Hi,

The latest SL6 beta3 LiveCDs, LiveDVDs and LiveMiniCD are ready for testing

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


Changes compared to beta1:

- rebuild against SL6 beta3
- add LiveMiniCD for 64-bit
- make LiveMiniCD smaller
- add icewm to LiveCD
- customize icewm
- fix bug with system-config-firewall
- add boot parameter pw= to define a password at boot prompt
- add boot parameter noautologin to disable auto login
- several smaller bug fixes



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 / MISSING

* 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
* Support for diskless client is very limited. You need twice as
  much RAM as the size of the LiveCD (NOT PLANNED for SL60 release)
* Documentation is missing


BOOT PARAMETERS (working)

kb=: set password
noautologin: disable auto login
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)

nox: do not start the X server
kde: use kde as default desktop
afs: to start AFS during boot up



Cheers,

    Urs