The Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing (like Knoppix and many others). It is based on Scientific Linux (SL), which is recompiled from RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) sources. It uses Unification File System (unionfs) in case of SL4 and Another Unionfs (aufs) in case of SL5, allowing read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one and squashfs providing on-the-fly decompression that allows to store 2GB software on a normal CD-ROM. The Live CD/DVDs were built using modified scripts from www.linux-live.org.
Additionally the Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD can be used to setup a server for Diskless Client. The diskless clients will run Scientific Linux without a local Linux installation getting the operation system over the network (via NFS).
The following versions of the Scientific Linux LiveCD are available for download:
Any feedback is very welcome, please mail me or to the Scientific-Linux-Users mailing list.
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Last modified: Friday, 20-Nov-2009 14:22:29 CET by Urs Beyerle