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[261]1# $Id: ChangeLog 427 2006-02-23 18:48:54Z bcornec $
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[261]3MINDI CHANGES
4
[427]51.07 (2006-02-23)
[294]6- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds
7 (Bruno Cornec)
8- init revamped (removed unnecessary second general module loading phase,
9 start NFS appropriately depending on PXE or simple NFS)
10 (Andree Leidenfrost)
11- Changed module 'nfsacl' to 'nfs_acl' (Andree Leidenfrost)
12- Mindi/DiskSize is gone (Bruno Cornec)
13- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed
14 (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
15- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
16- Bug fix for chown in install.sh (JeffS)
17- CHANGES renamed also in install.sh now (Bruno Cornec)
[427]18- rpmlint cleanups
19- Get mindi to look for analyze-my-lvm in it's library directory MINDI_LIB (See also Debian bug #351446.)
20- mindi only deletes freshly created 1440kb images in case of error (See also Debian Bug #348966.)
21 (Andree Leidenfrost)
22- try standard grub-install in grub-MR restore script before trying anything fancy
23 (Andree Leidenfrost)
24- busybox mount should be called with -o ro for PXE (Make RHEL 3 works in PXE
25with a 2.6 failsafe kernel now available)
26 (Bruno Cornec)
27- Fix mindi for 2.6 Failsafe support
28 (Bruno Cornec)
29- mindi now depends on grep >= 2.5 (for -m option)
30 (Marco Puggelli/Bruno Cornec)
31- Fix a bug in LVM context for RHEL4 in GetValueFromField
32 (Rémi Bondoin/Bruno Cornec)
33- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)
34- mindi now supports x86_64 natively (Bruno Cornec)
35- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds
36 (Bruno Cornec)
[294]37
[261]381.06 (2005-12-23)
[157]39- mindi manpage added (Andree Leidenfrost)
40- clean up remaining mount points, mindi.err at the end (Wolfgang Rosenauer)
41- fix bugs for SuSE distro around tar, tr and find arguments order
42 (Wolfgang Rosenauer)
[261]43- new busybox.net version used for better PXE support (Bruno Cornec)
[157]44- USB keyboard support (Bruno Cornec)
45- -p should now work with ISO/PXE/NFS modes (Bruno Cornec)
[195]46- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance)
47 (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
48- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball)
49 (Bruno Cornec)
[261]50- install script rewritten and used for RPM build, with new layout
51 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
[196]52- use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
[261]53- use MONDO_LIB exported by mondoarchive instead of MONDO_HOME guessed
54 (Bruno Cornec)
55- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0,
[267]56 mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
[261]57- VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
58- VMPlayer support
59- Code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements
60 (Wolfgang Rosenauer/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec
61- New switches for PXE mode (ping & ipconf, Cf README.pxe)
62 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
63- mindi-kernel added to SVN (Bruno Cornec)
[157]64
[124]651.05 (2005-11-19)
66- Bug fix for ldd output incorrectly handled, leading to "grep not found" error
67 (Andree Leidenfrost)
68- NFS now works in interactive mode, and nolock problems are solve
69 (Andree Leidenfrost)
70- IA-64 support is now working for rhel 3
71 (Bruno Cornec)
72- add MINDI_CONF to the mindi LOGFILE
73 (Philippe De Muyter)
74- Speed up fdisk'ing dev/ida raid devices
75 (Philippe De Muyter)
[102]76
[1]771.04
78- support exec-shield
79- added 'ide-generic' module to IDE modules in mindi to ensure that kernels
80 with fully modularised IDE sub-system boot
81- rewrote script 'wait-for-petris' to ensure that petris actually starts and
82 can be restarted reliably
83- fixed syntax error in mindi where a wrong delimiter is used in and sed call
84 when processing file '/etc/issue.net'
85- removed '#!/bin/bash' from file 'rootfs/etc/bashrc' (bashrc get sourced, not
86 executed)
87- removed executable flag from:
88 - 'rootfs/etc/ld.so.cache'
89 - 'rootfs/root/.profile'
90
91
921.03
93- better support of SLES 8
94
95
961.02
97- better kernel-level logging
98- added ACL, xattr binaries to deplist.txt
99- fixed obscure bug which occasionally stopped mindi from correctly finding
100 and documenting all LVM2 LVM-on-RAID volumes
101
102
1031.01
104- added ide_tape and other modules to mindi's config detection
105- unmount errant ramdisk ($mtpt) if fail to create boot floppy
106- better support of ISO dirs at restore-time (Conor Daly)
107
108
1091.00
110- first 1.0x release
111- catch Ctrl-Alt-Del; trigger soft reset
112- better support of SuSE 9.1
113- added mdadm to deplist.txt
114- better detection of multiple Mindis (Martin Fürstenau)
115- don't complain if just a Mindi boot CD & not a platform for Mondo
116- updated busybox to 1.0.0pre10
117- removed uClibc
118- add memtest support
119- 2.6 kernel support
120- removed Embleer files (Andree Leidenfrost)
121- LVM v2 support for 2.6 (Takeru Komoriya)
122- added kernel-only floppy support, to accommodate really big kernels
123- updated+rebuilt busybox
124- added star support
125- mount /sys at boot-time
126- better 64-bit and 2.6 kernel support
127- better LVM, failsafe kernel support (Jim Richard)
128- use LILO, not raw kernel, on 1.4MB boot floppy
129- record names of unsaved modules for future reference
130- enlarged ramdisk by 8MB
131
132v0.95
133- changed some '==' to '=' --- now more RH6-friendly
134- allow absolute pathnames again in deplist
135- disable multifunc cd thing
136- better Gentoo support (Bill)
137- better OnStream support
138- better Slackware support (Laurenz)
139- added partimagehack-static to deplist.txt
140- recompiled Busybox - 10k smaller, better stack-handling
141- fixed boot screen typo
142- added support for 'auto' fs format
143- better devfs support for Mandrake users
144- better Debian+LVM support (Ralph Grewe)
145- updated analyze-my-lvm to handle floating-point gigabyte -L values
146
147
148v0.94
149- altered rootfs's /dev entry to stop cvs from becoming confused
150- tweaked MAX_COMPRESSED_SIZE
151- added multi-function CD support to mindi and sbin/post-init
152- re-mount root as rw just in case
153- ask user to remove last data (floppy) disk if nec. (Tom Mortell)
154- added support for 5th column in mountlist.txt for labels
155- added symlinks.tgz
156- suppress erroneous error messages re: failsafe kernel
157
158
159v0.93
160- added cciss.o to SCSI_MODS
161- if format type is (e.g.) ext3,ext2 then use 1st entry
162- re-enabled fsck*
163- if cciss in use then enable it at boot-time
164- added /dev/ataraid/* to boot disk via ataraid.tgz (Luc S.)
