Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" Officially Released

[bwat47]

But what about those of us NOT on fedora already?
It's easy to make a bootable USB of fedora while on... fedora.
But what if I'm ubuntu, arch, mac, windows? Unetbootin has NEVER worked for me.

Its very easy to make a fedora liveusb on windows, fedora offers their own usb creator for windows... it works perfectly.

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

[AdamW]

But what about those of us NOT on fedora already?
It's easy to make a bootable USB of fedora while on... fedora.
But what if I'm ubuntu, arch, mac, windows? Unetbootin has NEVER worked for me.

A straightforward dd or equivalent (there are Windows tools for direct copying, I think one is called rawrite) works fine. The Fedora images are all isohybridized. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_t...d_use_Live_USB

[Hamish Wilson]

Besides, it was alwasys best to use the Install DVD or the Network Install CD image anyway when it comes to doing a fresh install:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#formats

Also, the LXDE and Xfce spins of Fedora still look to be able to be burned onto a regular CD-ROM:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

[tancrackers]

This typically works for me on Windows:
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/download

Thank you very much!

[Pallidus]

fedora turned into crapware


never


NEVER

had I a distro that failed to boot after install




Windows 7 laptop with plenty of unpartioned space


boot into live cd, install, select boot drive, bootlader yes, standard partition, "dont worry fedora can automatically fuck shit up for you"

kmod0/4242 error during install


boot to grub

pick fedora




blank screen


seriously?


some stupid error that sda7 ext4 fs couldn-t mount incompabilities or some shit



THANKS FEDORA SUCKS ASS NOW

[arokh]

You couldn't boot it so Fedora is shit. Good review.

[Pallidus]

there's no 'I couldn't boot it' here

everything was as vanilla as possible


and it doesn't even recognize the ext4 partitions it automatically made without ANY input from me.


yes I would say that's a big pile of shit

[twchambers]

Hmm... Can't decide whether to go through the hassle of an upgrade or just to wait for 19 in just a couple of months time!

[Pallidus]

Ok, I need help:


I installed fedora 18 on an unpartioned section of my hard drive and it simply won't boot saying 'ext4 fs incompabilities' and it simply shows the fedora logo then a permanent black screen... during install it gave a ' kmod 04 something' error.


Now the f+++ed up thing is that after installing fedora 18 I lost the ability to load a live session into ram, both ubuntu toram or fedora live_session fail to load the system into ram (this was working fine before the install) and worse still is that I lost sound in windows 7 and ubuntu....


I can't figure out what's going on, does fedora 18 tries to flash the soundcard firmware? why would it stop functioning in other OS's???

How can I delete the Grub live bootloader that I installed with fedora 18 (I already deleted the partitions)


If I flash my BIOS again and format my hard drive will everything return to normal?


God damn you fedora

[chrisr]

Some fonts, e.g. the ones rendering this message for me on Phoronix, look a lot poorer with Fedora 18 - like they were written with a biro that is starting to run out of ink.