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3MINDI CHANGES
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51.0.8-3 (2006-06-07)
6- exec-shield removed for mindi
7 (Bruno Cornec)
8- Fix a bug for ia64 build in mindi where locallib was undefined
9 (Bruno Cornec)
10- Fix a bug for SuSE and Debian where $dfam was used in install.sh
11 (Bruno Cornec)
12- Make the init script mdadm-aware
13 (Andree Leidenfrost)
14
151.0.8-2 (2006-06-02)
16- Fix bugs in the swap+LABEL code found on rhel4
17 (Peter Naber/Bruno Cornec)
18- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment
19 (Bruno Cornec)
20
211.0.8-1 (2006-05-25)
22- new build process (Bruno Cornec)
23- Fix a bug when a disk less than 2.8 MB can be built, to
24 include enough modules to support SCSI cds
25 (Bruno Cornec)
26- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused)
27 (Bruno Cornec)
28- Add support for LABEL on swap partitions
29 (Michel Loiseleur + Julien Pinon)
30- Attempt to fix bug 6827 (addition of a script for
31 busybox udhcpc to support pxe/dhcp restore)
32 (Bruno Cornec)
33- support of dm and LVM v2 (Andree Leidenfrost)
34- analyze-my-lvm is under $MINDI_LIB (Andree Leidenfrost)
35- Fix a bug introduced by trying to avoid an error
36 message when modprobe.d doesn't exist
37 (Johannes Franken)
38- Fix for Bug #6975 (/net is now excluded from kernel search location)
39 (Bruno Cornec)
40- Allow 5670 MB fllopy disks for lilo as well (Bruno Cornec)
41- Add missing net modules (Klaus Ade Johnstad)
42
431.0.7 (2006-03-10)
44- Fix issue for 2.6 kernels with VIA chipsets (Andree Leidenfrost)
45- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds
46 (Bruno Cornec)
47- init revamped (removed unnecessary second general module loading phase,
48 start NFS appropriately depending on PXE or simple NFS)
49 (Andree Leidenfrost)
50- Changed module 'nfsacl' to 'nfs_acl' (Andree Leidenfrost)
51- Mindi/DiskSize is gone (Bruno Cornec)
52- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed
53 (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
54- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
55- Bug fix for chown in install.sh (JeffS)
56- CHANGES renamed also in install.sh now (Bruno Cornec)
57- rpmlint cleanups
58- Get mindi to look for analyze-my-lvm in it's library directory MINDI_LIB (See also Debian bug #351446.)
59- mindi only deletes freshly created 1440kb images in case of error (See also Debian Bug #348966.)
60 (Andree Leidenfrost)
61- try standard grub-install in grub-MR restore script before trying anything fancy
62 (Andree Leidenfrost)
63- busybox mount should be called with -o ro for PXE (Make RHEL 3 works in PXE
64with a 2.6 failsafe kernel now available)
65 (Bruno Cornec)
66- Fix mindi for 2.6 Failsafe support
67 (Bruno Cornec)
68- mindi now depends on grep >= 2.5 (for -m option)
69 (Marco Puggelli/Bruno Cornec)
70- Fix a bug in LVM context for RHEL4 in GetValueFromField
71 (Rémi Bondoin/Bruno Cornec)
72- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)
73- mindi now supports x86_64 natively (Bruno Cornec)
74- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds
75 (Bruno Cornec)
76
771.06 (2005-12-23)
78- mindi manpage added (Andree Leidenfrost)
79- clean up remaining mount points, mindi.err at the end (Wolfgang Rosenauer)
80- fix bugs for SuSE distro around tar, tr and find arguments order
81 (Wolfgang Rosenauer)
82- new busybox.net version used for better PXE support (Bruno Cornec)
83- USB keyboard support (Bruno Cornec)
84- -p should now work with ISO/PXE/NFS modes (Bruno Cornec)
85- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance)
86 (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
87- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball)
88 (Bruno Cornec)
89- install script rewritten and used for RPM build, with new layout
90 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
91- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
92- use MONDO_LIB exported by mondoarchive instead of MONDO_HOME guessed
93 (Bruno Cornec)
94- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0,
95 mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
96- VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
97- VMPlayer support
98- Code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements
99 (Wolfgang Rosenauer/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec
100- New switches for PXE mode (ping & ipconf, Cf README.pxe)
101 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
102- mindi-kernel added to SVN (Bruno Cornec)
103
1041.05 (2005-11-19)
105- Bug fix for ldd output incorrectly handled, leading to "grep not found" error
106 (Andree Leidenfrost)
107- NFS now works in interactive mode, and nolock problems are solve
108 (Andree Leidenfrost)
109- IA-64 support is now working for rhel 3
110 (Bruno Cornec)
111- add MINDI_CONF to the mindi LOGFILE
112 (Philippe De Muyter)
113- Speed up fdisk'ing dev/ida raid devices
114 (Philippe De Muyter)
115
1161.04 (2005-05-03)
117- support exec-shield
118- added 'ide-generic' module to IDE modules in mindi to ensure that kernels
119 with fully modularised IDE sub-system boot
120- rewrote script 'wait-for-petris' to ensure that petris actually starts and
121 can be restarted reliably
122- fixed syntax error in mindi where a wrong delimiter is used in and sed call
123 when processing file '/etc/issue.net'
124- removed '#!/bin/bash' from file 'rootfs/etc/bashrc' (bashrc get sourced, not
125 executed)
126- removed executable flag from:
127- 'rootfs/etc/ld.so.cache'
128- 'rootfs/root/.profile'
129
1301.03 (2004-09-29)
131- better support of SLES 8
132
1331.02 (2004-07-21)
134- better kernel-level logging
135- added ACL, xattr binaries to deplist.txt
136- fixed obscure bug which occasionally stopped mindi from correctly finding
137 and documenting all LVM2 LVM-on-RAID volumes
138
1391.01 (2004-06-21)
140- added ide_tape and other modules to mindi's config detection
141- unmount errant ramdisk ($mtpt) if fail to create boot floppy
142- better support of ISO dirs at restore-time (Conor Daly)
143
1441.00 (2004-06-18)
145- first 1.0x release
146- catch Ctrl-Alt-Del; trigger soft reset
147- better support of SuSE 9.1
148- added mdadm to deplist.txt
149- better detection of multiple Mindis (Martin Fürstenau)
150- don't complain if just a Mindi boot CD & not a platform for Mondo
151- updated busybox to 1.0.0pre10
152- removed uClibc
153- add memtest support
154- 2.6 kernel support
155- removed Embleer files (Andree Leidenfrost)
156- LVM v2 support for 2.6 (Takeru Komoriya)
157- added kernel-only floppy support, to accommodate really big kernels
158- updated+rebuilt busybox
159- added star support
160- mount /sys at boot-time
161- better 64-bit and 2.6 kernel support
162- better LVM, failsafe kernel support (Jim Richard)
163- use LILO, not raw kernel, on 1.4MB boot floppy
164- record names of unsaved modules for future reference
165- enlarged ramdisk by 8MB
166
167v0.95 (2004-03-25)
168- changed some '==' to '=' --- now more RH6-friendly
169- allow absolute pathnames again in deplist
170- disable multifunc cd thing
171- better Gentoo support (Bill)
172- better OnStream support
173- better Slackware support (Laurenz)
174- added partimagehack-static to deplist.txt
175- recompiled Busybox - 10k smaller, better stack-handling
176- fixed boot screen typo
177- added support for 'auto' fs format
178- better devfs support for Mandrake users
179- better Debian+LVM support (Ralph Grewe)
180- updated analyze-my-lvm to handle floating-point gigabyte -L values
181
182v0.94 (2003-09-24)
183- altered rootfs's /dev entry to stop cvs from becoming confused
184- tweaked MAX_COMPRESSED_SIZE
185- added multi-function CD support to mindi and sbin/post-init
186- re-mount root as rw just in case
187- ask user to remove last data (floppy) disk if nec. (Tom Mortell)
188- added support for 5th column in mountlist.txt for labels
189- added symlinks.tgz
190- suppress erroneous error messages re: failsafe kernel
191
192v0.93 (2003-06-04)
193- added cciss.o to SCSI_MODS
194- if format type is (e.g.) ext3,ext2 then use 1st entry
195- re-enabled fsck*
196- if cciss in use then enable it at boot-time
197- added /dev/ataraid/* to boot disk via ataraid.tgz (Luc S.)