165- better ISO support
166- tweaked mindi to use 10-15% fewer floppies
167- added RUN_AFTER_INITIAL_BOOT_PHASE var at start of Mindi, which
168 user may use to force Mindi to run command before bootstrapping
169 to aux data disks or CD - e.g. 'echo engage > /proc/scsi/something'
170- allow for Debian & other Stiefkinder that use 'none', not 'swap'
171 as the mountpoint of the swap partition
172- removed afio dependency
173- added RUN_AFTER_BOOT_PHASE_COMPLETE to let user specify a command
174 to be run by Mindi after it boots but before it runs mondorestore
175- re-worked install.sh and tarball not to use tgz's
176- cleared up the boot msg
177- updated busybox to 0.60.5; updated uClibc to 0.9.19
178- add #!/bin/sh to start of insert-all-my-modules
179- fixed obscure bug in install-additional-tools
180- change grep -m1 to grep | head -n1, for Debian users
181- moved lib.tar.bz2 and vmlinuz to mindi-kernel tarball/rpm
182
183
184v0.92
185- fixed LVM/RAID bugs (Brian Borgeson)
186- if bad lilo, give more verbose error before quitting
187- added mt and perl to deplist.txt
188- insmod ide-cd, cdrom, isofs, just in case
189- boot-time tmpfs ramdisk is now 40m (was 34m)
190- cleaned up logs
191- iso mode now calls Interactive
192- make SizeOfPartition() more Debian-friendly (Andree Leidenfrost)
193- clean up some calls to grep, esp. partition_mountpt=...
194- corrected some bashisms, to suit Debian ped- er, users
195- made first line refer to bash, not sh, to make sure
196 the Debian people know Mindi requires bash, not hs
197- changed grep -v "#" and grep -vx "#.*" to grep -vx " *#.*"
198- disabled code which would make Mindi use sfdisk instead of fdisk
199 if it looked as if Debian's fdisk would misbehave
200
201
202v0.90
203- updated ResolveSoftlinks() to work better with b0rkn Gentoo devfs /dev
204- patched analyze-my-lvm (Benjamin Mampaey)
205- detect built-in boot.b files in lilo
206- return w/err, don't abort, if Matt Nelson's RH8 system is farked
207- better at finding isolinux.bin
208- better at analyzing dependencies when running on broken distributions
209- try harder to boot from CD, even if tape fails
210- added ADDITIONAL_BOOT_PARAMS to be sent to kernel
211- better resolution of relative softlinks, leading to fewer
212 duplicates on data disks and therefore fewer data disks
213- detect Debian+devfs; use sfdisk instead of fdisk in that
214 eventuality, to work around yet another of Debian's warts
215- removed /lib/libuuid.* from rootfs.tgz
216- fixed vi
217- mindi now uses gawk --traditional (making gawk behave in a functionally
218 identical way to awk) - PASS; great, so now Debian needs to fix its awk :)
219- removed / from list of dirs accessed when trying to resolve deplist entry
220- spinner bugfix; handle odd LABELs properly (Tom Mortell)
221
222
22312-08-2002
224""""""""""
225v0.90 (DEVEL)
226- new stable branch
227- EXTRA_SPACE=16384
228- fixed deplist.txt
229
230
23112-02-2002
232""""""""""
233v0.72 (DEVEL)
234- misc code clean-ups
235- save boot device's boot sector
236- detect and beware Compaq diagnostic partitions
237- better handling of devfs V non-devfs kernels and boot devs
238- trimmed to busybox 0.60.3 binary on boot disk
239- mindi now resides in /usr/local/bin
240- removed lilo from dependencies
241- more Gentoo-friendly
242
243
24411-17-2002
245""""""""""
246v0.71 (DEVEL)
247- if your kernel's builddate doesn't match any of the kernels in
248 your /boot directory then fudge the issue & find the closest
249 match (*grumble* Debian)
250- scan tape & CD at start, to force inclusion of modules on boot device
251- double EXTRA_SPACE if >7 disks
252- slimmer, more lithesome logfile
253- now accepts --findkernel
254- line 1982 - dd count=24000 should be count=$ramdisksize (Andras Korn)
255- better handling of non-Linux partitions on DevFS-enabled kernels
256- fixed Debian/ramdisksize/bloat problem (Johannes Franken)
257- fixed 2.4.20/fdisk eccentricity (Alistair Stevens)
258- updated kernel to 2.4.18-mdk6
259- generate mountlist in dev-abetical order ;)
260- fixed minor bug in .spec file
261- better at finding /boot/boot.b if your distro breaks the de facto standard
262- fixed minor bug in MakeMountlist
263- fixed install.sh
264- cleaned up deplist.txt
265- added rudimentary -v / -version flag
266- line 1180 or so --- duplicate mindi.iso entires --- fixed
267- added /bin/[ - a softlink to /bin/sh
268- ListAllPartitions() - sanity fix (KP)
269- fixed .spec bug
270- better feedback
271- added Markus's RAID patch
272- ListAllPartitions() - include /mnt/win* (Hugo)
273
274
27509-08-2002
276""""""""""
277v0.70 (UNSTABLE)
278- better logging by dependency-calculating code
279- better handling of dependencies, specifically softlinks
280- if called by mondo then use mondo's temp dir as our temp dir too
281- changed gawk to $AWK in a few places, to allow for Debian
282- added host* config files to deplist
283- added tftp, ifconfig to busybox
284- added RPC support to uClibc
285- cleaned up creation of Mondo-Mindi configuration file
286- fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling
287 multiple, same-version kernels gracefully
288- cleaned up deplist.txt
289- receive 'DIFFERENTIAL' variable from Mondo
290- better Debian compatibility, esp. w/detection of ver# (Hector Alvarez)
291- better devfs support; call fgrep in places instead of grep (Andrew Korn)
292- fixed analyze-my-lvm (Ralph Gruwe)
293
294
29507-14-2002
296""""""""""
297v0.65-1
298- moved 50K of stuff from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
299- added x11-tools.tgz option
300- updated /dev/console and /dev/tty0 (Paul Stevens)
301- cleaned up /mnt/groovy-stuff V /tmp/tmpfs code
302- catch sigint, sighup, etc.
