Changeset 664 in MondoRescue

Timestamp:

Jun 10, 2006, 12:26:38 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

bcornec

Message:

Preparation for 2.0.8-4

Location:

branches/2.0.8

Files:

• mindi/ChangeLog (modified) (37 diffs)
• mondo/ChangeLog (modified) (56 diffs)

branches/2.0.8/mindi/ChangeLog

@@ -3 +3 @@
 MINDI CHANGES
 
+1.0.8-4 (2006-06-10)
+- nfsmount option added to allow redeployment from another NFS server (Bruno Cornec)
+
 1.0.8-3 (2006-06-07)
-- exec-shield removed for mindi
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix a bug for ia64 build in mindi where locallib was undefined
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix a bug for SuSE and Debian where $dfam was used in install.sh
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Make the init script mdadm-aware
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- exec-shield removed for mindi (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug for ia64 build in mindi where locallib was undefined (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug for SuSE and Debian where $dfam was used in install.sh (Bruno Cornec)
+- Make the init script mdadm-aware (Andree Leidenfrost)
 
 1.0.8-2 (2006-06-02)
-- Fix bugs in the swap+LABEL code found on rhel4
-  (Peter Naber/Bruno Cornec)
-- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix bugs in the swap+LABEL code found on rhel4 (Peter Naber/Bruno Cornec)
+- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment (Bruno Cornec)
 
 1.0.8-1 (2006-05-25)
 - new build process (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix a bug when a disk less than 2.8 MB can be built, to
-  include enough modules to support SCSI cds 
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Add support for LABEL on swap partitions 
-  (Michel Loiseleur + Julien Pinon)
-- Attempt to fix bug 6827 (addition of a script for 
-  busybox udhcpc to support pxe/dhcp restore)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug when a disk less than 2.8 MB can be built, to include enough modules to support SCSI cds (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused) (Bruno Cornec)
+- Add support for LABEL on swap partitions (Michel Loiseleur + Julien Pinon)
+- Attempt to fix bug 6827 (addition of a script for busybox udhcpc to support pxe/dhcp restore) (Bruno Cornec)
 - support of dm and LVM v2 (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - analyze-my-lvm is under $MINDI_LIB (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- Fix a bug introduced by trying to avoid an error 
-  message when modprobe.d doesn't exist
-  (Johannes Franken)
-- Fix for Bug #6975 (/net is now excluded from kernel search location)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug introduced by trying to avoid an error message when modprobe.d doesn't exist (Johannes Franken)
+- Fix for Bug #6975 (/net is now excluded from kernel search location) (Bruno Cornec)
 - Allow 5670 MB fllopy disks for lilo as well (Bruno Cornec)
 - Add missing net modules (Klaus Ade Johnstad)
@@ -43 +31 @@
 1.0.7 (2006-03-10)
 - Fix issue for 2.6 kernels with VIA chipsets (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds 
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- init revamped (removed unnecessary second general module loading phase,
-  start NFS appropriately depending on PXE or simple NFS) 
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds (Bruno Cornec)
+- init revamped (removed unnecessary second general module loading phase, start NFS appropriately depending on PXE or simple NFS) (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - Changed module 'nfsacl' to 'nfs_acl' (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - Mindi/DiskSize is gone (Bruno Cornec)
-- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed 
-  (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
 - Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - Bug fix for chown in install.sh (JeffS)
@@ -57 +41 @@
 - rpmlint cleanups
 - Get mindi to look for analyze-my-lvm in it's library directory MINDI_LIB (See also Debian bug #351446.)
-- mindi only deletes freshly created 1440kb images in case of error (See also Debian Bug #348966.)
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- try standard grub-install in grub-MR restore script before trying anything fancy
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- mindi only deletes freshly created 1440kb images in case of error (See also Debian Bug #348966.) (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- try standard grub-install in grub-MR restore script before trying anything fancy (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - busybox mount should be called with -o ro for PXE (Make RHEL 3 works in PXE
-with a 2.6 failsafe kernel now available)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix mindi for 2.6 Failsafe support
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- mindi now depends on grep >= 2.5 (for -m option)
-  (Marco Puggelli/Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix a bug in LVM context for RHEL4 in GetValueFromField
-  (Rémi Bondoin/Bruno Cornec)
+with a 2.6 failsafe kernel now available) (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix mindi for 2.6 Failsafe support (Bruno Cornec)
+- mindi now depends on grep >= 2.5 (for -m option) (Marco Puggelli/Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug in LVM context for RHEL4 in GetValueFromField (Rémi Bondoin/Bruno Cornec)
 - New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)
 - mindi now supports x86_64 natively (Bruno Cornec)
-- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds (Bruno Cornec)
 