198- better ISO support
199- tweaked mindi to use 10-15% fewer floppies
200- added RUN_AFTER_INITIAL_BOOT_PHASE var at start of Mindi, which
201 user may use to force Mindi to run command before bootstrapping
202 to aux data disks or CD - e.g. 'echo engage > /proc/scsi/something'
203- allow for Debian & other Stiefkinder that use 'none', not 'swap'
204 as the mountpoint of the swap partition
205- removed afio dependency
206- added RUN_AFTER_BOOT_PHASE_COMPLETE to let user specify a command
207 to be run by Mindi after it boots but before it runs mondorestore
208- re-worked install.sh and tarball not to use tgz's
209- cleared up the boot msg
210- updated busybox to 0.60.5; updated uClibc to 0.9.19
211- add #!/bin/sh to start of insert-all-my-modules
212- fixed obscure bug in install-additional-tools
213- change grep -m1 to grep | head -n1, for Debian users
214- moved lib.tar.bz2 and vmlinuz to mindi-kernel tarball/rpm
215
216v0.92 (2003-05-04)
217- fixed LVM/RAID bugs (Brian Borgeson)
218- if bad lilo, give more verbose error before quitting
219- added mt and perl to deplist.txt
220- insmod ide-cd, cdrom, isofs, just in case
221- boot-time tmpfs ramdisk is now 40m (was 34m)
222- cleaned up logs
223- iso mode now calls Interactive
224- make SizeOfPartition() more Debian-friendly (Andree Leidenfrost)
225- clean up some calls to grep, esp. partition_mountpt=...
226- corrected some bashisms, to suit Debian ped- er, users
227- made first line refer to bash, not sh, to make sure
228 the Debian people know Mindi requires bash, not hs
229- changed grep -v "#" and grep -vx "#.*" to grep -vx " *#.*"
230- disabled code which would make Mindi use sfdisk instead of fdisk
231 if it looked as if Debian's fdisk would misbehave
232
233v0.91 (2003-04-04)
234- updated ResolveSoftlinks() to work better with b0rkn Gentoo devfs /dev
235- patched analyze-my-lvm (Benjamin Mampaey)
236- detect built-in boot.b files in lilo
237- return w/err, don't abort, if Matt Nelson's RH8 system is farked
238- better at finding isolinux.bin
239- better at analyzing dependencies when running on broken distributions
240- try harder to boot from CD, even if tape fails
241- added ADDITIONAL_BOOT_PARAMS to be sent to kernel
242- better resolution of relative softlinks, leading to fewer
243 duplicates on data disks and therefore fewer data disks
244- detect Debian+devfs; use sfdisk instead of fdisk in that
245 eventuality, to work around yet another of Debian's warts
246- removed /lib/libuuid.* from rootfs.tgz
247- fixed vi
248- mindi now uses gawk --traditional (making gawk behave in a functionally
249 identical way to awk) - PASS; great, so now Debian needs to fix its awk :)
250- removed / from list of dirs accessed when trying to resolve deplist entry
251- spinner bugfix; handle odd LABELs properly (Tom Mortell)
252
253v0.90 (2002-12-08)
254- new stable branch
255- EXTRA_SPACE=16384
256- fixed deplist.txt
257
258v0.72 (2002-12-02)
259- misc code clean-ups
260- save boot device's boot sector
261- detect and beware Compaq diagnostic partitions
262- better handling of devfs V non-devfs kernels and boot devs
263- trimmed to busybox 0.60.3 binary on boot disk
264- mindi now resides in /usr/local/bin
265- removed lilo from dependencies
266- more Gentoo-friendly
267
268v0.71 (2002-11-17)
269- if your kernel's builddate doesn't match any of the kernels in
270 your /boot directory then fudge the issue & find the closest
271 match (*grumble* Debian)
272- scan tape & CD at start, to force inclusion of modules on boot device
273- double EXTRA_SPACE if >7 disks
274- slimmer, more lithesome logfile
275- now accepts --findkernel
276- line 1982 - dd count=24000 should be count=$ramdisksize (Andras Korn)
277- better handling of non-Linux partitions on DevFS-enabled kernels
278- fixed Debian/ramdisksize/bloat problem (Johannes Franken)
279- fixed 2.4.20/fdisk eccentricity (Alistair Stevens)
280- updated kernel to 2.4.18-mdk6
281- generate mountlist in dev-abetical order ;)
282- fixed minor bug in .spec file
283- better at finding /boot/boot.b if your distro breaks the de facto standard
284- fixed minor bug in MakeMountlist
285- fixed install.sh
286- cleaned up deplist.txt
287- added rudimentary -v / -version flag
288- line 1180 or so --- duplicate mindi.iso entires --- fixed
289- added /bin/[ - a softlink to /bin/sh
290- ListAllPartitions() - sanity fix (KP)
291- fixed .spec bug
292- better feedback
293- added Markus's RAID patch
294- ListAllPartitions() - include /mnt/win* (Hugo)
295
296v0.70 (2002-09-08)
297- better logging by dependency-calculating code
298- better handling of dependencies, specifically softlinks
299- if called by mondo then use mondo's temp dir as our temp dir too
300- changed gawk to $AWK in a few places, to allow for Debian
301- added host* config files to deplist
302- added tftp, ifconfig to busybox
303- added RPC support to uClibc
304- cleaned up creation of Mondo-Mindi configuration file
305- fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling
306 multiple, same-version kernels gracefully
307- cleaned up deplist.txt
308- receive 'DIFFERENTIAL' variable from Mondo
309- better Debian compatibility, esp. w/detection of ver# (Hector Alvarez)
310- better devfs support; call fgrep in places instead of grep (Andrew Korn)
311- fixed analyze-my-lvm (Ralph Gruwe)
312
313v0.65-1 (2002-07-14)
314- moved 50K of stuff from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
315- added x11-tools.tgz option
316- updated /dev/console and /dev/tty0 (Paul Stevens)
317- cleaned up /mnt/groovy-stuff V /tmp/tmpfs code
318- catch sigint, sighup, etc.
