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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:31:37 -0600
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These are now in the 6rolling iso directories

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/

Troy

Urs Beyerle wrote:
> 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


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