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

• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/551/focus%3D1426515

Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai

Fedora 18 SoaS.iso's

See Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai.

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

• Sugar on a Stick/Virtual machines

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

• updated Jan 30 2013

(mate 1.5.5 running in VirtualBox on Fedora 18 GNOME 3 Desktop)

• Installed in GNOME 3 root terminal with

yum groupinstall MATE-Desktop 

Click on link ^ for terminal output of update

Note use of CAPS in command

• Fedora 18 Netinstall installs mate 1.5.5
• MATE is only Available in Fedora netinstall - DVD does not contain mate.

Nice GNOME 2 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://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

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MATE_%2B_Compiz_Spin?rd=MATE_+_compiz_Spin

mate-desktop Wiki

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

Fedora 18 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

• Available in several Linux OS's

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61

• Download: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso

Select Cinnamon

yum install @cinnamon

• Feature for Fedora 19? https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_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 Fedora 18

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

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html

Detailed information

Updating GRUB 2 configuration on UEFI systems

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tflink/FedUp_Draft#Updating_GRUB_.28UEFI_systems.29

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

A preliminary look at Fedora 19 Anaconda

• Annotated Screenshots 01/31/2013
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAnnounced

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.

sugar-build

• http://sugarlabs.org/~buildbot/docs/build.html

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