319- fixed LILO-related message.txt mistake
320- .spec file clean-up; automation; config file (Carl Wilhem Soderstrom)
321
322v0.64-1 (2002-07-13)
323- fixed RH7.3 readonly bug
324- improved nfs config file creation
325- search more locations for isolinux.bin
326- added isonuke option
327- faster data disk creation
328- better DevFS support (Hector Alvarez, DuckX)
329- nfs-related fix (Hans Lie)
330- abort if vfat filesystem present but mkfs.vfat missing
331- removed softlink to pico
332- allow Mondo to say no compression will be used
333- added [ to ramdisk
334- tar data disks with -b [block size] of 32k
335- don't autoboot to 'RESTORE' screen - it's scary!
336- let user choose lilo or syslinux as boot loader
337- added syslinux support
338- cleaned up message screens
339
340v0.63-7 (2002-06-04)
341- improved logging
342
343v0.63-6 (2002-06-02)
344- sped it up a bit
345- fixed ISO creation bug
346
347v0.63-5 (2002-05-22)
348- fixed RAID mountlist bug (Daniel Grandjean)
349- better at German kbd support (Klaus Guntermann)
350- no longer abort if MONDO_PATH cannot be discerned
351- updated .spec file (Jesse Keating)
352
353v0.63-4 (2002-05-06)
354- added less.bin to deplist.txt
355- copy mondo-restore.cfg configuration file to /var/cache/mondo-archive
356- increased EXTRA_SPACE to 16384
357- fixed bug in -H (RESTORE) function
358
359v0.63-2 (2002-04-25)
360- added mkdir -p to fix mountlist.txt-copying bug (Bruno Vidal)
361- made sure mindi.iso (for tape users) copies kernel to [cd dir]/vmlinuz
362
363v0.63 (2002-04-23)
364- minor cosmetic improvements
365- improved homedir-locating code
366- make sure the kernel is copied to [cd build dir]/vmlinuz
367
368v0.62 (2002-04-08)
369- keep certain /dev directories compressed until boot-time, to allow
370 Mindi to support larger kernels
371- cleaned up logging a lot
372- better detection of the kernel currently in use
373- added /dev/nst* to ramdisk
374- amend isolinux.cfg to specify the correct ramdisk size
375
376v0.60 (2002-03-31)
377- bootable CD's now use ISOLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
378- abort if isolinux not found
379- abort if multiple copies of Mindi found lying around
380- include mountlist.txt in ramdisk
381
382v0.59 (2002-03-21)
383- change sbin/init's Die() function (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
384- improve friendliness of kernel-related warning msg (Andy Glass)
385- added s/w switch re: making floppies (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
386
387v0.58-r7 (2002-03-10)
388- excluded two unused vars (Carl Soderstrom)
389
390v0.58-r6 (2002-03-03)
391- reassemble large data/library files who have older 'mv' code which doesn't
392 like to overwrite symlinks - affects older RH+Slack systems (Andrew Bulhak)
393- call /usr/bin/logger, not 'logger', in LogIt()
394- run chmod 755 `which start-nfs` before running start-nfs
395
396v0.58-r5 (2002-02-24)
397- pathname problem fixed (Fred Feirtag)
398- patch to Debianize mindi a bit (H�tor Garc� �varez)
399- removed mondo-manual.html
400- moved /dev/{cciss,ida,rd} from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
401- cleaned up the refs to analyze-my-lvm a bit (Hugo)
402- sped up disk-creation by 20-30%
403- make sure mondo-restore.cfg is on data disk as well as boot disk
404- added support for -C (cdstream) mode
405
406v0.58-r4 (2002-02-18)
407- quash error if /opt not found
408- use /tmp/groovy-stuff instead of /mnt/groovy-stuff for
409 handling data disks and their contents, for tape users
410
411v0.58-r3 (2002-02-17)
412- misc enhancements
413- uses self-resizing ramdisk (tmpfs) for /tmp
414- allows Mondo to exclude certain devices from mountlist
415- incorporated .spec patch (Ian Kent)
416- replaced &> /dev/null with > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
417- added vi to busybox again
418
419v0.58-r2 (2002-02-11)
420- fixed errant tar warning
421- replaced libc5 with uClibc
422- compiled busybox and open against uClibc
423- moved minor scripts+tools from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
424- Mindi can now accommodate a kernel of up to 1290KB in size
425- no longer insists on cdrecord being present
426
427v0.58 (2002-02-10)
428- more pointed error messages
429- fixed silly 'cp' error (Markus Marquardt)
430- use type C's embleer file for type B Windows partitions
431- increased EXTRA_SPACE from 4096 to 8192
432- cosmetic bugfixes
433- nfs users boot into nfs options by default
434
435v0.57 (2002-02-05)
436- abort if mounted partition is specified as an imagedev
437- understand 'FAILSAFE' as kernel alternative
438- added analyze-my-lvm to tools available thru PATH
439- better discovery of locale and keymap file (Claude Mah�
440- compatible with 1.2x and the new 1.38+ stuff
441- better 'bug-me' script (Troff)
442
443v0.56 (2002-02-01)
444- compatible with Mondo v1.5x devel branch
445- mindi's softlink now goes in /usr/sbin; was /usr/bin
446- include nfs.o, nfsd.o, lockd.o and sunrpc.o on data disks if available
