Re: Dell OptiPlex 755 and SL7.3 LiveDVD Installer

[Urs Beyerle]

Have you tired the normal installation DVD, for example SL-7.3-Install-Dual-Layer-DVD-x86_64.iso, instead of the LiveDVD? Does the Install 
DVD boot correctly?


On 04/20/2017 09:25 PM, James M. Pulver wrote:

I'm testing the SL7.3 and SL7.2 LiveDVD installer disk and both failed to boot 
the environment for install on a Dell OptiPlex 755 I'm
testing, I get a dracut error. The CENTOS7.3 LiveDVD boots to the GUI 
successfully. Does anyone have any ideas for getting SL7.3 to install
to this computer? Boot flags or something to the installer DVD? Is this a bug? 
Let me know the commands or info you need to help with this.

Thanks,

Re: connecting to wireless network

[Urs Beyerle]

Hi,

SL6 maybe does not support your wireless device. Have you tried SL7 instead? 
SL7 normally supports more recent hardware than the older SL6.

Cheers,

Urs


On 11/08/2015 07:00 PM, Tom Goldring wrote:

I'm trying out SL6 Live, but having trouble connecting to my wireless router. 
Normally when I try to do this on other systems, it gives me a list of available
connections, I select one and type in the key, and it connects. But I don't get 
this in the SL6 Live tool, so I can't get started.

Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD 6.6 officially released

[Urs Beyerle]

Hi,

Scientific Linux 6.6 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released.
They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window manager

LiveMiniCD icewm
LiveCD gnome
LiveDVDgnome, 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, gdisk), and better
multimedia support (gstreamer-ffmpeg, flash-plugin)


DOWNLOAD

- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/i386/iso
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/x86_64/iso
Or
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/66/i386
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/66/x86_64

Alternatively use a public mirror
http://www.scientificlinux.org/downloads/sl-mirrors/


CHANGES SINCE SL6.5 LIVE

- software based on SL6.6
- gnome-applets, gnome-utils, evince, ghostscript, poppler and some fonts
were removed from LiveCD(still available on the 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 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


EXTRA SOFTWARE (repo sl-livecd-extra)

- fuse-sshfs
- ntfs-3g
- ntfsprogs
- dd_rescue
- ddrescue
- iperf
- flash-plugin
- gstreamer-ffmpeg
- rxvt-unicode (only MiniCD)
- gparted
- gdisk
- 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
- automountenable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives
- user=usernameusername of local user, default is liveuser
- cups=server  set CUPS server
- hostname=nameset hostname
- checkverify 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
- ejecteject LiveCD/DVD at shutdown


More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch

Urs Beyerle

Re: Creating Live CD

[Urs Beyerle]

Hi Yogi,

If you are familiar with kickstart scripts, it should be hopefully easy to understand the SL LiveCD scripts and adapt them for you needs. Please note that the 
SL LiveCD scripts are modular.
With livecd-tools you don't create a LiveCD from a running system. A LiveCD is created similar to the procedure that is used to install automatically a system 
with kickstart.

I recommend that you have all software available over repos. For example 
sl65-live-NONPAE.ks is used to replace the standard SL kernel with kernel-lt of 
elrepo.

More info can be found here:
http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/build.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart

Cheers,

Urs


On 03/15/2014 06:22 AM, Yogi A. Patel wrote:

Hi -

I develop a real-time electrophysiology platform (rtxi.org ) using scientific linux with kernel 3.8 and the real-time layer, Xenomai 
(xenomai.org ).


I would like to create a LiveCD of my system to make it easier for users to adopt, however am having trouble. The standard scripts only make LiveCDs of the 
stocks Scientific Linux distribution+kernel.


Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Thank you in advance!

Yogi

Re: encryption of root filesystem

[Urs Beyerle]

Hi,

I have to admit that I don't know, if this is possible. You can have an 
encrypted /home stored on a flash drive using livecd-iso-to-disk.
I only remember one email asking for an encrypted / on 
liv...@lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/2011-October/006936.html

Maybe you want to ask once again on 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd and report it back to 
this list.

Cheers,

Urs


On 03/07/2014 06:33 PM, Boryeu Mao wrote:

In building a bootable DVD image (in the manner of
SL-65-x86_64-2014-02-06-LiveDVD.iso), is it possible to encrypt the
system?  If so, should the file LiveOS/squashfs.img be encrypted, or
the file ext3fs.img contained therein? and what other changes (for
example in the boot configuration) would be needed?   Hopefully this
is a question not outside of the design goals.  Thanks in advance for
any help/pointers.

Scientific Linux 6.5 Live Media released

[Urs Beyerle]

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
LiveDVDgnome, 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
- automountenable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives
- user=usernameusername of local user, default is liveuser
- cups=server  set CUPS server
- hostname=nameset hostname
- checkverify 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
- ejecteject LiveCD/DVD at shutdown


More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch

Urs Beyerle

Re: What happened to adobe repository ?