303- fixed LILO-related message.txt mistake
304- .spec file clean-up; automation; config file (Carl Wilhem Soderstrom)
305
306
30707-14-2002
308""""""""""
309v0.64-1
310- fixed RH7.3 readonly bug
311- improved nfs config file creation
312- search more locations for isolinux.bin
313- added isonuke option
314- faster data disk creation
315- better DevFS support (Hector Alvarez, DuckX)
316- nfs-related fix (Hans Lie)
317- abort if vfat filesystem present but mkfs.vfat missing
318- removed softlink to pico
319- allow Mondo to say no compression will be used
320- added [ to ramdisk
321- tar data disks with -b [block size] of 32k
322- don't autoboot to 'RESTORE' screen - it's scary!
323- let user choose lilo or syslinux as boot loader
324- added syslinux support
325- cleaned up message screens
326
327
32806-04-2002
329""""""""""
330v0.63-7
331- improved logging
332
333
33406-02-2002
335""""""""""
336v0.63-6
337- sped it up a bit
338- fixed ISO creation bug
339
340
34105-22-2002
342""""""""""
343v0.63-5
344- fixed RAID mountlist bug (Daniel Grandjean)
345- better at German kbd support (Klaus Guntermann)
346- no longer abort if MONDO_PATH cannot be discerned
347- updated .spec file (Jesse Keating)
348
349
35005-06-2002
351""""""""""
352v0.63-4
353- added less.bin to deplist.txt
354- copy mondo-restore.cfg configuration file to /var/cache/mondo-archive
355- increased EXTRA_SPACE to 16384
356- fixed bug in -H (RESTORE) function
357
358
35904-25-2002
360""""""""""
361v0.63-2
362- added mkdir -p to fix mountlist.txt-copying bug (Bruno Vidal)
363- made sure mindi.iso (for tape users) copies kernel to [cd dir]/vmlinuz
364
365
36604-23-2002
367""""""""""
368v0.63
369- minor cosmetic improvements
370- improved homedir-locating code
371- make sure the kernel is copied to [cd build dir]/vmlinuz
372
373
37404-08-2002
375""""""""""
376v0.62
377- keep certain /dev directories compressed until boot-time, to allow
378 Mindi to support larger kernels
379- cleaned up logging a lot
380- better detection of the kernel currently in use
381- added /dev/nst* to ramdisk
382- amend isolinux.cfg to specify the correct ramdisk size
383
384
38503-31-2002
386""""""""""
387v0.60
388- bootable CD's now use ISOLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
389- abort if isolinux not found
390- abort if multiple copies of Mindi found lying around
391- include mountlist.txt in ramdisk
392
393
39403-21-2002
395""""""""""
396v0.59
397- change sbin/init's Die() function (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
398- improve friendliness of kernel-related warning msg (Andy Glass)
399- added s/w switch re: making floppies (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
400
401
40203-10-2002
403""""""""""
404v0.58-r7
405- excluded two unused vars (Carl Soderstrom)
406
407
40803-03-2002
409""""""""""
410v0.58-r6
411- reassemble large data/library files who have older 'mv' code which doesn't
412 like to overwrite symlinks - affects older RH+Slack systems (Andrew Bulhak)
413- call /usr/bin/logger, not 'logger', in LogIt()
414- run chmod 755 `which start-nfs` before running start-nfs
415
416
41702-24-2002
418""""""""""
419v0.58-r5
420- pathname problem fixed (Fred Feirtag)
421- patch to Debianize mindi a bit (H�tor Garc� �varez)
422- removed mondo-manual.html
423- moved /dev/{cciss,ida,rd} from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
424- cleaned up the refs to analyze-my-lvm a bit (Hugo)
425- sped up disk-creation by 20-30%
426- make sure mondo-restore.cfg is on data disk as well as boot disk
427- added support for -C (cdstream) mode
428
429
43002-18-2002
431""""""""""
432v0.58-r4
433- quash error if /opt not found
434- use /tmp/groovy-stuff instead of /mnt/groovy-stuff for
435 handling data disks and their contents, for tape users
436
437
43802-17-2002
439""""""""""
440v0.58-r3
441- misc enhancements
442- uses self-resizing ramdisk (tmpfs) for /tmp
443- allows Mondo to exclude certain devices from mountlist
444- incorporated .spec patch (Ian Kent)
445- replaced &> /dev/null with > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
446- added vi to busybox again
447
448
44902-11-2002
450""""""""""
451v0.58-r2
452- fixed errant tar warning
453- replaced libc5 with uClibc
454- compiled busybox and open against uClibc
455- moved minor scripts+tools from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
456- Mindi can now accommodate a kernel of up to 1290KB in size
457- no longer insists on cdrecord being present
458
459
46002-10-2002
461""""""""""
462v0.58
463- more pointed error messages
464- fixed silly 'cp' error (Markus Marquardt)
465- use type C's embleer file for type B Windows partitions
466- increased EXTRA_SPACE from 4096 to 8192
467- cosmetic bugfixes
468- nfs users boot into nfs options by default
469
470
47102-05-2002
472""""""""""
473v0.57
474- abort if mounted partition is specified as an imagedev
475- understand 'FAILSAFE' as kernel alternative
476- added analyze-my-lvm to tools available thru PATH
477- better discovery of locale and keymap file (Claude Mah�
478- compatible with 1.2x and the new 1.38+ stuff
479- better 'bug-me' script (Troff)
480
481
48202-01-2002
483""""""""""
484v0.56
485- compatible with Mondo v1.5x devel branch
486- mindi's softlink now goes in /usr/sbin; was /usr/bin
487- include nfs.o, nfsd.o, lockd.o and sunrpc.o on data disks if available
488- patched .spec file to make it easier to change installdir (Ian Mortimer)
489- updated README
490- moved many global vars to start of script
491- better at finding US kbd maps
492- migrating to a single configuration file, /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg, for
493 Mondo users; file is not in use yet but is there for future expansion
494
495
49601-28-2002
497""""""""""
498v0.55
499- MINDI_HOME and MONDO_HOME defined at start of each source file, making
500 it easier to relocate Mindi and Mondo if desired
501- tries to mount /dev/hd[a-h] at boot-time, looking for CD-ROM; was hd[a-d]
502- re-enabled the msg asking user to upgrade LILO if v21.6
503- Lin/Win users are much, _much_ less likely to run out of disk space now
504 when restoring from backups (Carlos Molina)
505- patch from Andrej Borsenkow to help w/Mandrake 8.1
506- disabled ramdisk free space checker (some distros don't like it)
507
508
50901-25-2002
510""""""""""
511v0.54
512- don't abort if kernel is too big for 1.72MB floppy
513- better handling of eccentric distros and their keybd layouts
514- cosmetic fixes
515- sprinkled comments liberally inside deplist.txt
516- added gawk and awk to deplist
517- lilo has been added to .spec file
518- changed a couple of FatalError()'s to Die()'s
519- better TurboLinux 7 / LVM compatibility
520
521
52201-20-2002
523""""""""""
524v0.53
525- better support of non-Red Hat, non-Debian keyboard resource files
526- cleaned up /sbin/init's output
527- replaced libc5 mount with user's own 'mount'
528- updated embleer.C.bz2
529- missing /dev/hdb2 found & replaced (thanks, Troff)
530- populated /dev/rd and /dev/ida on ramdisk (Michael Eisenberg)
531- improved SizeOfPartition() function
532- improved TryToFindKernelPath() function
533- don't offer NFS users Nuke Mode
534- finds and uses lilo.real if user is using Debian, a distro which
535 installs a shell script where the lilo executable should go
536- improved support for XFS users who opt to use failsafe kernel
537- uses user's lsmod, depmod, insmod, etc.
