Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

[drago01]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't
>>> practical.
>>
>> Well not practical maybe ... impossible no.
>> In fact making an isolated image using F17 components and installer to
>> use it to install F18 should work. SB would be an issue though because
>> the old anaconda does not know anything about it,
>
> I'm fairly sure the new anaconda doesn't know about Secure Boot either.
> There's really no reason it would have to.  All of that is handled by
> shim, grub2, and the kernel.

I'd assume it has to know when to install shim and when not? (No idea
have not cheched the code).