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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Apr 2013 20:00:04 +0200
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On 04/05/2013 07:38 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> 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.

Hi Alan,

I have tested SL-64-i386-2013-04-05-LiveCD-NONPAE.iso on a "normal" 32-bit system. I was just wondering, if somebody has an old system where the standard SL 
LiveCD does not work, but the LiveCD-NONPAE is working.

Urs

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