538- fixed freeze-up resulting from missing 'cat $mappath' command
539- mount tmpfs at /tmp/tmpfs for mondo-restore's benefit
540- try to create /dev/fd0u1722 if it is missing from /dev
541- added .spec file to tarball
542
543
54401-10-2002
545""""""""""
546v0.52-2
547- fixed a bug in the handling of non-English keyboard maps
548- force failsafe kernel to provide reiserfs.o, xfs.o, jfs.o, ext2.o,
549 ext3.o and loop.o at boot-time, just in case
550- added /dev/sr[0-3] devices
551- copy LAST_FILELIST_NUMBER to /tmp, for compatibility with Mondo v1.3x
552- incorporates NFS-related settings, if supplied by Mondo v1.3x
553- replace busybox's mount with standard libc5 mount ater restoring
554 tools from floppies: NFS mounting requires full mount
555- always make mindi.iso
556
557
55801-06-2002
559""""""""""
560v0.52-1
561- ramdisk's size has been tweaked
562- if script 'bootstrap' is found at boot-time then execute it
563- use tty8 to show mondo's output log
564- use tty7 to offer a game of Petris (if it exists on disk)
565- be sure to use i386-only keymaps
566- if LILO's "/tmp/dev.0" error occurs then abort & tell user to reboot
567- /sbin and /usr/sbin added temporarily to PATH when Mindi runs
568- if Mondo asks then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode
569- if Mondo's tmpdir has post-nuke.tgz in it then extract it and
570 incorporate its files in the data disks
571- losetup /dev/loop0 -d before calling LILO (Norm Crowfoot)
572- if keyboard mapping dir (usu. /lib/kbd or /usr/lib/kbd) cannot be
573 found then don't abort; simply tell the user the default keyboard
574 mapping will be used
575- added /dev/hd[a,b,c,d][17-24] to the rootfs tarball
576- won't use LILO's optimizations when creating boot floppy; however,
577 optimizations are used on CD unless --broken-bios in call to Mondo
578- won't write data disks to start of tape; lets Mondo do that
579- tweaked how Mindi moves all.tar.gz around, to make it more
580 Mondo-friendly
581- tweaked Mindi's disk-splitter
582- user must unmount /dev/loop0 before calling Mindi: LILO insists...
583- added NFS-related entries to deplist.txt
584- if not called by Mondo then don't let user choose Interactive/Nuke/
585 whatever; just offer Expert
586
587
58812-25-2001
589""""""""""
590v0.51-1
591 - removed libm.* from rootfs.tgz
592 - replaced sh with busybox's ash
593 - upgraded busybox to 0.60-2; pared it down, too
594 - include tape-related modules on boot disk, if backing up to tape
595 - creates a tape-friendly tarball containing tools+modules
596 - reassembly of tools+libraries is more reliable now
597 - streamlined deplist.txt
598 - give user their localized keyboard layout at boot-time
599 - fix some cosmetic bugs
600
601
60212-19-2001
603""""""""""
604v0.50-4
605 - log Mindi's version# in the event of a fatal error
606 - make Mindi's boot-time output more esthetically pleasing
607 - if filesystem is type 'image', according to Mondo, then in filelist
608 its partition type will be listed as the hexadecimal string (e.g.
609 'b', '83', etc.) and the partition mountpoint will be 'image'
610
611
61212-15-2001
613""""""""""
614v0.50-2
615 - support for newer features in Mondo v1.3x
616
617
618v0.50-1
619 - correctly lists RAID constituent partitions in mountlist
620 - breaks compatibility with Mondo v1.2x
621 - if user's fstab has weird line(s) then ignore; don't abort
622 - working on CDROM_MODS, trying to make it work on Stewart Charnell's
623 hardware setup
624 - cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-init a bit
625
626
627v0.48-2
628 - when insmod'g modules from ramdisk's root dir, use 'ls /*.o*'
629 (was 'ls /*.*') to find them
630 - if RAID controller(s) are detected then pause for 10s to let them
631 intialize by themselves (some 3ware RAID controllers require this)
632 - cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-ini; the former now controls
633 initialization of hardware, drivers, tools, etc. and the latter
634 runs mondo-restore if it exists
635 - better detection of and compatibility with SCSI CD-ROM drives
636 - chopsize is now 64KB; was 128KB
637 - cleaned up mindi's logging
638
639
640v0.48-1
641 - better logging of find-and-mount-cdrom's progress (to
642 /tmp/mondo-restore.log)
643 - somehow, lilo was re-enabled in deplist.txt; DISABLED (again *g*)
644 - added 'linear' to the list of modules Mindi always backs up
645 - if called by Mondo then pass the name & device of the user's boot
646 loader to the restore phase, by copying BOOTLOADER.* to the ramdisk
647 - if loading from floppies then try to mount CD-ROM a 2nd time after
648 extracting files from data floppies, just in case user is a CD user
649 who couldn't get their CD-ROM drive to work initially
650 - added fix to make sure /root/images/mindi is created (Charlie Root)
651 - aware of 'iso' boot mode, for future expansion
652
653
654v0.47
655 - added /dev/cdrom/cdrom[1-4] to the devices automatically excluded
656 from mountlist.txt
657 - added '-f-' to the end of most tar commands, to see if it fixes a
658 bug in some obscure Debian distros
659 - added network-related dependencies to deplist.txt
660 - if called by Mondo then don't write floppy images to disks; let
661 Mondo do that: less irritating for user
662 - if called by Mondo then do some clever tricks to add mondo-restore
663 and its dependencies (mondo-restore is now a dynamic executable)
664 - finally gotten klogd to squelch echoing of kernel msgs to console
665
666
667v0.46
668 - finally fixed that 'lib/modules/2.4.12-xfs not found' bug! :-D
669 - cosmetic changes and minor bugfixes
670 - excluded lilo.conf and lilo from deplist.txt; use user's copy instead
671 - if your fstab mentions a RAID partition but your raidtab doesn't then
672 Mindi will terminate in a sane manner with a sane error message
673 - fixed a bug in bug-me (heh, how ironic)
674 - include and run (sys)klogd to try to pipe kernel msgs to logfile
675 - call hdparm to speed up access to CD-ROM drive
676
677
678v0.45
679 - disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt
680 - include /etc/fstab in logfile
681 - removed lzop.* from aux-tools; should come from user's distro anyway