447- patched .spec file to make it easier to change installdir (Ian Mortimer)
448- updated README
449- moved many global vars to start of script
450- better at finding US kbd maps
451- migrating to a single configuration file, /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg, for
452 Mondo users; file is not in use yet but is there for future expansion
453
454v0.55 (2002-01-28)
455- MINDI_HOME and MONDO_HOME defined at start of each source file, making
456 it easier to relocate Mindi and Mondo if desired
457- tries to mount /dev/hd[a-h] at boot-time, looking for CD-ROM; was hd[a-d]
458- re-enabled the msg asking user to upgrade LILO if v21.6
459- Lin/Win users are much, _much_ less likely to run out of disk space now
460 when restoring from backups (Carlos Molina)
461- patch from Andrej Borsenkow to help w/Mandrake 8.1
462- disabled ramdisk free space checker (some distros don't like it)
463
464v0.54 (2002-01-25)
465- don't abort if kernel is too big for 1.72MB floppy
466- better handling of eccentric distros and their keybd layouts
467- cosmetic fixes
468- sprinkled comments liberally inside deplist.txt
469- added gawk and awk to deplist
470- lilo has been added to .spec file
471- changed a couple of FatalError()'s to Die()'s
472- better TurboLinux 7 / LVM compatibility
473
474v0.53 (2002-01-20)
475- better support of non-Red Hat, non-Debian keyboard resource files
476- cleaned up /sbin/init's output
477- replaced libc5 mount with user's own 'mount'
478- updated embleer.C.bz2
479- missing /dev/hdb2 found & replaced (thanks, Troff)
480- populated /dev/rd and /dev/ida on ramdisk (Michael Eisenberg)
481- improved SizeOfPartition() function
482- improved TryToFindKernelPath() function
483- don't offer NFS users Nuke Mode
484- finds and uses lilo.real if user is using Debian, a distro which
485 installs a shell script where the lilo executable should go
486- improved support for XFS users who opt to use failsafe kernel
487- uses user's lsmod, depmod, insmod, etc.
488- fixed freeze-up resulting from missing 'cat $mappath' command
489- mount tmpfs at /tmp/tmpfs for mondo-restore's benefit
490- try to create /dev/fd0u1722 if it is missing from /dev
491- added .spec file to tarball
492
493v0.52-2 (2002-01-10)
494- fixed a bug in the handling of non-English keyboard maps
495- force failsafe kernel to provide reiserfs.o, xfs.o, jfs.o, ext2.o,
496 ext3.o and loop.o at boot-time, just in case
497- added /dev/sr[0-3] devices
498- copy LAST_FILELIST_NUMBER to /tmp, for compatibility with Mondo v1.3x
499- incorporates NFS-related settings, if supplied by Mondo v1.3x
500- replace busybox's mount with standard libc5 mount ater restoring
501 tools from floppies: NFS mounting requires full mount
502- always make mindi.iso
503
504v0.52-1 (2002-01-06)
505- ramdisk's size has been tweaked
506- if script 'bootstrap' is found at boot-time then execute it
507- use tty8 to show mondo's output log
508- use tty7 to offer a game of Petris (if it exists on disk)
509- be sure to use i386-only keymaps
510- if LILO's "/tmp/dev.0" error occurs then abort & tell user to reboot
511- /sbin and /usr/sbin added temporarily to PATH when Mindi runs
512- if Mondo asks then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode
513- if Mondo's tmpdir has post-nuke.tgz in it then extract it and
514 incorporate its files in the data disks
515- losetup /dev/loop0 -d before calling LILO (Norm Crowfoot)
516- if keyboard mapping dir (usu. /lib/kbd or /usr/lib/kbd) cannot be
517 found then don't abort; simply tell the user the default keyboard
518 mapping will be used
519- added /dev/hd[a,b,c,d][17-24] to the rootfs tarball
520- won't use LILO's optimizations when creating boot floppy; however,
521 optimizations are used on CD unless --broken-bios in call to Mondo
522- won't write data disks to start of tape; lets Mondo do that
523- tweaked how Mindi moves all.tar.gz around, to make it more
524 Mondo-friendly
525- tweaked Mindi's disk-splitter
526- user must unmount /dev/loop0 before calling Mindi: LILO insists...
527- added NFS-related entries to deplist.txt
528- if not called by Mondo then don't let user choose Interactive/Nuke/
529 whatever; just offer Expert
530
531v0.51-1 (2001-12-25)
532- removed libm.* from rootfs.tgz
533- replaced sh with busybox's ash
534- upgraded busybox to 0.60-2; pared it down, too
535- include tape-related modules on boot disk, if backing up to tape
536- creates a tape-friendly tarball containing tools+modules
537- reassembly of tools+libraries is more reliable now
538- streamlined deplist.txt
539- give user their localized keyboard layout at boot-time
540- fix some cosmetic bugs
541
542v0.50-4 (2001-12-19)
543- log Mindi's version# in the event of a fatal error
544- make Mindi's boot-time output more esthetically pleasing
545- if filesystem is type 'image', according to Mondo, then in filelist
546 its partition type will be listed as the hexadecimal string (e.g.
