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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:36:45 +0000
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Urs Beyerle wrote:

> On 01/10/2014 11:48 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Urs Beyerle wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> RC1 (2014-01-08) of SL 6.5 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD for 32-bit and 
>>> 64-bit is now available for testing.
>>> 
>>> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/65/i386
>>> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/65/x86_64
>>> 
>>> Changes since last beta:
>>> 
>>> - LiveCD fits now on a 700MB CD-ROM. Therefore spice-client, lftp, cups, 
>>> phonon-backend-gstreamer, brasero,
>>>  qt, gcalctool, gdisk had to be removed from LiveCD
>> 
>> Can you remind us which partition tools remain on the LiveCD
>> - I'd consider at least one a necessity ?
>
> I guess you refer to the removal of gdisk. gdisk was never part of SL. I took 
> it from epel.
>
> The following tools are still available:
> - gparted (from epel)
> - fdisk
> - palimpsest (Gnome Disk Utility)
>
> Do you think somebody needs gdisk?

Not particularly -  I'm not up to speed on the differences between 
partition tools.
I was just checking that the LiveCD still had at least one
partition tool.

Thanks,

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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