[Urs Beyerle]

On 01/15/2014 11:08 AM, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:

On 01/15/2014 10:14 AM, Matthieu Guionnet wrote:


yum doesn't need to.
It will access to this url
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/repodata/repomd.xml
and access directly to the install and update RPM files given in the
others urls (primary.xml.gz for example here).


Thank you Matthieu but it looks like only flash-plugin is there.
I was looking for Acrobat Reader (AdobeReader_enu). It used to be
there...



Adobe discontinued the Adobe Reader 9 for Linux in June 2013 and has not fixed and will not fix any further security issues in it. Therefore it makes totally 
sense to remove it from their repo.


Urs

Re: New topic -- Emacs

[Urs Beyerle]

Why don't you ask your questions on the cedet or ecb mailing lists?

http://cedet.sourceforge.net/
http://ecb.sourceforge.net/

Cheers,

Urs



On 09/03/2013 03:30 PM, taozhijiang wrote:

I want to ask whether there are some Emacs lovers.
( Sorry, maybe it is out of touch with SL)

I am handling the configuration of ecb & cedet, someone
any idea?

Re: Update Yum Failed

[Urs Beyerle]

Hi,

Strange. The repodata is re-built everyday. It's again fixed as far as I see.

Thanks,

Urs


On 05/24/2013 07:57 AM, Arif Tri Waluyo wrote:


Hi,
Today some repo report mismatch metadata again. Please fix it. Thanks.

On May 20, 2013 10:37 PM, "Arif Tri Waluyo" mailto:arifi...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:




On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Urs Beyerle mailto:urs.beye...@env.ethz.ch>> wrote:

Hi

Thanks for reporting. Can you please try it again?

Looks like everything is fixed. Thanks for the quick response.

Kind Regards,
Arif


Cheers,

Urs


On 05/20/2013 06:07 AM, Arif Tri Waluyo wrote:

Hi,

When I try to update my system, always appears error message

sl-livecd-extra/primary |  27 kB 00:00

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/sl-livecd-extra/6.4/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
 [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
sl-livecd-extra/primary |  54 kB 00:00

http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/sl-livecd-extra/6.4/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
 [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from sl-livecd-extra: [Errno 
256] No more mirrors to try.

How  to fix it?

Re: Update Yum Failed

[Urs Beyerle]

Hi

Thanks for reporting. Can you please try it again?

Cheers,

Urs


On 05/20/2013 06:07 AM, Arif Tri Waluyo wrote:

Hi,

When I try to update my system, always appears error message

sl-livecd-extra/primary  |  27 kB 00:00
http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/sl-livecd-extra/6.4/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
 [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
sl-livecd-extra/primary  |  54 kB 00:00
http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/sl-livecd-extra/6.4/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
 [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from sl-livecd-extra: [Errno 256] No 
more mirrors to try.

How  to fix it?

Scientific Linux LiveCD/DVD 6.4 officially released

[Urs Beyerle]

Hi,

Scientific Linux 6.4 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD are officially released.
They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window manager

LiveMiniCD icewm
LiveCD gnome
LiveDVDgnome, 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, gdisk), and better
multimedia support (gstreamer-ffmpeg, flash-plugin)


DOWNLOAD

- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/64/i386
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/64/x86_64
Or
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/i386/iso
- http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/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 SL6.3 LIVE

- software based on SL6.4
- spice-xpi, system-config-printer, libsmbclient and foomatic were removed from 
LiveCD


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 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 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6
- xorg 1.13.0
- gnome 2.28
- firefox 17.0.5
- thunderbird 17.0.5
- icewm 1.2.37 (LiveMiniCD)
- libreoffice 3.4.5.2 (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
- gdisk
- 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
- automountenable auto mounting (rw) of all found hard drives
- user=usernameusername of local user, default is liveuser
- cups=server  set CUPS server
- hostname=nameset hostname
- checkverify 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
- ejecteject LiveCD/DVD at shutdown


More information can be found at http://www.livecd.ethz.ch

Urs Beyerle

Re: xterm in SL6.3

[Urs Beyerle]

On 02/18/2013 07:41 PM, Valery Mitsyn wrote:

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Mahmood Naderan wrote:


Hi,
It seems that xterm is not available from livecd installation. However I 
couldn't find that in the repository either.

[root@dhcppc2 mahmood]# xterm
bash: xterm: command not found
[root@dhcppc2 mahmood]# yum search xtrem

 ^
run "yum list xterm" instead.


And to install xterm run

yum install xterm






Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
== N/S Matched: xtrem ==
perl-Test-Deep.noarch : Extremely flexible deep comparison
python-peak-util-extremes.noarch : Production-quality 'Min' and 'Max' objects

  Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.



Is there any way to install that?


Regards,
Mahmood