682 - tweaked data disk size and data disk formatting command
683 - make ISO bootable image (as well as floppies) when backing up to tape
684 - copy boot images (floppy + CD) from temp dir to /root/images/mindi
685 after making them, just in case the user wants them later
686 - added md5sum to deplist.txt
687 - added pico->vi softlink to ramdisk
688 - in the ramdisk's /etc/bashrc, added /usr/local/bin and
689 /usr/local/sbin to the PATH= command
690 - call insert-all-modules as background task; pause 3 seconds after
691 calling it, before proceeding <--- /sbin/init
692 - call to devfs has been moved to before call to post-init
693 - added 'md5sum -> busybox' softlink
694 - Mindi now uses busybox's printf, md5sum, mount, umount, vi
695 ...NB: I said, 'vi' :-) Now you have an editor again! :-)
696 - added lilo.real to deplist.txt, to allow for Debian's evil new distro
697 - added lzop to deplist.txt
698 - no longer including lzop in Mindi's tarball / RPM
699 - improved Mindi's error-reporting a little bit
700 - changed deplist.txt's /etc/* to just *
701 - restructured the calls in /sbin/post-init that reinitialize the LVM
702 and RAID modules
703 - if mkfs.ext2 is not in PATH then abort
704 - Mindi uses a 'filename cache' to speed itself up at run-time
705 (Jean-David Marrow)
706 - Red Hat 7.2 uses a weird /etc/issue.net; I've worked around it...
707 - tested with Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2
708
709
710v0.44
711 - at boot-time, activate LV's if they exist
712 - restructured deplist.txt a bit (cosmetic change)
713 - re-enabled fsck.* in deplist.txt
714 - analyze-my-lvm fails gracefully if you're not using LVM but inserted
715 the module anyway
716
717
718v0.43
719 - made Mindi work with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
720 - if mkisofs is not found, say so; don't just say, 'an error occurred
721 while I was trying to make an ISO image'
722 - when formatting and writing floppies, if /dev/fd0's size is
723 indeterminable then I'll use /dev/fd0H1440 instead
724 - make sure xfs.o, jfs.o, reiserfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o modules are
725 backed up (if they exist) to boot disks
726 - fixed a silly bug that stopped Mindi from handling its own modules
727 properly; only affects newbie users with broken kernels (i.e. the
728 very people that Mindi's failsafe kernel was meant to help!)
729 - added lzop (Marcus Oberhumer's file compressor) to aux-tools.tgz
730 - added Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch; if user uses the switch
731 (i.e. '--cd-recovery yes') then the CD will boot to a screen that
732 pauses until the user types RESTORE; then, it will enter Nuke Mode
733 - added Stephan Zegherd's "superformat" patch
734 - failsafe kernel is now 2.4.12 with XFS, JFS and lots of SCSI modules;
735 the addition of XFS and extensive SCSI support will increase the
736 size of Mindi's RPM / tarball significantly but I think it's worth it
737 - at boot-time, find out whether there are any RAID partitions; and if
738 there are, whether they are 'started' yet; if not, run raidstart to
739 start them at boot-time, before user can try to mount anything
740 - Mindi's failsafe kernel & modules are handled more elegantly now;
741 if you have raid1.o, scsi.o, etc. loaded at backup-time then Mindi
742 finds its corresponding modules in its tarball of failsafe modules
743 and stores them so that at boot-time you can do SCSI, RAID, etc.
744 - removed gawk, printf from deplist.txt
745
746
747v0.42
748 - make sure lvm-mod, raid0, raid1 and raid5 modules are backed up
749 - added 'you need a ramdisk' to FAQ
750 - changed the slice size from 20KB to 64KB; speeds up Mindi by 25%
751 and doesn't have any negative side-effects (...that I can see)
752 - when searching for your current kernel version, do not examine
753 a file if it does not exist (it sounds obvious, I know...)
754 - when asking user to send me a copy of their log file, point out
755 that it may contain info which they do not want me to see but that
756 they are SOL unless I can actually see their log file
757 - fixed a silly bug that would crop up when a Linux-Mandrake 8.1 user
758 would use a devfs-enabled kernel and RAID partitions at the same time
759 - plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
760 - data floppies are now 1.44MB each; boot floppy is still 1.72MB
761 - if binutils or libbinutils is not installed, abort
762 - fixed a bug which meant that some big files overwrote each other
763 at backup-time and caused library-related problems are boot-time
764 - enabled comments ('#') in deplist.txt
765 - disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt; user may re-enable the line if
766 s/he wants those tools available at boot-time
767 - tested successfully with the following distros
768 - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel
769 - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel
770 - better at guessing the size of swap partition
771 - drop minix tools from deplist; user can restore them if s/he wants
772 to use the minix filesystem
773 - don't backup _all_ cdrom modules (if backing up 'cdrom.o'); be
774 selective! ...minor bug in ListKerneModulePaths has been fixed
775 - if the user has two glibc libraries - one in /lib and one in
776 /lib/i686 - then Mindi will re-jig the softlinks so that only the
777 version in /lib is backed up, to save space on the data disks
778 - major rewrite of the code that copies the tools and libraries from
779 the data disks; prettier, faster and more stable (and did I mention
780 how kind it is to your hard-working hands?)
781 - better handling of crazy libraries and softlinks thereto
782 - new boot-time script, 'bug-me', copies user's logs to a floppy and
783 tells him/her to e-mail them to me if mondo-restore aborts
784 - ignore kernels named vmlinux (note the 'X'); traditionally, kernels
785 are named vmlinuz (note the 'Z') or something similar
786 - no longer backup all modules to CD/tape; just backup the ones loaded
787 at backup-time; this saves boot-time ramdisk space
788 - removed all references to LOOPDEVICE
789 - LVM is supported (experimental; watch this space...)
