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Re: SL7 LiveMiniCD
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Globe Trotter <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 6 Apr 2015 13:55:42 +0000
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Hi,
      From: Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
 To: Globe Trotter <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask] 
 Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 5:57 AM
 Subject: Re: SL7 LiveMiniCD
   
>  Hi,

>  The SL7 LiveCD is already a minimal system. It's quite hard to get it smaller, therefore no LiveMiniCD is planned.> And please note that SL7 only runs on 64-bit hardware - so maybe not on an "old" laptop.


Thanks! My system is a IBM Thinkpad T61 which is about 8 years old (one of the last with a IBM logo on it). Anyway, I guess it depends on the definition of "old". 

The reason I was asking was because the SL6 LiveMiniCD is much faster than the SL6 LiveCD.

>> Alternatively, how does one make a spin for SL7?

> You can get the livecd-tools here:
http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/RPMS/7x/x86_64/

> And the latest kickstart files here:
https://svn.iac.ethz.ch/pub/livecd/trunk/SL7/livecd-config

> More info can be found here:
http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/build.html

Thank you for this!
  

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