547 'b', '83', etc.) and the partition mountpoint will be 'image'
548
549v0.50-2 (2001-12-15)
550- support for newer features in Mondo v1.3x
551
552v0.50-1 (2001-12-14)
553- correctly lists RAID constituent partitions in mountlist
554- breaks compatibility with Mondo v1.2x
555- if user's fstab has weird line(s) then ignore; don't abort
556- working on CDROM_MODS, trying to make it work on Stewart Charnell's
557 hardware setup
558- cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-init a bit
559
560v0.48-2 (2001-12-09)
561- when insmod'g modules from ramdisk's root dir, use 'ls /*.o*'
562 (was 'ls /*.*') to find them
563- if RAID controller(s) are detected then pause for 10s to let them
564 intialize by themselves (some 3ware RAID controllers require this)
565- cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-ini; the former now controls
566 initialization of hardware, drivers, tools, etc. and the latter
567 runs mondo-restore if it exists
568- better detection of and compatibility with SCSI CD-ROM drives
569- chopsize is now 64KB; was 128KB
570- cleaned up mindi's logging
571
572v0.48-1 (2001-12-08)
573- better logging of find-and-mount-cdrom's progress (to
574 /tmp/mondo-restore.log)
575- somehow, lilo was re-enabled in deplist.txt; DISABLED (again *g*)
576- added 'linear' to the list of modules Mindi always backs up
577- if called by Mondo then pass the name & device of the user's boot
578 loader to the restore phase, by copying BOOTLOADER.* to the ramdisk
579- if loading from floppies then try to mount CD-ROM a 2nd time after
580 extracting files from data floppies, just in case user is a CD user
581 who couldn't get their CD-ROM drive to work initially
582- added fix to make sure /root/images/mindi is created (Charlie Root)
583- aware of 'iso' boot mode, for future expansion
584
585v0.47 (2001-12-04)
586- added /dev/cdrom/cdrom[1-4] to the devices automatically excluded
587 from mountlist.txt
588- added '-f-' to the end of most tar commands, to see if it fixes a
589 bug in some obscure Debian distros
590- added network-related dependencies to deplist.txt
591- if called by Mondo then don't write floppy images to disks; let
592 Mondo do that: less irritating for user
593- if called by Mondo then do some clever tricks to add mondo-restore
594 and its dependencies (mondo-restore is now a dynamic executable)
595- finally gotten klogd to squelch echoing of kernel msgs to console
596
597v0.46 (2001-11-29)
598- finally fixed that 'lib/modules/2.4.12-xfs not found' bug! :-D
599- cosmetic changes and minor bugfixes
600- excluded lilo.conf and lilo from deplist.txt; use user's copy instead
601- if your fstab mentions a RAID partition but your raidtab doesn't then
602 Mindi will terminate in a sane manner with a sane error message
603- fixed a bug in bug-me (heh, how ironic)
604- include and run (sys)klogd to try to pipe kernel msgs to logfile
605- call hdparm to speed up access to CD-ROM drive
606
607v0.45 (2001-11-15)
608- disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt
609- include /etc/fstab in logfile
610- removed lzop.* from aux-tools; should come from user's distro anyway
611- tweaked data disk size and data disk formatting command
612- make ISO bootable image (as well as floppies) when backing up to tape
613- copy boot images (floppy + CD) from temp dir to /root/images/mindi
614 after making them, just in case the user wants them later
615- added md5sum to deplist.txt
616- added pico->vi softlink to ramdisk
617- in the ramdisk's /etc/bashrc, added /usr/local/bin and
618 /usr/local/sbin to the PATH= command
619- call insert-all-modules as background task; pause 3 seconds after
620 calling it, before proceeding <--- /sbin/init
621- call to devfs has been moved to before call to post-init
622- added 'md5sum -> busybox' softlink
623- Mindi now uses busybox's printf, md5sum, mount, umount, vi
624 ...NB: I said, 'vi' :-) Now you have an editor again! :-)
625- added lilo.real to deplist.txt, to allow for Debian's evil new distro
626- added lzop to deplist.txt
627- no longer including lzop in Mindi's tarball / RPM
628- improved Mindi's error-reporting a little bit
629- changed deplist.txt's /etc/* to just *
630- restructured the calls in /sbin/post-init that reinitialize the LVM
631 and RAID modules
632- if mkfs.ext2 is not in PATH then abort
633- Mindi uses a 'filename cache' to speed itself up at run-time
634 (Jean-David Marrow)
635- Red Hat 7.2 uses a weird /etc/issue.net; I've worked around it...
636- tested with Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2
637
638v0.44 (2001-10-28)
639- at boot-time, activate LV's if they exist
640- restructured deplist.txt a bit (cosmetic change)
641- re-enabled fsck.* in deplist.txt
642- analyze-my-lvm fails gracefully if you're not using LVM but inserted
643 the module anyway
644
645v0.43 (2001-10-21)
646- made Mindi work with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
647- if mkisofs is not found, say so; don't just say, 'an error occurred
648 while I was trying to make an ISO image'
649- when formatting and writing floppies, if /dev/fd0's size is
650 indeterminable then I'll use /dev/fd0H1440 instead
651- make sure xfs.o, jfs.o, reiserfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o modules are
652 backed up (if they exist) to boot disks
653- fixed a silly bug that stopped Mindi from handling its own modules
654 properly; only affects newbie users with broken kernels (i.e. the
655 very people that Mindi's failsafe kernel was meant to help!)
656- added lzop (Marcus Oberhumer's file compressor) to aux-tools.tgz
657- added Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch; if user uses the switch
658 (i.e. '--cd-recovery yes') then the CD will boot to a screen that
659 pauses until the user types RESTORE; then, it will enter Nuke Mode
660- added Stephan Zegherd's "superformat" patch
661- failsafe kernel is now 2.4.12 with XFS, JFS and lots of SCSI modules;
662 the addition of XFS and extensive SCSI support will increase the
663 size of Mindi's RPM / tarball significantly but I think it's worth it
664- at boot-time, find out whether there are any RAID partitions; and if
665 there are, whether they are 'started' yet; if not, run raidstart to
666 start them at boot-time, before user can try to mount anything
667- Mindi's failsafe kernel & modules are handled more elegantly now;
668 if you have raid1.o, scsi.o, etc. loaded at backup-time then Mindi
669 finds its corresponding modules in its tarball of failsafe modules
670 and stores them so that at boot-time you can do SCSI, RAID, etc.
671- removed gawk, printf from deplist.txt
672
673v0.42 (2001-10-10)
674- make sure lvm-mod, raid0, raid1 and raid5 modules are backed up
675- added 'you need a ramdisk' to FAQ
676- changed the slice size from 20KB to 64KB; speeds up Mindi by 25%
677 and doesn't have any negative side-effects (...that I can see)
678- when searching for your current kernel version, do not examine
679 a file if it does not exist (it sounds obvious, I know...)
680- when asking user to send me a copy of their log file, point out
681 that it may contain info which they do not want me to see but that
682 they are SOL unless I can actually see their log file
683- fixed a silly bug that would crop up when a Linux-Mandrake 8.1 user
684 would use a devfs-enabled kernel and RAID partitions at the same time
685- plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
686- data floppies are now 1.44MB each; boot floppy is still 1.72MB
687- if binutils or libbinutils is not installed, abort
688- fixed a bug which meant that some big files overwrote each other
689 at backup-time and caused library-related problems are boot-time
690- enabled comments ('#') in deplist.txt
691- disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt; user may re-enable the line if
692 s/he wants those tools available at boot-time
693- tested successfully with the following distros
694 - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel
695 - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel
696- better at guessing the size of swap partition
697- drop minix tools from deplist; user can restore them if s/he wants
698 to use the minix filesystem
699- don't backup _all_ cdrom modules (if backing up 'cdrom.o'); be
700 selective! ...minor bug in ListKerneModulePaths has been fixed
701- if the user has two glibc libraries - one in /lib and one in
702 /lib/i686 - then Mindi will re-jig the softlinks so that only the
703 version in /lib is backed up, to save space on the data disks
704- major rewrite of the code that copies the tools and libraries from
705 the data disks; prettier, faster and more stable (and did I mention
706 how kind it is to your hard-working hands?)
