Hi,
in SuSE 6.3 Live means that you boot the computer from CD and get a
working Linux without anything configured. Great as a rescue disc or as a
complete (compilers, man pages, docs ...) Linux on the way.
for SuSE 6.3 there is also an Evaluation CD, this is just a single CD
install, meaning the usual SuSE but with much less packages.
for 7.1 they changed the system. Now the CD boots into the SuSE setup
program (YaST2) after creating a 100MB big file on your harddisk as /home
(This file is created in the existing filesystem, so that nothing gets
destroyed). After that it configures the computer (sound,net,X,input devs
..) and you get a properly configured SuSE Linux which runs from the
CD. Because of the file on the disk the settings and /home are persistant
so that you can reboot the computer and return to the SuSE (if the CD is
in) or just work with whatever was there before.
This also has full compilers and libraries, docs, servers etc. It also
comes with XFree 4.0.2 and KDE 2.0.1 so it's a great tool to check wether
XFree supports a video card or to show off KDE to non-Linuxers or to have
your normal Linux environment available on computers not your own.
Unfortunately the 7.1 Live doesn't allow you to boot into the rescue mode,
which is a pity since 7.1 comes with a recent kernel and reiser etc.
Schlomo
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Oren Held wrote:
> Hi Scholomo
>
> Can you please tell me what 'live-evaluation' is ?
> Is it live, or evaluation ? :)
>
> Thanks,
> Oren.
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > on ftp://clerk.pi.huji.ac.il you can find SuSE 6.3 and 7.0 FTP version and
> > the 6.3 and 7.1 live/evaluation CD images.
> >
> > The 7.1 ISO is not compressed because it contains a compressed disk image.
> >
> > This is an unofficial semi-mirror for my private usage, but feel free to
> > use it, too. Please don't spread this URL outside of Israel, though, since
> > I don't want to put too much strain on the Univeristies resources.
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > PS: The files offered on clerk.pi.huji.ac.il are not under the
> > responsibility and not related to HUJI.
> >
> > --
> > Schlomo Schapiro
> > Computation Authority
> > Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> >
> > Tel: ++972 / 2 / 65-84404
> > Fax: 65-27349
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> > WWW: http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~schapiro
> >
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