Trying Fedora 18 Spherical Cow

Fedora 18, code named Spherical Cow, was officially released last week. It’s time to create a live usb again to give it a try.

Download the iso image

Fedora 18 Spherical Cow Desktop image (64-bit)

Verify

Just to be safe…

Get the checksum file

wget https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-CHECKSUM

Import the keys

curl https://fedoraproject.org/static/fedora.gpg | gpg --import

Verify

sha256sum -c *-CHECKSUM

Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso: OK
sha256sum: Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso: No such file or directory
Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: WARNING: 20 lines are improperly formatted
sha256sum: WARNING: 1 listed file could not be read

As long as you see OK next to the file you downloaded (see highlighted text), then you are good to go. Ignore the other files like the KDE ones since we didn’t download them.

Create the Live USB

sudo yum install liveusb-creator

Launch liveusb-creator and select the Fedora 18 iso image.

Click Create Live USB

Done! That’s it. Reboot from the Live USB.

Notes: If you prefer other Fedora images, get it here. More details on how to verify here.