707- better handling of crazy libraries and softlinks thereto
708- new boot-time script, 'bug-me', copies user's logs to a floppy and
709 tells him/her to e-mail them to me if mondo-restore aborts
710- ignore kernels named vmlinux (note the 'X'); traditionally, kernels
711 are named vmlinuz (note the 'Z') or something similar
712- no longer backup all modules to CD/tape; just backup the ones loaded
713 at backup-time; this saves boot-time ramdisk space
714- removed all references to LOOPDEVICE
715- LVM is supported (experimental; watch this space...)
716- included a tarball of 'sane' /dev/loop* nodes which will be extracted
717 and added to the boot disk; this helps maintain Mindi's backward-
718 compatibility with non-devfs kernels and distros
719- when copying modules to boot or data disks, uncompress them first
720 if they are gzipped (some distros come with compressed modules)
721- no longer copies all loaded modules to the 2.88 MB El Torito bootable
722 floppy image; instead, it copies FLOPPY_MODS to the 1.72 MB image,
723 CDROM_MODS to the 2.88 MB image, and _all_ modules that were loaded
724 at backup-time to the data disks
725 - supports tape streamers, in conjunction with Mondo
726- uses busybox's sync again; let's see if that breaks anything...
727- if Mondo is backing up to tape streamer then write the tape's size to
728 /tmp/TAPESIZE and the drive's device to /tmp/TAPEDEV-LIVES-HERE on
729 the ramdisk
730- floppy disk modules (ide-floppy.o and floppy.o) now are copied
731 to the ramdisk, whether the user's kernel or the failsafe kernel
732 is being used
733
734v0.41 (2001-09-28)
735- excluded *.old from the 'boot.b' list when searching for boot.b
736- updated Mindi's own failsafe kernel+modules to v2.4.10
737- added umount to deplist again
738- improved Mindi's support of modular kernels (esp. modular CD-ROM
739 drive and floppy disk drives)
740- don't accuse Linux 2.4.10 users of having a 'buggy kernel'
741- restored the libc5 versions of sync and umount (dropped from
742 deplist but also from busybox)
743- fixed a lot of silly bugs related to incorporating Busybox in Mindi
744- experimental LVM support
745- added 'analyze-my-lvm' script to the tarball; Mindi uses it now
746- able to recognize & record LVM mounts, adding them to the mountlist
747- added the LVM executables (listed in the lvm-0.xx-i386.rpm) to
748 deplist.txt; they won't be added unless you have them and you won't
749 have them unless you're using LVM, so this is not 'bloat' IMO :)
750- added date and sync to deplist again
751- when working on LVM stuff, use 'echo y | pvcreate -ff' (was '..-f')
752- amended format-...-kludge to allow for mountlists with >1
753 spaces between cols
754 checked the fsck.reiserfs is in deplist.txt (yes it is)
755- incorporated busybox 0.60-1; now, Mindi is faster at run-time and
756 smaller at boot-time; you can fit a typical system onto 3 floppies;
757 also, a kernel up to 1MB in size (approx.) can now be accommodated
758- supports kernels that have MODULAR support for CD-ROM's or floppies
759- Mindi copies only the loaded modules to the data disks but it copies
760 _all_ modules to the CD, just in case
761- thanks to busybox your floppy-based Mindi boot disk set should now be
762 able to accommodate a kernel of up to 1MB in size
763- boot into Expert Mode unless boot disk was generated by Mondo
764- exclude all softlinks from list of 'eligible' kernels
765- exclude kernels with 'vmlinux' in their names
766- removed A LOT of files from deplist.txt's dependency list; they are
767 listed in deplist.removed, in case you want to put them back :-)
768- excludes libX11, libXext, libXi, libgtk, libgdk ALWAYS, whether you
769 add them to deplist.txt or not; [cancel this by editing line 485]
770- rewrote AddFileToDir() to make it more efficient (but slower...)
771- strip chaff from binaries; strip comments from bash scripts; strip
772 comments from /etc/termcap
773
774v0.40 (2001-09-16)
775- if you use a softlink to your CD dev, e.g. /dev/cdrecorder->scd0,
776 then Mindi should handle it properly now (i.e. not bomb out)
777- if you have a large kernel & lots of modules loaded, Mindi will only
778 copy as many modules to the ramdisk as will _fit_ on a ramdisk that
779 will have to go alongside your kernel on a 2.88MB floppy disk
780- if your kernel does not support loopfs, Mindi will say so & abort
781- turned some warnings into fatal errors, to help the user to figure
782 out exactly why Mindi won't work on their kernel
783- changed mke2fs -N24 to -N32, to see if it helps braindead distros
784- Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
785- gone back to the old 'insert-my-modules' for now; it's more reliable
786- working on the 'insert-all-my-modules' script, to make it compatible
787 with a wider range of insane distros and kernels
788- dropped the '-c' option from LILO call
789 - removed cdrecord, mkisofs, vi, route and diff from deplist.txt
790- slowed down the 'split data between floppies' routine; made it
791 try harder to squeeze more data onto each floppy
792- excluding nvidia modules from the "insert-all-my-modules" script
793 because it sometimes causes freeze-ups
794- added code to copy your fstab, lilo.conf, etc. to a tarball which, in
795 the event of an error, Mindi will ask the user to e-mail me
796
797v0.39 (2001-09-08)
798- plays nicely with devfs, so long as your old /dev/hdX, /dev/sdX
799 softlinks are still there :-)
800- if your swap partition isn't mounted, Mindi will decide that it is
801 125MB; it used to abort but now it just warns & makes a good guess
802- testing the failsafe kernel & associated scripts
803- only use lilo's "-c" option if NOT a 2.88MB floppy disk image
804- copes better with .o, .gz, etc. module suffixes
805- better 'loaded modules / not loaded modules' feedback at boot-time
806- semi-forces isofs and ide-cd (not isofs.o and ide-cd.o); the former
807 will be more compatible with stock kernels - e.g. Red Hat, Mandrake;
808 also added vfat, fat & a few other modules to the list of 'foced'.
