On 06/26/2010 01:22 PM, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: > Dnia 24-06-2010 o 18:19:10 Urs Beyerle <[email protected]> > napisał(a): > >>> What was the reason not to release the mini_livecd 64bit? >>> >> >> >> A mini_livecd 64bit was never requested so far. An other reason was >> to limit the amount of LiveCDs. >> (...) >> Nevertheless, I've just built a mini_livecd 64bit. Download >> mini_livecd64_SL55_2010-06-24.iso from >> >> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/55/x86_64/ >> >> It's not tested, but you may want to give it a try. > > Hi, > > I did. Some apps didn't open after pressing their buttons when run > from CD - that's the fault of my DVD drive probably - so I went to > shell and installed SL x64 via livecd-install. > > Alas, I was not able to up the SL x64. The process stopped > (repeatedly) at the following messages (copied manually from the > screen, no trace in logs): > > Switching to new root and running in it > unmounting old /dev > unmounting old /proc > unmounting old /sys > > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c > > (here system went to sleep and it has stopped sending messages...) > > BTW.1. I looked to the SL partition from other systems and there are > no dev, proc, sys contents. > > BTW.2. On the second partition with SL x32 I ended up in "dependency > hell" setting priorities to the same value. I know what I did. ;-) But > is there a general rule what to open first? > > I need some apps which I used in Debian like Tea Editor (a must!), > gqview (a must!), opera+firefox (a must!), (good) pdf reader, gftp, > sound (a must), flash (high priority), etc. > > As some apps informed the lack of certain libraries I set priorities > of all repos to 10 to have overall picture of what is available. Alas, > the tea was still left without support - no libs it needed. > > Do I really need to compile them, against what repo? > > BTW.3. The repositories listed on the repo page > http://www.scientificlinux.org/community/repo need little descriptions > IMHO - which one may be used in full alone or together with which, > etc. One hyperlink to external text describing the problem would suffice. > > Regards
Hi, These are a lot of questions. Maybe even worth to open a separate thread on the mailing list. Just two comments: If you have problems installing from livecd, I strongly recommend to install from installation CDs or DVDs (http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/iso). If you depend on many software, which is not part of standard SL distribution, SL is maybe not the right distribution for you. But that’s just my two cents. Cheers, Urs
