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Fedora 18

updated Dec 12 2012
FOR TESTING ONLY

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

There has been a significant delay in releasing Beta as bugs have been fixed.

Latest Downloads

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

Links below are FOR TESTING ONLY

f18-Beta-TC1

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-TC1/

f18 smoke6: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/20121212_f18-smoke6/ anaconda 18.37-2

Anaconda Defaults to LVM format from 18.23

Sugar on a Stick f18 ʻŌhelo ʻai

[1]

Working f18-Nightly-SoaS.iso's

NEW--Satellit 11:40, 11 December 2012 (EST)

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

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

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

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

Sugar

Build       fedora 18 release 18 (Spherical Cow)
sugar       0.97.8
firmware    V1.05

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

Jabber.sugarlabs.org does not see any avitars in f1 Neighbourhood view

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

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/

F18 TC6 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

Still very problematic-work in progress

Backup first

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