809- removed the '-c' switch from the call to LILO (some BIOSes don't
810 like it very much)
811- removed chaff from ramdisk's /etc/login.defs, saving approx 7K
812- format the boot disks with -N 24 (was -N 64)
813- do not insist on CD #1 (at boot-time) if there is no 'CD #' marker
814- amend format-and-kludge-vfat; now, it will not abort if it cannot
815 find its entry in mountlist; it doesn't need to find the entry
816 anyway, except to check that the kludge works (which it does)
817- if user chooses to use Mindi's failsafe 2.4.9 kernel, Mindi will load
818 Mindi's versions of user's modules at boot-time
819- make label-devices-as-necessary log its efforts
820- added e2label and tune2fs to deplist.txt
821- if you boot in Normal Mode, I'll call mondo-restore --interactive
822 instead of just mondo-restore
823- replaced K7-compatible 2.4.7 kernel with a 586-comp'ble 2.4.9 kernel
824- improved the post-run clean-up
825- force the copying/loading of isofs.o and ide-cd.o, which enhances
826 Mindi's support for kernels that have modular CD-ROM support
827- Interactive Mode offers to edit /tmp/mountlist.txt before running
828 mondo-restore (good idea from F. Boon)
829- /dev/hd[e-h]* have been added to the ramdisk
830- disabled Cuckoo and Bootstrap Modes (they weren't doing anything
831 anyway & were probably confusing some users)
832- removed 'edit mountlist?' question (because mondo-restore takes
833 care of that now, via a user-friendly mountlist editor)
834- included a copy of mondo-manual.html
835- only kludge /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 (if vfat, of course);
836 otherwise, use regular mkfs.vfat
837- use mkfs.dos if mkfs.vfat does not exist
838- moved some scripts from rootfs.tgz to Mondo's restore-scripts.tgz
839
840v0.38 (2001-08-18)
841- clarified the 'more than one kernel found' comment
842- updated the README to emphasize that the scripts are deprecated
843- when displaying mountlist on screen, make it easier to read
844- changed most 'echo's to 'LogIt()'s; log most screen output to
845 /var/log/mindi.log
846- user can now use a stock 2.4.7 kernel (which comes with Mindi)
847 if the user's distro's kernel isn't right for a boot disk
848
849v0.37 (2001-08-11)
850 - changed the boot screen a little bit
851- changed the "cannot boot from CD-ROM" message (more informative now)
852- if an 'insmod'ed module cannot be found, warn but don't abort
853- that whole loop-mount/extract tgz to ramdisk thing --- if it fails,
854 abort, don't try to continue; also, ask if loopfs is supported by
855 kernel (if not, that might explain the error)
856- in addition to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules, also search
857 /root/oss/modules for kernel modules (Phillip Deackes)
858- run syslog and klogd at restore-time, to pipe sys & knl messages to
859 /tmp/mondo-restore.log
860- default restore-time boot mode is now 'interactive' (unless the
861 disk is a 1.72MB, in which case default mode is still 'expert')
862- if CDROM can't find itself (long story, re: El Torito) then the
863 script will say, "Your kernel is b0rken." This will reduce the
864 number of erroneous error reports that I receive from users
865- working on implementing Cuckoo Mode again
866
867v0.36 (2001-08-03)
868- testing it with LM8, RH71 and Slack8
869- explicitily exluding /mnt/floppy and /floppy from mountlist.txt
870- warn if afio not found (Mondo needs afio)
871- optional --custom <temp dir> <out dir> switch added, to let the user
872 specify where the temp dirs and created images will be stored
873- changed /sbin/init to install modules _before_ trying to mount
874 CD-ROM (David Granz)
875- create a gawk->awk shortcut at restore-time if necessary
876- specifically exclude /dev/fd0h1440 and /dev/fd0H1440 from mountlist
877- removed silly "was CD inserted?" message
878
879v0.35 (2001-07-31)
880- if LILO fails, it writes its errors to the screen
881- use user's boot.b and LILO instead of Mindi's
882- tarball/RPM no longer includes boot.b or lilo
883- mke2fs' output will be echoed to screen, if an error occurs
884- doubled the -N inode allocations and removed some of the -i inode
885 fiddles, just in case they are making Red Hat 7.1 choke
886
887v0.34 (2001-07-25)
888- includes patch to rid Mindi of its dependence on /dev/loop devices
889 (Bill Davidsen)
890- includes patch from 0ystein Skalsem, to fix a disk-formatting problem
891- warns if kernel is 2.4.0-2.4.5; encourages user to upgrade
892
893v0.33 (2001-07-20)
894- excludes all devices containing ':/' (i.e. NFS mountlists)
895- the FORMAT/SYS replacement, "format-and-kludge-vfat" now writes
896 its logfile to /tmp/format-and-kludge-vfat.log
897- /etc/fstab now mounts floppies for read/write access by default
898- format-and-kludge-vfat should only write to log once now
899- added vi, top to deplist.txt
900- updated the rootfs.tgz's README
901- mountlist is written to screen as well as mountlist.txt
902- tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
903- changed 'mkfs' lines, to format the loop-mounted files instead of the
904 device nodes which makes Mindi work better with kernels 2.4.6+
905- Mindi can now handle kernels of up to 930K in size
906- sped up the process of spreading data files across data disks
907 by approx 20%
908
909v0.32 (2001-07-18)
910- software RAID is now supported
911- added the 'raidtools' binaries to deplist.txt
912- add /etc/fstab and /etc/raidtab to deplist.txt
913- added /dev/md* to the ramdisk's /dev directory
914- modified MakeMountlist() to calculate correctly the sizes of
915 RAID partitions, if they are present in /etc/fstab
916- moved the 'LOOPDEVICE=...' code into the regular main() section
917- install-additional-tools makes a softlink '/etc/raidtab' that points
918 to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/raidtab; also, '/etc/fstab.orig' that points
919 to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/fstab
920- added line to 'install-additional-tools' that will delete the
921 dummy modprobe before installing data from datadisk(s)
922- mkdir -p $outdir at the beginning, just in case...
