- Annotated screen-shots 01/31/2013
- Fedora-19-Nightly-20130129.10-x86_64-Live-xfce.iso
- Live Install in VirtualBox
Install of sugar-desktop in Fedora_anaconda_19.6
- Annotated screen-shots 02/14/2013
- anaconda-19.6-boot.iso
- Install of sugar-desktop in VirtualBox 4.2.6
Advanced Topics
Build Your Own Remix with Fedora
- Build a live Remix CD/DVD.iso with livecd-tools and spin-kickstart files.
- Tutorial: Build Your Own Remix with Fedora
Kernel_modules
- Kernel_modules are pieces of code that can be loaded and unloaded into the kernel upon demand. They extend the functionality of the kernel without the need to reboot the system.
Live media Creator
- livemedia-creator is now included in Lorax as of release 17.1 and can be used to create live iso's using modified spin kickstarts.
- Fedora 17 LiveCD's will continue to use livecd-creator.
- Fedora 18 will use livemedia-creator to create LiveCDs. This will require changing how koji is used for the LiveCD builds.
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.
linux-foundation-secure-boot-system
- http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/wp-uploads/2013/PreLoader.efi
- http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/wp-uploads/2013/HashTool.efi
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
GPT Disks Reference
Pulseaudio fixes and workarounds
Punji
- Build boot.iso and DVD.iso's
Koji
- Build rpms