790 - included a tarball of 'sane' /dev/loop* nodes which will be extracted
791 and added to the boot disk; this helps maintain Mindi's backward-
792 compatibility with non-devfs kernels and distros
793 - when copying modules to boot or data disks, uncompress them first
794 if they are gzipped (some distros come with compressed modules)
795 - no longer copies all loaded modules to the 2.88 MB El Torito bootable
796 floppy image; instead, it copies FLOPPY_MODS to the 1.72 MB image,
797 CDROM_MODS to the 2.88 MB image, and _all_ modules that were loaded
798 at backup-time to the data disks
799 - supports tape streamers, in conjunction with Mondo
800 - uses busybox's sync again; let's see if that breaks anything...
801 - if Mondo is backing up to tape streamer then write the tape's size to
802 /tmp/TAPESIZE and the drive's device to /tmp/TAPEDEV-LIVES-HERE on
803 the ramdisk
804 - floppy disk modules (ide-floppy.o and floppy.o) now are copied
805 to the ramdisk, whether the user's kernel or the failsafe kernel
806 is being used
807
808
809v0.41
810 - excluded *.old from the 'boot.b' list when searching for boot.b
811 - updated Mindi's own failsafe kernel+modules to v2.4.10
812 - added umount to deplist again
813 - improved Mindi's support of modular kernels (esp. modular CD-ROM
814 drive and floppy disk drives)
815 - don't accuse Linux 2.4.10 users of having a 'buggy kernel'
816 - restored the libc5 versions of sync and umount (dropped from
817 deplist but also from busybox)
818 - fixed a lot of silly bugs related to incorporating Busybox in Mindi
819 - experimental LVM support
820 - added 'analyze-my-lvm' script to the tarball; Mindi uses it now
821 - able to recognize & record LVM mounts, adding them to the mountlist
822 - added the LVM executables (listed in the lvm-0.xx-i386.rpm) to
823 deplist.txt; they won't be added unless you have them and you won't
824 have them unless you're using LVM, so this is not 'bloat' IMO :)
825 - added date and sync to deplist again
826 - when working on LVM stuff, use 'echo y | pvcreate -ff' (was '..-f')
827 - amended format-...-kludge to allow for mountlists with >1
828 spaces between cols
829 checked the fsck.reiserfs is in deplist.txt (yes it is)
830 - incorporated busybox 0.60-1; now, Mindi is faster at run-time and
831 smaller at boot-time; you can fit a typical system onto 3 floppies;
832 also, a kernel up to 1MB in size (approx.) can now be accommodated
833 - supports kernels that have MODULAR support for CD-ROM's or floppies
834 - Mindi copies only the loaded modules to the data disks but it copies
835 _all_ modules to the CD, just in case
836 - thanks to busybox your floppy-based Mindi boot disk set should now be
837 able to accommodate a kernel of up to 1MB in size
838 - boot into Expert Mode unless boot disk was generated by Mondo
839 - exclude all softlinks from list of 'eligible' kernels
840 - exclude kernels with 'vmlinux' in their names
841 - removed A LOT of files from deplist.txt's dependency list; they are
842 listed in deplist.removed, in case you want to put them back :-)
843 - excludes libX11, libXext, libXi, libgtk, libgdk ALWAYS, whether you
844 add them to deplist.txt or not; [cancel this by editing line 485]
845 - rewrote AddFileToDir() to make it more efficient (but slower...)
846 - strip chaff from binaries; strip comments from bash scripts; strip
847 comments from /etc/termcap
848
849
850v0.40
851 - if you use a softlink to your CD dev, e.g. /dev/cdrecorder->scd0,
852 then Mindi should handle it properly now (i.e. not bomb out)
853 - if you have a large kernel & lots of modules loaded, Mindi will only
854 copy as many modules to the ramdisk as will _fit_ on a ramdisk that
855 will have to go alongside your kernel on a 2.88MB floppy disk
856 - if your kernel does not support loopfs, Mindi will say so & abort
857 - turned some warnings into fatal errors, to help the user to figure
858 out exactly why Mindi won't work on their kernel
859 - changed mke2fs -N24 to -N32, to see if it helps braindead distros
860 - Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
861 - gone back to the old 'insert-my-modules' for now; it's more reliable
862 - working on the 'insert-all-my-modules' script, to make it compatible
863 with a wider range of insane distros and kernels
864 - dropped the '-c' option from LILO call
865 - removed cdrecord, mkisofs, vi, route and diff from deplist.txt
866 - slowed down the 'split data between floppies' routine; made it
867 try harder to squeeze more data onto each floppy
868 - excluding nvidia modules from the "insert-all-my-modules" script
869 because it sometimes causes freeze-ups
870 - added code to copy your fstab, lilo.conf, etc. to a tarball which, in
871 the event of an error, Mindi will ask the user to e-mail me
872
873
874v0.39
875 - plays nicely with devfs, so long as your old /dev/hdX, /dev/sdX
876 softlinks are still there :-)
877 - if your swap partition isn't mounted, Mindi will decide that it is
878 125MB; it used to abort but now it just warns & makes a good guess
879 - testing the failsafe kernel & associated scripts
880 - only use lilo's "-c" option if NOT a 2.88MB floppy disk image
881 - copes better with .o, .gz, etc. module suffixes
882 - better 'loaded modules / not loaded modules' feedback at boot-time
883 - semi-forces isofs and ide-cd (not isofs.o and ide-cd.o); the former
884 will be more compatible with stock kernels - e.g. Red Hat, Mandrake;
885 also added vfat, fat & a few other modules to the list of 'foced'.
