Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow” – What happened here?

[EDIT: Further examination revealed that a majority of the problems experienced were related to the glibc + kernel included with Fedora 18 and the updated glibc+kernel for Fedora 17.  The result was the same in both situations: unstable VIA and IVTV drivers.]   Fedora 18 has the release name “Spherical Cow”.  It should probably be

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Cobbler, Kickstarts, and the Fedora tree

Having built a fully functional PXE B&B (“boot-and-build”) system with Cobbler + Puppet, it was surprising to learn that Fedora 16 just would not load from the same old process.  After much frustration and digging, it appears that from Fedora 15 to Fedora 16, an additional boot-time kernel argument became required in order to be

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