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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:38:22 +0100
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On 5 April 2013 16:57, Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First release candidates (2013-04-05) of SL 6.4 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and
> LiveDVD for 32-bit and 64-bit are now availablefor testing:
>
> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/64/i386
> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/64/x86_64
>
> In order to squeeze the LiveCD under 700MB, I had to remove the following
> packages: spice-xpi, system-config-printer, libsmbclient and foomatic.
>
> In addition, there is a testing version for a NONPAE LiveCD available. This
> LiveCD is based on the NONPAE kernel-lt from
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt
> I don't know, if this should go into the official release. But this would
> allow people with NONPAE hardware to install SL6.4. Any opinion on that?
>
> I don't have a NONPAE hardware to test. Can anybody test
> SL-64-i386-2013-04-05-LiveCD-NONPAE.iso on a NONPAE hardware?
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Urs

Hi Urs,

One quick comment. If you have a 32-bit system available, surely you
could test your SL-64-i386-2013-04-05-LiveCD-NONPAE.iso offering?
After all, it's not as if you are wishing to test the normal kernel
(i.e. a PAE kernel) on none-PAE able 32-bit hardware!

Alan.

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