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/alt/releases/18/

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

• 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

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

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

Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai

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

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

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: Make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs_to_4_GB_USB's using the dd command

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

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

• 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
• 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 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

• updated Jan 10 2013

(mate 1.5.5 using updates testing repo running in VirtualBox on f18 gnome3-Desktop )

• Installed in gnome3 root terminal with

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop --enablerepo=updates-testing

Click on link ^ for terminal output of update

Note use of CAPS in command

• Netinstall installs mate 1.5.4 (Updates-testing is not used)
• 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

• Available in Fedora netinstall only- DVD does not contain mate.
• Download Beta RC4: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-RC4/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso

Declared Gold for release 01/10/2013 will be released 01/15/2013

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-RC2/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso

mate-desktop Wiki

• http://wiki.mate-desktop.org
• http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/building

F18 netinstall

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-RC4/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 install @cinnamon

• Or:

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop

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.

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

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

• Still -work in progress May change

Backup first

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

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

Detailed information

Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems

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

Advanced Topics

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

• Build a live Remix CD/DVD.iso
• Tutorial:Build your own remix

Punji

• Build boot.iso and DVD.iso's

Koji

• Build rpms