886 - removed the '-c' switch from the call to LILO (some BIOSes don't
887 like it very much)
888 - removed chaff from ramdisk's /etc/login.defs, saving approx 7K
889 - format the boot disks with -N 24 (was -N 64)
890 - do not insist on CD #1 (at boot-time) if there is no 'CD #' marker
891 - amend format-and-kludge-vfat; now, it will not abort if it cannot
892 find its entry in mountlist; it doesn't need to find the entry
893 anyway, except to check that the kludge works (which it does)
894 - if user chooses to use Mindi's failsafe 2.4.9 kernel, Mindi will load
895 Mindi's versions of user's modules at boot-time
896 - make label-devices-as-necessary log its efforts
897 - added e2label and tune2fs to deplist.txt
898 - if you boot in Normal Mode, I'll call mondo-restore --interactive
899 instead of just mondo-restore
900 - replaced K7-compatible 2.4.7 kernel with a 586-comp'ble 2.4.9 kernel
901 - improved the post-run clean-up
902 - force the copying/loading of isofs.o and ide-cd.o, which enhances
903 Mindi's support for kernels that have modular CD-ROM support
904 - Interactive Mode offers to edit /tmp/mountlist.txt before running
905 mondo-restore (good idea from F. Boon)
906 - /dev/hd[e-h]* have been added to the ramdisk
907 - disabled Cuckoo and Bootstrap Modes (they weren't doing anything
908 anyway & were probably confusing some users)
909 - removed 'edit mountlist?' question (because mondo-restore takes
910 care of that now, via a user-friendly mountlist editor)
911 - included a copy of mondo-manual.html
912 - only kludge /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 (if vfat, of course);
913 otherwise, use regular mkfs.vfat
914 - use mkfs.dos if mkfs.vfat does not exist
915 - moved some scripts from rootfs.tgz to Mondo's restore-scripts.tgz
916
917
918v0.38 08/18/2001
919 - clarified the 'more than one kernel found' comment
920 - updated the README to emphasize that the scripts are deprecated
921 - when displaying mountlist on screen, make it easier to read
922 - changed most 'echo's to 'LogIt()'s; log most screen output to
923 /var/log/mindi.log
924 - user can now use a stock 2.4.7 kernel (which comes with Mindi)
925 if the user's distro's kernel isn't right for a boot disk
926
927
928v0.37 08/12/2001
929 - changed the boot screen a little bit
930 - changed the "cannot boot from CD-ROM" message (more informative now)
931 - if an 'insmod'ed module cannot be found, warn but don't abort
932 - that whole loop-mount/extract tgz to ramdisk thing --- if it fails,
933 abort, don't try to continue; also, ask if loopfs is supported by
934 kernel (if not, that might explain the error)
935 - in addition to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules, also search
936 /root/oss/modules for kernel modules (Phillip Deackes)
937 - run syslog and klogd at restore-time, to pipe sys & knl messages to
938 /tmp/mondo-restore.log
939 - default restore-time boot mode is now 'interactive' (unless the
940 disk is a 1.72MB, in which case default mode is still 'expert')
941 - if CDROM can't find itself (long story, re: El Torito) then the
942 script will say, "Your kernel is b0rken." This will reduce the
943 number of erroneous error reports that I receive from users
944 - working on implementing Cuckoo Mode again
945
946
947v0.36 08/03/2001
948 - testing it with LM8, RH71 and Slack8
949 - explicitily exluding /mnt/floppy and /floppy from mountlist.txt
950 - warn if afio not found (Mondo needs afio)
951 - optional --custom <temp dir> <out dir> switch added, to let the user
952 specify where the temp dirs and created images will be stored
953 - changed /sbin/init to install modules _before_ trying to mount
954 CD-ROM (David Granz)
955 - create a gawk->awk shortcut at restore-time if necessary
956 - specifically exclude /dev/fd0h1440 and /dev/fd0H1440 from mountlist
957 - removed silly "was CD inserted?" message
958
959
960v0.35
961 - if LILO fails, it writes its errors to the screen
962 - use user's boot.b and LILO instead of Mindi's
963 - tarball/RPM no longer includes boot.b or lilo
964 - mke2fs' output will be echoed to screen, if an error occurs
965 - doubled the -N inode allocations and removed some of the -i inode
966 fiddles, just in case they are making Red Hat 7.1 choke
967
968
969v0.34
970 - includes patch to rid Mindi of its dependence on /dev/loop devices
971 (Bill Davidsen)
972 - includes patch from 0ystein Skalsem, to fix a disk-formatting problem
973 - warns if kernel is 2.4.0-2.4.5; encourages user to upgrade
974
975
976v0.33
977 - excludes all devices containing ':/' (i.e. NFS mountlists)
978 - the FORMAT/SYS replacement, "format-and-kludge-vfat" now writes
979 its logfile to /tmp/format-and-kludge-vfat.log
980 - /etc/fstab now mounts floppies for read/write access by default
981 - format-and-kludge-vfat should only write to log once now
982 - added vi, top to deplist.txt
983 - updated the rootfs.tgz's README
984 - mountlist is written to screen as well as mountlist.txt
985 - tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
986 - changed 'mkfs' lines, to format the loop-mounted files instead of the
987 device nodes which makes Mindi work better with kernels 2.4.6+
988 - Mindi can now handle kernels of up to 930K in size
989 - sped up the process of spreading data files across data disks
990 by approx 20%
991
992
993v0.32
994 - software RAID is now supported
995 - added the 'raidtools' binaries to deplist.txt
996 - add /etc/fstab and /etc/raidtab to deplist.txt
997 - added /dev/md* to the ramdisk's /dev directory
998 - modified MakeMountlist() to calculate correctly the sizes of
999 RAID partitions, if they are present in /etc/fstab
1000 - moved the 'LOOPDEVICE=...' code into the regular main() section
1001 - install-additional-tools makes a softlink '/etc/raidtab' that points
1002 to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/raidtab; also, '/etc/fstab.orig' that points
1003 to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/fstab
1004 - added line to 'install-additional-tools' that will delete the
1005 dummy modprobe before installing data from datadisk(s)
1006 - mkdir -p $outdir at the beginning, just in case...
