The LFS LiveCD Team is proud to announce the release of x86-6.2-4 and x86-6.3-pre1 versions of the LFS LiveCD. Both versions should be treated as betas, the stable release is still x86-6.2-3.
If you are unable to start Xorg on the 6.2-3 CD because your monitor reports its maximum dot clock as 0 MHz, as a workaround, add the "NoDDC" option to the "Device" xorg.conf section that corresponds to your video card. The bug (caused by a LiveCD-specific Xorg patch) is fixed properly in the new CDs. The following features are (temporarily?) dropped: * PATA patches from Alan Cox - not available officially for linux-2.6.18, and nobody is interested in continued testing of the outdated 2.6.16 patch. * Proprietary video drivers: NVIDIA driver crashes even on 2D graphics, ATI driver is too fat. * PACO patch for jhalfs - not available for jhalfs-2.1 The CD images should soon become available from the usual places mentioned at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html . For now, download from http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/x86/ , but the files will be removed from this temporary location once all the mirrors become up to date. The version 6.2-4 of the CD is built using LFS 6.2 and many BLFS packages from the SVN branch. Source packages for LFS 6.2, and the LFS book itself, are included on the LiveCD. The CD is also suitable as a host for building x86 and x86_64 CLFS systems. The main new feature of this CD is major updates of BLFS packages as compared to the previous (6.2-3) release. Simultaneously, the x86-6.3-pre1 CD is released. Its only difference from the 6.2-4 version is that it is based on LFS SVN (plus upstream gcc fixes and installation of asm/unaligned.h). The BLFS packages are _exactly_ the same as in 6.2-4. It is recommended that you download both versions and compare them. We are especially interested in bugs that can be reproduced only on one of them, because this would indicate either a bug in LFS SVN, or something for the BLFS team to consider (because they still target LFS-6.2). Please mail any comments to the LFS LiveCD mailing list. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
