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Hi,

Scientific Linux 6.2 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released.
They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window manager

LiveMiniCD     icewm
LiveCD         gnome
LiveDVD        gnome, kde, icewm

Software was added from rpmforge, epel and elrepo (see EXTRA SOFTWARE) to include
additional filesystem support (ntfs, reiserfs), secure network connection (openvpn,
vpnc, pptp), filesystem tools (dd_rescue, ddrescue, gparted, gdisk), and better
multimedia support (gstreamer-ffmpeg, flash-plugin)


DOWNLOAD

- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/62/i386
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/62/x86_64
Or
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/i386/iso
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/iso

Alternatively use a public mirror or torrent:
- http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors
- http://www.osst.co.uk/Download/scientific/livecd/?id=28


CHANGES SINCE SL6.1 LIVE

- software based on SL6.2
- build with Fedora livecd-tools 13.4
- kmod-ndiswrapper removed
- system-config-printer added
- gdisk added
- flash-plugin installed per default


NOTES

- For SL6 the way how the LiveCD was built has completely changed. It is
   now based on the Fedora LiveCD Tools.
- If you install the LiveCD to hard drive, the installation of the live
   image is done by anaconda similar to the normal SL6 installation. All
   changes done during LiveCD usage are lost.
- You can install the LiveCD on an USB stick with persistent changes
   using liveusb-creator included in SL6.
- To build your own LiveCD use livecd-tools from SL6.


SOFTWARE

- kernel 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6
- xorg 1.7.7
- icewm 1.2.37
- gnome 2.28
- firefox 3.6.26
- thunderbird 3.1.18
- openoffice.org 3.2.1 (only on LiveDVD)
- kde 4.3.4 (only on LiveDVD)
...


EXTRA SOFTWARE (repo sl-livecd-extra)

- fuse-sshfs
- ntfs-3g
- ntfsprogs
- dd_rescue
- ddrescue
- iperf
- flash-plugin
- gstreamer-ffmpeg
- rxvt-unicode (only MiniCD)
- gparted
- gdisk
- NetworkManager-openvpn
- NetworkManager-vpnc
- NetworkManager-pptp
- vpnc-consoleuser
- kmod-reiserfs
- reiserfs-utils


BOOT PARAMETERS

- live_ram         copy entire Live image to RAM (takes a few minutes)
- noswap           do not use SWAP partition found on hard drive
- pw=any_password  set password
- noautologin      disable auto login
- automount        enable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives
- user=username    username of local user, default is liveuser
- cups=server      the CUPS server
- hostname=name    set the hostname
- check            verify LiveCD before booting
- liveinst         directly start graphical installation to hard drive
- textinst         directly start text based installation to hard drive
- overlay=UUID=    defines the UUID of the USB device used for persistent overlay
- rdinitdebug      debug dracut boot process


More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch

Urs Beyerle

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