1007
1008
1009
1010v0.31
1011 - included DoJ's patch to make Mindi play more nicely with devfs
1012 - slightly better install.sh and README
1013
1014
1015v0.30
1016 - added klogd and syslogd to deplist.txt
1017 - can now cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" entries in /etc/fstab
1018 - should ignore NFS-mounted partitions now
1019
1020
1021v0.29
1022 - stopped the 'modprobe' errors that used to occur at the beginning;
1023 they didn't mean anything but they did worry some novice users
1024 - removed losetup from rootfs.tgz (wasn't doing anything useful)
1025 - removed the 'txt-or-gui' stuff from Mindi (never used it anyway)
1026 - added clear to deplist.txt
1027 - moved rootfs.tgz's "mondo/" scripts to Mondo's "restore-scripts.tgz"
1028 tarball; tarball will be untarred and contents added to the
1029 data disks at run-time, if Mindi finds the tarball
1030 - if user lacks fd0u1722 but has fd0h1722 then use the latter
1031 - boot-up msg is more informative
1032 - fixed obscure bug in find-and-mount-cdrom
1033 - better at coping with hda1/2/3/4 (normal people use hda1/5/6/7 but
1034 if you really want to exhaust your primaries, well hey, your life)
1035 - the 'outstring sucks!' message is now more informative
1036
1037
1038v0.28
1039 - if AddFileToDir() is called with a file that does not exist, Mindi
1040 warns but does not abort
1041 - should work with gzipped modules (which end in '.o.gz') and
1042 NVidia modules (which don't end in anything)
1043 - should work with Red Hat's issue.net now
1044 - misc. cosmetic changes to Mondo boot-time and restore-phase scripts,
1045 to make the visual output cleaner & more legible
1046 - insist-on-cd retracts the CD tray after asking for next CD, in case
1047 the user did not close the drive before pressing <enter>
1048 - if unable to create 1.72MB boot disk then warn but do not abort
1049 - put creation date on the boot-up screen
1050 - create data disks with tarballs up to 1700KB in size; tries harder
1051 to fill each data disk to the brim
1052 - changed the call to make ext3 partitions; now, it uses a call to
1053 mkfs -t ext3 -j -Jsize=10 -q <device> (as requested by ext3 manual)
1054 - tested w/ext3; works fine
1055 - install-additional-tools doesn't call sync until after all softlinks
1056 have been finalized; that's to make sure we call the _right_ sync
1057 - ramdisk is now (size of all files in data disks PLUS 8192) KB
1058 - RPM and SRPM published
1059 - mount CDROM at start of untar-me, just in case it wasn't mounted
1060 - when restoring selectively, log the archives that have matches
1061 & the number of matches (inc. if zero)
1062
1063
1064v0.26
1065 - has been tested with XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, ext2 and vfat
1066 - compatible (but not tested) with ext3
1067 - better at finding your kernel, even if you have several kernels
1068 of the same version (now checks the build date, too)
1069 - better file-spreading algorithm; a little faster; much more reliable
1070 - includes a copy of LILO, to make the boot disks properly
1071 - tells you how big the tarballs are, when it assembles them
1072 - compare-me uses 'insist-on-cd' instead of internal subroutine
1073 - it looks as if Mindi can actually cope with 920K kernels now :)
1074 - fixed some silly multi-CD bugs that would stop big files from being
1075 restored if they were spread across CD's
1076
1077
1078v0.25
1079 - uses its own copy of lilo
1080 - removed all "~" (backup copies) from rootfs.tgz
1081 - updated the rootfs's README - stablilo-me, not hack-me
1082 - improved the formatting of the lilo.conf as it is created
1083 - replace all libc5 tools with libc6 (user's) tools at restore-time
1084 - added diff to deplist.txt
1085 - copy io.sys and msdos.sys (if found) to data disk(s) at
1086 run-time; softlinks them to /*.sys at boot-time
1087 - fixed some vfat formatting-related issues w/Embleer (always tricky);
1088 the kludge's error-handling is better and its exit is more graceful
1089 - say 'type nuke to restore automatically' in msg if Mondo called me
1090 - backup all modules, not just the ones present/loaded at run-time;
1091 the loaded modules go on boot disk but ALL go on data disk
1092 - reduced the max data per disk from 1700 to 1680, to suit ext2's needs
1093 - DidMondoCallMe() replaces 'ps ax | grep | blah blah'
1094 - includes user's /etc/termcap and /usr/bin/pico on disk(s)
1095 - cosmetic changes to restore-time scripts (spaces, newlines, etc.)
1096 - pipe kernel's msgs to /var/log/messages
1097 - make sure /etc/lilo.conf is 600 (RW by root only)
1098
1099
1100v0.24
1101 - can accommodate a kernel >900KB in size
1102 - generates lilo.conf on-the-fly; no default/template file anymore
1103 - copies io.sys and msdos.sys to the CD (if you have them)
1104 - add the embleer tarballs to mindi-0.xx.tgz, so that users can
1105 format and make bootable msdos/Win9x partitions
1106 - added printf and hdparm to deplist.txt
1107 - incorporated Bruno Cornec's Mondo 0.991 scripts in Mindi
1108 - separated README into README, INSTALL and TODO
1109 - fixed silly {ramdisk}/sbin/InsistOnCD bug
1110 - took out mke2fs and libext from rootfs.tgz
1111 - rootfs.tgz's "/etc/bashrc" now includes /usr/share/mindi
1112 - compare-mode uses IDE optimization to speed things up
1113 - don't quibble over resizing partitions if <2MB difference
1114 - fixed silly InsistOnCD bug
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1117v0.23
1118 - don't copy *.mdsg to boot floppy image
1119 - fixed erroneous 'cannot make ISO image' error message
1120 - can accommodate a kernel as large as 890K
1121 - now uses lilo, not syslinux (lilo works better w/2.88MB boot images)
1122 - creates & formats disk images on the fly (no more .img.gz templates)
1123 - boot disks are formatted ext2, like the data disks
1124 - creates 1.72MB and El Torito 2.88MB boot floppies/images
1125 - if called by Mondo, doesn't list images or offer to copy to FDD/CDRw
1126 - includes the distro's name and kernel version in LILO's message
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1130 - don't add a ramdisk; use rootfs & that's it
1131 - dependency-calculator runs approx. twice as fast as in v0.20
1132 - tested with Linux Mandrake 8.0; works well, if you recompile
1133 kernel to include floppy disk support (which LM8's kernel does not)
1134 - supports bigger kernels now, up to 900K in size
1135 - deplist.txt may now include directories, not just files
1136 - ignores kernel filenames that are hyperlinks
1137 - uses awk instead of gawk; drop the awk/gawk-finding thing
1138 - uses gzip, not bzip2; dropped bzip2, mv, ls to make rootfs smaller
1139 - copies user's /dev/fd0* devices to boot disk
1140 - calls Mindi's copy of syslinux, not user's copy
1141 - use modules' paths, e.g. instead of just 'insmod fubar', use
1142 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac117/vfat/fubar.o'
1143 - in boot.msg, XXXXX is part 1 of the 2nd line, YYYYY is part 2 of
1144 the 2nd line, and ZZZZZ is Mindi's version# (in the 1st line)
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1147v0.21
1148 - df, du, find, lsmod, rmmod have been removed from rootfs.tgz
1149 - at boot-time, inserts kernel modules w/user's original parameters
1150 - deletes the slices after recombining them & restoring the files
1151 - includes the MINDI_VER version number in boot.msg
1152 - if boot disk is too small, lists the files & which one is too big
1153 - syslinux now waits 10 seconds before booting floppy
1154 - 'insert-all-my-modules' is copied to rootfs, not to a data disk
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