Urs,
I have a question. The LiveMiniCD is what exactly? Is it installable? If 
so,
what did you leave out to make it that small? Should you wonder, I'm just

curious as to how functional it is being that tiny.

Best regards,

Bob Good

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:31:43 +0100, Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
 wrote:

>Hi,
>
>The latest SL6 beta3 LiveCDs, LiveDVDs and LiveMiniCD are ready for test
ing
>
>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
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