 1.06 (2005-12-23)
 - mindi manpage added (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - clean up remaining mount points, mindi.err at the end (Wolfgang Rosenauer)
-- fix bugs for SuSE distro around tar, tr and find arguments order 
-  (Wolfgang Rosenauer)
+- fix bugs for SuSE distro around tar, tr and find arguments order (Wolfgang Rosenauer)
 - new busybox.net version used for better PXE support (Bruno Cornec)
 - USB keyboard support (Bruno Cornec)
 - -p should now work with ISO/PXE/NFS modes (Bruno Cornec)
-- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) 
-  (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
-- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- install script rewritten and used for RPM build, with new layout 
-  (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
+- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
+- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball) (Bruno Cornec)
+- install script rewritten and used for RPM build, with new layout (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
 - use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
-- use MONDO_LIB exported by mondoarchive instead of MONDO_HOME guessed 
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0, 
-  mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
+- use MONDO_LIB exported by mondoarchive instead of MONDO_HOME guessed (Bruno Cornec)
+- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0, mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
 - VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
 - VMPlayer support
-- Code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements 
-  (Wolfgang Rosenauer/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec
-- New switches for PXE mode (ping & ipconf, Cf README.pxe) 
-  (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
+- Code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements (Wolfgang Rosenauer/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec
+- New switches for PXE mode (ping & ipconf, Cf README.pxe) (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
 - mindi-kernel added to SVN (Bruno Cornec)
 
 1.05 (2005-11-19)
-- Bug fix for ldd output incorrectly handled, leading to "grep not found" error
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- NFS now works in interactive mode, and nolock problems are solve
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- IA-64 support is now working for rhel 3
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- add MINDI_CONF to the mindi LOGFILE 
-  (Philippe De Muyter)
-- Speed up fdisk'ing dev/ida raid devices
-  (Philippe De Muyter)
+- Bug fix for ldd output incorrectly handled, leading to "grep not found" error (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- NFS now works in interactive mode, and nolock problems are solve (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- IA-64 support is now working for rhel 3 (Bruno Cornec)
+- add MINDI_CONF to the mindi LOGFILE (Philippe De Muyter)
+- Speed up fdisk'ing dev/ida raid devices (Philippe De Muyter)
 
 1.04 (2005-05-03)
 - support exec-shield
-- added 'ide-generic' module to IDE modules in mindi to ensure that kernels
-  with fully modularised IDE sub-system boot
-- rewrote script 'wait-for-petris' to ensure that petris actually starts and
-  can be restarted reliably
-- fixed syntax error in mindi where a wrong delimiter is used in and sed call
-  when processing file '/etc/issue.net'
-- removed '#!/bin/bash' from file 'rootfs/etc/bashrc' (bashrc get sourced, not
-  executed)
+- added 'ide-generic' module to IDE modules in mindi to ensure that kernels with fully modularised IDE sub-system boot
+- rewrote script 'wait-for-petris' to ensure that petris actually starts and can be restarted reliably
+- fixed syntax error in mindi where a wrong delimiter is used in and sed call when processing file '/etc/issue.net'
+- removed '#!/bin/bash' from file 'rootfs/etc/bashrc' (bashrc get sourced, not executed)
 - removed executable flag from:
 - 'rootfs/etc/ld.so.cache'
@@ -134 +94 @@
 - better kernel-level logging
 - added ACL, xattr binaries to deplist.txt
-- fixed obscure bug which occasionally stopped mindi from correctly finding
-  and documenting all LVM2 LVM-on-RAID volumes
-  
+- fixed obscure bug which occasionally stopped mindi from correctly finding and documenting all LVM2 LVM-on-RAID volumes 
 1.01 (2004-06-21)
 - added ide_tape and other modules to mindi's config detection
@@ -198 +156 @@
 - better ISO support
 - tweaked mindi to use 10-15% fewer floppies
-- added RUN_AFTER_INITIAL_BOOT_PHASE var at start of Mindi, which
-  user may use to force Mindi to run command before bootstrapping
-  to aux data disks or CD - e.g. 'echo engage > /proc/scsi/something'
-- allow for Debian & other Stiefkinder that use 'none', not 'swap'
-  as the mountpoint of the swap partition
+- added RUN_AFTER_INITIAL_BOOT_PHASE var at start of Mindi, which user may use to force Mindi to run command before bootstrapping to aux data disks or CD - e.g. 'echo engage > /proc/scsi/something'
+- allow for Debian & other Stiefkinder that use 'none', not 'swap' as the mountpoint of the swap partition
 - removed afio dependency
-- added RUN_AFTER_BOOT_PHASE_COMPLETE to let user specify a command
-  to be run by Mindi after it boots but before it runs mondorestore
+- added RUN_AFTER_BOOT_PHASE_COMPLETE to let user specify a command to be run by Mindi after it boots but before it runs mondorestore
 - re-worked install.sh and tarball not to use tgz's
 - cleared up the boot msg
@@ -225 +179 @@
 - clean up some calls to grep, esp. partition_mountpt=...
 - corrected some bashisms, to suit Debian ped- er, users
-- made first line refer to bash, not sh, to make sure 
-  the Debian people know Mindi requires bash, not hs
+- made first line refer to bash, not sh, to make sure the Debian people know Mindi requires bash, not hs
 - changed grep -v "#" and grep -vx "#.*" to grep -vx " *#.*"
-- disabled code which would make Mindi use sfdisk instead of fdisk
-  if it looked as if Debian's fdisk would misbehave
+- disabled code which would make Mindi use sfdisk instead of fdisk if it looked as if Debian's fdisk would misbehave
 
