Scientific Linux 6.1 Installing SL6 LiveMiniCD{h33t}{mad dog}

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Scientific Linux 6.1 Installing SL6 LiveMiniCD


The Scientific Linux Live CD is a bootable CD that runs Linux directly from CDD without installing. It is based on Scientific Linux (SL), which is recompiled from RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) sources. It uses Unification File System (unionfs) in case of SL4, Another Unionfs (aufs) in case of SL5, and Fedora LiveCD tools in case of SL6. All of them allow a read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one. Further squashfs provids on-the-fly decompression that allows to store 2GB software on a normal CD-ROM.


The Scientific Linux Live CD can be installed on USB flash drive with persistence overlay.

Additionally the Scientific Linux Live CD can be used to setup a server for Diskless Client. The diskless clients will run Scientific Linux without a local Linux installation getting the operation system over the network. Please note that diskless client support in SL6 is limited.

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CHANGES SINCE SL60 LIVE

- Rename LiveCD user from "sluser" to "liveuser"
- Build with Fedora livecd-tools 13.3
- Extra software (not included in standard SL) is now taken from a new repository called "livecd-extra"
- RPMs in livecd-extra repository are taken from rpmforge, epel and elrepoal, and are always up-to-date
- "livecd-extra" repo is defined inyum-conf-livecd-extra and livecd-extra-release RPMs
- fuse-ntfs-3g replaced with ntfs-3g
- progsreiserfs removed
- testdisk removed (which broke some update)
- Add gstreamer-ffmpeg from rpmforge (for playing mp3, mpeg, ...)
- Icewm removed from LiveCD to save diskspace. Icewm is still on LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD.

NOTES

- For SL6 the way how the LiveCD was built has completely changed. It is now based on the Fedora LiveCD Tools.
- If you install the LiveCD to hard drive, the installation of the live image is now done by anaconda similar to the normal SL6 installation.
- You can also install the LiveCD on an USB stick with persistent changes using liveusb-creator included in SL6.
- To build your own LiveCD use livecd-tools from SL6.

SOFTWARE

- kernel 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6
- xorg 1.7.7
- icewm 1.2.37
- gnome 2.28
- firefox 3.6.18
- thunderbird 3.1.11
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