The LiveCD team is proud to announce the release of the
first LiveCD
with LFS-6.3 book for x86-based computers. The CD is
available at:
http://kerrek.linuxfromscratch.
org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-min-r2052.iso
(214 MB) - the minimal CD without sources and without X
window system.
http://kerrek.linuxfromscratc
h.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2052-nosrc.iso
(424 MB) - this CD is identical to the full CD in all
aspects, except
that it doesn't contain tarballs with LFS sources.
http://kerrek.linuxfromscratch.org/
pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2052.iso
(622 MB) - the full CD.
There are some known bugs and missing features that were
present in the
6.2 series of CDs (e.g., no loop-aes support), thus the CDs
are not
called "stable", but for most people, they should
be good enough to
build LFS-6.3 and ask for support online.
The full CD contains X window system, a visually pleasing
desktop
environment (Xfce), the Seamonkey web browser, the LFS book,
the
multiprotocol chat client (GAIM), and many console programs.
It also
includes jhalfs-2.3.1 - a tool that automates building of
LFS, HLFS and
CLFS systems. You can add software of your own choice by
compiling and
installing it directly on the CD, or by remastering the CD
image.
New features as compared to 6.2 CDs:
* Improved support for wireless network cards
* Added wpa_supplicant
* Added support for IBM JFS filesystem
* Added proprietary video drivers
* Made it possible to forcibly load, blacklist and specify
arbitrary
options for kernel modules from the boot prompt
* Added experimental libata-based drivers for IDE devices
(add "pata"
to the boot prompt to activate them, old drivers are used
without this
option)
* Added the ability to load the entire CD contents (except
sources and
proprietary drivers) to RAM. This requires at least 512 MB
of RAM,
allows the use of the CD drive for reading other CDs, and
makes the
programs on the LiveCD operate much faster.
* Added the ability to boot the CD image on systems without
the CD-ROM
drive (slightly broken on FAT and NTFS filesystems due to
this bug:
h
ttp://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ticket/1749)
More information:
The README file:
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd
/browser/trunk/doc/README?rev=2052
Boot loader help screens:
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/
browser/trunk/isolinux/?rev=2052
The remastering HOWTO:
http://wiki.linuxf
romscratch.org/livecd/browser/trunk/doc/lfscd-remastering-ho
wto.txt?rev=2052
In order for the stable release to be possible, the
following bug has to
be either confirmed and fixed, or proven to be non-existing
on the CD:
h
ttp://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ticket/1736 (see
also questions
at
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/livecd
/2007-August/004680.html).
The best thing you can do is to reproduce the "no
available
native/legacy port" error message with your own
self-compiled kernel (so
that we know that the kernel problem is reproducible at all
with your
hardware), boot the CD without the "pata" argument
and see whether this
error message appears. Also, we need to know whether your
self-compiled
kernel can be configured to assign the same device names to
IDE and SATA
disks as the LiveCD, because of the complicated initramfs
setup on the
CD that plays dirty tricks with the module loading order.
Please send
your feedback to the livecd list.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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