 v0.91 (2003-04-04)
@@ -240 +192 @@
 - try harder to boot from CD, even if tape fails
 - added ADDITIONAL_BOOT_PARAMS to be sent to kernel
-- better resolution of relative softlinks, leading to fewer
-  duplicates on data disks and therefore fewer data disks
-- detect Debian+devfs; use sfdisk instead of fdisk in that
-  eventuality, to work around yet another of Debian's warts
+- better resolution of relative softlinks, leading to fewer duplicates on data disks and therefore fewer data disks
+- detect Debian+devfs; use sfdisk instead of fdisk in that eventuality, to work around yet another of Debian's warts
 - removed /lib/libuuid.* from rootfs.tgz
 - fixed vi
-- mindi now uses gawk --traditional (making gawk behave in a functionally
-  identical way to awk) - PASS; great, so now Debian needs to fix its awk :)
+- mindi now uses gawk --traditional (making gawk behave in a functionally identical way to awk) - PASS; great, so now Debian needs to fix its awk :)
 - removed / from list of dirs accessed when trying to resolve deplist entry
 - spinner bugfix; handle odd LABELs properly (Tom Mortell)
@@ -267 +216 @@
 
 v0.71 (2002-11-17)
-- if your kernel's builddate doesn't match any of the kernels in 
-  your /boot directory then fudge the issue & find the closest 
-  match (*grumble* Debian)
+- if your kernel's builddate doesn't match any of the kernels in your /boot directory then fudge the issue & find the closest match (*grumble* Debian)
 - scan tape & CD at start, to force inclusion of modules on boot device
 - double EXTRA_SPACE if >7 disks
@@ -303 +250 @@
 - added RPC support to uClibc
 - cleaned up creation of Mondo-Mindi configuration file
-- fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling
-  multiple, same-version kernels gracefully
+- fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling multiple, same-version kernels gracefully
 - cleaned up deplist.txt
 - receive 'DIFFERENTIAL' variable from Mondo
@@ -367 +313 @@
 
 v0.62 (2002-04-08)
-- keep certain /dev directories compressed until boot-time, to allow
-  Mindi to support larger kernels
+- keep certain /dev directories compressed until boot-time, to allow Mindi to support larger kernels
 - cleaned up logging a lot
 - better detection of the kernel currently in use
@@ -389 +334 @@
 
 v0.58-r6 (2002-03-03)
-- reassemble large data/library files who have older 'mv' code which doesn't
-  like to overwrite symlinks - affects older RH+Slack systems (Andrew Bulhak)
+- reassemble large data/library files who have older 'mv' code which doesn't like to overwrite symlinks - affects older RH+Slack systems (Andrew Bulhak)
 - call /usr/bin/logger, not 'logger', in LogIt()
 - run chmod 755 `which start-nfs` before running start-nfs
@@ -406 +350 @@
 v0.58-r4 (2002-02-18)
 - quash error if /opt not found
-- use /tmp/groovy-stuff instead of /mnt/groovy-stuff for
-  handling data disks and their contents, for tape users
+- use /tmp/groovy-stuff instead of /mnt/groovy-stuff for handling data disks and their contents, for tape users
 