923
924v0.31 (2001-07-16)
925 - included DoJ's patch to make Mindi play more nicely with devfs
926- slightly better install.sh and README
927
928v0.30 (2001-07-15)
929- added klogd and syslogd to deplist.txt
930- can now cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" entries in /etc/fstab
931- should ignore NFS-mounted partitions now
932
933v0.29 (2001-07-14)
934- stopped the 'modprobe' errors that used to occur at the beginning;
935 they didn't mean anything but they did worry some novice users
936- removed losetup from rootfs.tgz (wasn't doing anything useful)
937- removed the 'txt-or-gui' stuff from Mindi (never used it anyway)
938- added clear to deplist.txt
939- moved rootfs.tgz's "mondo/" scripts to Mondo's "restore-scripts.tgz"
940 tarball; tarball will be untarred and contents added to the
941 data disks at run-time, if Mindi finds the tarball
942- if user lacks fd0u1722 but has fd0h1722 then use the latter
943- boot-up msg is more informative
944- fixed obscure bug in find-and-mount-cdrom
945- better at coping with hda1/2/3/4 (normal people use hda1/5/6/7 but
946 if you really want to exhaust your primaries, well hey, your life)
947- the 'outstring sucks!' message is now more informative
948
949v0.28 (2001-07-07)
950- if AddFileToDir() is called with a file that does not exist, Mindi
951 warns but does not abort
952- should work with gzipped modules (which end in '.o.gz') and
953 NVidia modules (which don't end in anything)
954- should work with Red Hat's issue.net now
955- misc. cosmetic changes to Mondo boot-time and restore-phase scripts,
956 to make the visual output cleaner & more legible
957- insist-on-cd retracts the CD tray after asking for next CD, in case
958 the user did not close the drive before pressing <enter>
959- if unable to create 1.72MB boot disk then warn but do not abort
960- put creation date on the boot-up screen
961- create data disks with tarballs up to 1700KB in size; tries harder
962 to fill each data disk to the brim
963- changed the call to make ext3 partitions; now, it uses a call to
964 mkfs -t ext3 -j -Jsize=10 -q <device> (as requested by ext3 manual)
965- tested w/ext3; works fine
966- install-additional-tools doesn't call sync until after all softlinks
967 have been finalized; that's to make sure we call the _right_ sync
968- ramdisk is now (size of all files in data disks PLUS 8192) KB
969- RPM and SRPM published
970- mount CDROM at start of untar-me, just in case it wasn't mounted
971- when restoring selectively, log the archives that have matches
972 & the number of matches (inc. if zero)
973
974v0.26 (2001-07-05)
975- has been tested with XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, ext2 and vfat
976- compatible (but not tested) with ext3
977- better at finding your kernel, even if you have several kernels
978 of the same version (now checks the build date, too)
979- better file-spreading algorithm; a little faster; much more reliable
980- includes a copy of LILO, to make the boot disks properly
981- tells you how big the tarballs are, when it assembles them
982- compare-me uses 'insist-on-cd' instead of internal subroutine
983- it looks as if Mindi can actually cope with 920K kernels now :)
984- fixed some silly multi-CD bugs that would stop big files from being
985 restored if they were spread across CD's
986
987v0.25 (2001-07-04)
988- uses its own copy of lilo
989- removed all "~" (backup copies) from rootfs.tgz
990- updated the rootfs's README - stablilo-me, not hack-me
991- improved the formatting of the lilo.conf as it is created
992- replace all libc5 tools with libc6 (user's) tools at restore-time
993- added diff to deplist.txt
994- copy io.sys and msdos.sys (if found) to data disk(s) at
995 run-time; softlinks them to /*.sys at boot-time
996- fixed some vfat formatting-related issues w/Embleer (always tricky);
997 the kludge's error-handling is better and its exit is more graceful
998- say 'type nuke to restore automatically' in msg if Mondo called me
999- backup all modules, not just the ones present/loaded at run-time;
1000 the loaded modules go on boot disk but ALL go on data disk
1001- reduced the max data per disk from 1700 to 1680, to suit ext2's needs
1002- DidMondoCallMe() replaces 'ps ax | grep | blah blah'
1003- includes user's /etc/termcap and /usr/bin/pico on disk(s)
1004- cosmetic changes to restore-time scripts (spaces, newlines, etc.)
1005- pipe kernel's msgs to /var/log/messages
1006- make sure /etc/lilo.conf is 600 (RW by root only)
1007
1008v0.24 (2001-07-03)
1009- can accommodate a kernel >900KB in size
1010- generates lilo.conf on-the-fly; no default/template file anymore
1011- copies io.sys and msdos.sys to the CD (if you have them)
1012- add the embleer tarballs to mindi-0.xx.tgz, so that users can
1013 format and make bootable msdos/Win9x partitions
1014- added printf and hdparm to deplist.txt
1015- incorporated Bruno Cornec's Mondo 0.991 scripts in Mindi
1016- separated README into README, INSTALL and TODO
1017- fixed silly {ramdisk}/sbin/InsistOnCD bug
1018- took out mke2fs and libext from rootfs.tgz
1019- rootfs.tgz's "/etc/bashrc" now includes /usr/share/mindi
1020- compare-mode uses IDE optimization to speed things up
1021- don't quibble over resizing partitions if <2MB difference
1022- fixed silly InsistOnCD bug
1023
1024v0.23 (2001-07-02)
1025- don't copy *.mdsg to boot floppy image
1026- fixed erroneous 'cannot make ISO image' error message
1027- can accommodate a kernel as large as 890K
1028- now uses lilo, not syslinux (lilo works better w/2.88MB boot images)
1029- creates & formats disk images on the fly (no more .img.gz templates)
1030- boot disks are formatted ext2, like the data disks
1031- creates 1.72MB and El Torito 2.88MB boot floppies/images
1032- if called by Mondo, doesn't list images or offer to copy to FDD/CDRw
1033- includes the distro's name and kernel version in LILO's message
1034
1035v0.22 (2001-07-01)
1036- don't add a ramdisk; use rootfs & that's it
1037- dependency-calculator runs approx. twice as fast as in v0.20
1038- tested with Linux Mandrake 8.0; works well, if you recompile
1039 kernel to include floppy disk support (which LM8's kernel does not)
1040- supports bigger kernels now, up to 900K in size
1041- deplist.txt may now include directories, not just files
1042- ignores kernel filenames that are hyperlinks
1043- uses awk instead of gawk; drop the awk/gawk-finding thing
1044- uses gzip, not bzip2; dropped bzip2, mv, ls to make rootfs smaller
1045- copies user's /dev/fd0* devices to boot disk
1046- calls Mindi's copy of syslinux, not user's copy
1047- use modules' paths, e.g. instead of just 'insmod fubar', use
1048 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac117/vfat/fubar.o'
1049- in boot.msg, XXXXX is part 1 of the 2nd line, YYYYY is part 2 of
1050 the 2nd line, and ZZZZZ is Mindi's version# (in the 1st line)
1051
1052v0.21 (2001-06-30)
1053- df, du, find, lsmod, rmmod have been removed from rootfs.tgz
1054- at boot-time, inserts kernel modules w/user's original parameters
1055- deletes the slices after recombining them & restoring the files
1056- includes the MINDI_VER version number in boot.msg
1057- if boot disk is too small, lists the files & which one is too big
1058- syslinux now waits 10 seconds before booting floppy
1059- 'insert-all-my-modules' is copied to rootfs, not to a data disk
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