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.linuxfromscratch.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: http://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.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/browser/trunk/doc/lfscd-remastering-howto.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: http://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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