 v0.58-r3 (2002-02-17)
@@ -449 +392 @@
 - moved many global vars to start of script
 - better at finding US kbd maps
-- migrating to a single configuration file, /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg, for
-  Mondo users; file is not in use yet but is there for future expansion
+- migrating to a single configuration file, /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg, for Mondo users; file is not in use yet but is there for future expansion
 
 v0.55 (2002-01-28)
-- MINDI_HOME and MONDO_HOME defined at start of each source file, making
-  it easier to relocate Mindi and Mondo if desired
+- MINDI_HOME and MONDO_HOME defined at start of each source file, making it easier to relocate Mindi and Mondo if desired
 - tries to mount /dev/hd[a-h] at boot-time, looking for CD-ROM; was hd[a-d]
 - re-enabled the msg asking user to upgrade LILO if v21.6
-- Lin/Win users are much, _much_ less likely to run out of disk space now
-  when restoring from backups (Carlos Molina)
+- Lin/Win users are much, _much_ less likely to run out of disk space now when restoring from backups (Carlos Molina)
 - patch from Andrej Borsenkow to help w/Mandrake 8.1
 - disabled ramdisk free space checker (some distros don't like it)
@@ -482 +422 @@
 - improved TryToFindKernelPath() function
 - don't offer NFS users Nuke Mode
-- finds and uses lilo.real if user is using Debian, a distro which
-  installs a shell script where the lilo executable should go
+- finds and uses lilo.real if user is using Debian, a distro which installs a shell script where the lilo executable should go
 - improved support for XFS users who opt to use failsafe kernel
 - uses user's lsmod, depmod, insmod, etc.
@@ -493 +432 @@
 v0.52-2 (2002-01-10)
 - fixed a bug in the handling of non-English keyboard maps
-- force failsafe kernel to provide reiserfs.o, xfs.o, jfs.o, ext2.o,
-  ext3.o and loop.o at boot-time, just in case
+- force failsafe kernel to provide reiserfs.o, xfs.o, jfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o and loop.o at boot-time, just in case
 - added /dev/sr[0-3] devices
 - copy LAST_FILELIST_NUMBER to /tmp, for compatibility with Mondo v1.3x
 - incorporates NFS-related settings, if supplied by Mondo v1.3x
-- replace busybox's mount with standard libc5 mount ater restoring
-  tools from floppies: NFS mounting requires full mount
+- replace busybox's mount with standard libc5 mount ater restoring tools from floppies: NFS mounting requires full mount
 - always make mindi.iso
 
@@ -511 +448 @@
 - /sbin and /usr/sbin added temporarily to PATH when Mindi runs
 - if Mondo asks then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode
-- if Mondo's tmpdir has post-nuke.tgz in it then extract it and
-  incorporate its files in the data disks
+- if Mondo's tmpdir has post-nuke.tgz in it then extract it and incorporate its files in the data disks
 - losetup /dev/loop0 -d before calling LILO (Norm Crowfoot)
-- if keyboard mapping dir (usu. /lib/kbd or /usr/lib/kbd) cannot be
-  found then don't abort; simply tell the user the default keyboard 
-  mapping will be used
+- if keyboard mapping dir (usu. /lib/kbd or /usr/lib/kbd) cannot be found then don't abort; simply tell the user the default keyboard mapping will be used
 - added /dev/hd[a,b,c,d][17-24] to the rootfs tarball
-- won't use LILO's optimizations when creating boot floppy; however,
-  optimizations are used on CD unless --broken-bios in call to Mondo
+- won't use LILO's optimizations when creating boot floppy; however, optimizations are used on CD unless --broken-bios in call to Mondo
 - won't write data disks to start of tape; lets Mondo do that
-- tweaked how Mindi moves all.tar.gz around, to make it more
-  Mondo-friendly
+- tweaked how Mindi moves all.tar.gz around, to make it more Mondo-friendly
 - tweaked Mindi's disk-splitter
 - user must unmount /dev/loop0 before calling Mindi: LILO insists...
 - added NFS-related entries to deplist.txt
-- if not called by Mondo then don't let user choose Interactive/Nuke/
-  whatever; just offer Expert
+- if not called by Mondo then don't let user choose Interactive/Nuke/ whatever; just offer Expert
 
 v0.51-1 (2001-12-25)
@@ -543 +474 @@
 - log Mindi's version# in the event of a fatal error
 - make Mindi's boot-time output more esthetically pleasing
-- if filesystem is type 'image', according to Mondo, then in filelist
-  its partition type will be listed as the hexadecimal string (e.g.
-  'b', '83', etc.) and the partition mountpoint will be 'image'
+- if filesystem is type 'image', according to Mondo, then in filelist its partition type will be listed as the hexadecimal string (e.g.  'b', '83', etc.) and the partition mountpoint will be 'image'
 
