Hi all, The release candidates (2010-06-14) of SL55 LiveCD/DVD are ready for testing. If I don't get any reports about major problems with these candidates, the SL55 LiveCD/DVD can be released end of this week. Download from http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/55/i386/ http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/55/x86_64/ Changes since last testing version: - update of isolinux to version 3.86 - update of all RPMs to latest SL55 versions - add boot parameters: blacklist, nohotplug If the LiveCD hangs during boot up when starting udev, you can try to boot with linux nohotplug This will disable /lib/udev/udev_run_hotplugd, but will produces some error messages. Or you can set specific kernel module on the blacklist (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) for hotplug scripts linux blacklist=snd-hda-intel For more info see - http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/parameter.html - http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/trouble.html I don't know, if this really solves any problems with hanging udev startup. And of course this is only a workaround. Cheers, Urs --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Linux 5.5 Live CD and DVD (32bit and 64bit) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing. It is based on Scientific Linux 5.5 (SL55), which is recompiled from RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 sources (RHEL5). The following versions of the Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD are available for download: - livecd: CD-ROM for 32bit - livecd64: CD-ROM for 64bit - livedvd: DVD-ROM for 32bit - livedvd64: DVD-ROM for 64bit - mini_livecd: Mini CD-ROM for 32bit Features - LiveCD can be installed to local hard disk - LiveCD runs from USB key - Changes can be stored persistently on an external device - LiveCD can be mounted over NFS (diskless client) Software - kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 - openAFS client 1.4.12 - xorg 7.1 - alsa sound lib 1.0.17 - gnome 2.16.0 (standard desktop) - gimp 2.2.13 - openoffice.org 3.1.1 - firefox 3.0.19 - thunderbird 2.0.0.24 - kde 3.5.4 (only on LiveDVD) - evolution 2.12.3 (only on LiveDVD) - ... and much more Software added compared to standard Scientific Linux - fuse-ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS support) - ntfsprogs - gparted - reiserfs-utils, progsreiserfs - ms-sys - testdisk - dd_rescue - ddrescue - partimage - iperf - xdialog - xfe, rxvt-unicode (only on Mini LiveCD) --------------------------------------------------------------------- More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch --------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Urs Beyerle