[PlanetCCRMANews] [PlanetCCRMA] landing on the Fedora 18 planet
Martin Tarenskeen
m.tarenskeen at zonnet.nl
Tue Jan 22 23:58:15 PST 2013
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Jan Depner wrote:
> Before you install Fedora 18 you might want to read this article (not
> necessarily just for KDE users):
>
> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-18-kde.html
>
> I think I'll stick with 17 on my systems. Maybe 19 will be better.
I have installed Fedora 18.
I agree with the above article: the installation software is ugly and
counter intuitive.
I have a Linux-only system, no dual boot. This makes things easier. I
always make a backup of my important data and start with completely fresh
installs for every new Fedora version I install. This should make things
even more easy.
I started with the LXDE live CD. Then I clicked the "install to disk"
icon.
But I had to repeat the installation process three times before I could
boot F18 succesfully. At one moment my system booted twice every time.
After the first inlog, the system started a second inlog screen. And after
I had updated my software, the bootloader refused to show the latest
kernel.
I tried the complete install again. Now my system would not boot at all.
Strange. I probably clicked something wrong somewhere in the totally
confusing installer interface.
I had already tried Fedora 18 beta pre-release on my netbook. This worked
fine.
So I decided to try starting from the Fedora 18 beta version of the LXDE
Live CD iso.
This worked. Finally. And after a long yum update session I now have a
working Fedora 18 system, including RPMfusion and PlanetCCRMA repo stuff.
I am happy with it now, but I would not recommend it to an average user.
I am sure there are a lot of really good things in F18. But the installer
is NOT one them.
--
MT
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