Hi,

Mini-LiveCD, LiveCD and LiveDVD based on SL6 Beta 1 are ready for
testing. They are available for 32 and 64 bit.


DOWNLOAD

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/6beta/i386/
http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/6beta/x86_64/

The LiveCD comes with gnome, the Mini-LiveCD comes with icewm and the
LiveDVD with gnome, kde and icewm whereas gnome is the default.


NOTES

For SL6 the way how the LiveCD is built has completely changed. It is
now based on the Fedora livecd-tools. Some features which you might know
from SL4/SL5 LiveCD are not or not yet included.
If you install the LiveCD to hard drive, the installation of the live
image is now done by anaconda similar to the normal SL6 installation.
You can install the LiveCD on an USB stick with persistent changes using
liveusb-creator included in SL6.


KNOWN ISSUES

* Install to hard drive crashes, if a disk is mounted. Per default
  no hard drive are mounted.
* Boot parameter to set the keyboard layout (kb) does not work
* Reboot after install to hard drive may not work
* Mini-LiveCD is not really yet minimal in size
* Support for diskless client is very limited. You need twice as
  much RAM as the size of the LiveCD
* Documentation is missing
* No Mini-LiveCD for x86_64. Does anybody would like to have it?


BOOT PARAMETERS (working)

noswap: do not search for SWAP partition
automount: to enable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives
user=username: user name of local user, default is sluser
cell=your.cell: to set an AFS cell
xdriver=drivername: to use a specific driver for the Xserver
cups=servername: set the CUPS server
serviceon=s1[:s2:..]: to enable the service(s) s1,s2,...
serviceoff=s1[:s2:..]: to disable the service(s) s1,s2,...
hostname=: to set the hostname


BOOT PARAMETERS (planned but not yet working)

kb=: to set a keyboard layout
nox: do not start the X server
kde: use kde as default desktop
noautologin: disable auto login
afs: to start AFS during boot up
...


Cheers,

    Urs