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Can the live CD be cozened into workomg with a fakeraid 5 disk setup on
ICH9 motherboard?

{^_^}   Joanne

On 2014/02/07 10:06, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Scientific Linux 6.5 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released.
> They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window managers
>
> 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), and better multimedia
> support (gstreamer-ffmpeg, flash-plugin)
>
>
> DOWNLOAD
>
> - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/65/i386
> - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/65/x86_64
> Or
> - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.5/i386/iso
> - http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.5/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 SL6.4 LIVE
>
> - software based on SL6.5
> - cups, phonon-backend-gstreamer, pidgin, brasero, qt, gcalctool, gdisk,
>    lftp, spice-client, minicom, nc were removed from LiveCD to save diskspace
>
>
> NOTES
>
> - The Live images are 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 sl-addons:
>      yum --enablerepo=sl-addons install liveusb-creator
> - To build your own LiveCD use livecd-tools from sl-addons:
>      yum --enablerepo=sl-addons install livecd-tools
>
>
> SOFTWARE
>
> - kernel 2.6.32-431.1.2.el6
> - gnome 2.28
> - firefox 24.3.0
> - thunderbird 24.3.0
> - icewm 1.2.37 (LiveMiniCD)
> - libreoffice 4.0.4.2 (only on LiveDVD)
> - kde 4.3.4 (only on LiveDVD)
>    etc.
>
>
> EXTRA SOFTWARE (repo sl-livecd-extra)
>
> - fuse-sshfs
> - ntfs-3g
> - ntfsprogs
> - dd_rescue
> - ddrescue
> - iperf
> - flash-plugin
> - gstreamer-ffmpeg
> - rxvt-unicode (only MiniCD)
> - gparted
> - 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      set CUPS server
> - hostname=name    set 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
> - eject            eject LiveCD/DVD at shutdown
>
>
> More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch
>
> Urs Beyerle
>

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