Fedora 43 breaks my books

Well, it really only breaks the some of the experiments the 2nd Edition of my “Using and Administering Linux“ series. This includes all three volumes of that series.

The problem is that, except for Fedora 43 Server, Fedora 43 only installs the BtrFS filesystem and provides no options for others such as the Logical Volume Management (LVM) and EXT4 configurations I specify in the books.

The solution

I’m currently working with my editors at Apress to determine how best to handle this problem for the long term.

For now, I suggest that, rather than using Fedora 43, you install Fedora 42 on the VMs you create for the experiments in the course and work with that. Be sure to use the LVM and EXT4 filesystem combination specified in the partitioning instructions of Chapter 5. This should work perfectly for the foreseeable future.

Upgrade to Fedora 43 (Optional)

The good thing about upgrades, such as from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43, is that they don’t change the filesystem structure. Therefore, you can upgrade your VM from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43 and all of the experiments should work properly. You can read about performing version upgrades here.

Downloading Fedora 42 Xfce

Fedora 42 is no longer directly downloadable from the Fedora downloads website. But you can download the Fedora 42 Xfce ISO image needed for this course from Both.org, or from the Fedora mirror service.

I hope this solution works for you.