Informative Announcement for SL4.x Less Than 2 weeks End Of Life Notice

2012-02-15 Thread Pat Riehecky
In accordance with our Upstream Vendor's Errata Support Policy, the regular life-cycle of Scientific Linux 4 will end in February 2012. After this date, The Upstream Vendor will discontinue the regular update services. We must follow them in this matter. Therefore, new bug fix, enhancement,

wine on SL 5.5

2012-02-15 Thread Tom Rosmond
Scientific Linux Users: I have 2 SL 64 bit systems, one running SL 6.1, the other 5.5. I want to install Wine on each. I found a reference for 6.1 that advised installing the epel-release repository, from which Wine could be installed. I did this with Yum and as promised, was then able to do a

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] wine on SL 5.5

2012-02-15 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 02/15/2012 10:44 AM, Tom Rosmond wrote: Scientific Linux Users: I have 2 SL 64 bit systems, one running SL 6.1, the other 5.5. I want to install Wine on each. I found a reference for 6.1 that advised installing the epel-release repository, from which Wine could be installed. I did this

Re: wine on SL 5.5

2012-02-15 Thread Alec T. Habig
Tom Rosmond writes: However, apparently the epel-release repository isn't available for 5.5. At least a 'yum install epel-release' doesn't find it. So what if any method is available to install Wine on this SL release? Is there another repository that has it, from which I can do a Yum

Re: backup/clone NTFS partition?

2012-02-15 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 02/15/2012 08:21 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote: On 02/14/2012 08:20 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Question: what do you think would be the easiest way to clone the NTFS partition: dd, Clonzilla? Your thoughts appreciated. I've had good luck with partimage from the system rescue cd. Seemed

Strange Virtual Machine Manager GUI behaviour

2012-02-15 Thread Chuck Munro
Hello all, I've hit a very strange behaviour using the Virtual Machine Manager GUI on SL6.1. The problem started after upgrading from 6.0. When adding a new guest OS, I get through to the last step but the display literally says Ready to begin installation of foobar instead of the name I

Scientific Linux 6.2 is now available for download

2012-02-15 Thread Pat Riehecky
Release Notes for Scientific Linux 6.2 February 15 2012 The full release notes are available at http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/62/ Differences from SL6.1 anaconda Added the Scientific Linux install classes DVD installs do not ask for the network

Re: Scientific Linux 6.2 is now available for download

2012-02-15 Thread Steven Haigh
On 16/02/2012 8:01 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote: Release Notes for Scientific Linux 6.2 February 15 2012 The full release notes are available at http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/62/ Excellent work guys! I would just like to confirm if my understanding on one matter is correct...