 v0.50-2 (2001-12-15)
@@ -554 +483 @@
 - breaks compatibility with Mondo v1.2x
 - if user's fstab has weird line(s) then ignore; don't abort
-- working on CDROM_MODS, trying to make it work on Stewart Charnell's
-  hardware setup
+- working on CDROM_MODS, trying to make it work on Stewart Charnell's hardware setup
 - cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-init a bit
 
 v0.48-2 (2001-12-09)
-- when insmod'g modules from ramdisk's root dir, use 'ls /*.o*'
-  (was 'ls /*.*') to find them
-- if RAID controller(s) are detected then pause for 10s to let them
-  intialize by themselves (some 3ware RAID controllers require this)
-- cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-ini; the former now controls
-  initialization of hardware, drivers, tools, etc. and the latter
-  runs mondo-restore if it exists
+- when insmod'g modules from ramdisk's root dir, use 'ls /*.o*' (was 'ls /*.*') to find them
+- if RAID controller(s) are detected then pause for 10s to let them intialize by themselves (some 3ware RAID controllers require this)
+- cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-ini; the former now controls initialization of hardware, drivers, tools, etc. and the latter runs mondo-restore if it exists
 - better detection of and compatibility with SCSI CD-ROM drives
 - chopsize is now 64KB; was 128KB
@@ -571 +495 @@
 
 v0.48-1 (2001-12-08)
-- better logging of find-and-mount-cdrom's progress (to
-  /tmp/mondo-restore.log)
+- better logging of find-and-mount-cdrom's progress (to /tmp/mondo-restore.log)
 - somehow, lilo was re-enabled in deplist.txt; DISABLED (again *g*)
 - added 'linear' to the list of modules Mindi always backs up
-- if called by Mondo then pass the name & device of the user's boot
-  loader to the restore phase, by copying BOOTLOADER.* to the ramdisk
-- if loading from floppies then try to mount CD-ROM a 2nd time after
-  extracting files from data floppies, just in case user is a CD user
-  who couldn't get their CD-ROM drive to work initially
+- if called by Mondo then pass the name & device of the user's boot loader to the restore phase, by copying BOOTLOADER.* to the ramdisk
+- if loading from floppies then try to mount CD-ROM a 2nd time after extracting files from data floppies, just in case user is a CD user who couldn't get their CD-ROM drive to work initially
 - added fix to make sure /root/images/mindi is created (Charlie Root)
 - aware of 'iso' boot mode, for future expansion
 
 v0.47 (2001-12-04)
-- added /dev/cdrom/cdrom[1-4] to the devices automatically excluded
-  from mountlist.txt
-- added '-f-' to the end of most tar commands, to see if it fixes a
-  bug in some obscure Debian distros
+- added /dev/cdrom/cdrom[1-4] to the devices automatically excluded from mountlist.txt
+- added '-f-' to the end of most tar commands, to see if it fixes a bug in some obscure Debian distros
 - added network-related dependencies to deplist.txt
-- if called by Mondo then don't write floppy images to disks; let
-  Mondo do that: less irritating for user
-- if called by Mondo then do some clever tricks to add mondo-restore
-  and its dependencies (mondo-restore is now a dynamic executable)
+- if called by Mondo then don't write floppy images to disks; let Mondo do that: less irritating for user
+- if called by Mondo then do some clever tricks to add mondo-restore and its dependencies (mondo-restore is now a dynamic executable)
 - finally gotten klogd to squelch echoing of kernel msgs to console
 
@@ -599 +515 @@
 - cosmetic changes and minor bugfixes
 - excluded lilo.conf and lilo from deplist.txt; use user's copy instead
-- if your fstab mentions a RAID partition but your raidtab doesn't then
-  Mindi will terminate in a sane manner with a sane error message
+- if your fstab mentions a RAID partition but your raidtab doesn't then Mindi will terminate in a sane manner with a sane error message
 - fixed a bug in bug-me (heh, how ironic)
 - include and run (sys)klogd to try to pipe kernel msgs to logfile
@@ -611 +526 @@
 - tweaked data disk size and data disk formatting command
 - make ISO bootable image (as well as floppies) when backing up to tape
-- copy boot images (floppy + CD) from temp dir to /root/images/mindi
-  after making them, just in case the user wants them later
+- copy boot images (floppy + CD) from temp dir to /root/images/mindi after making them, just in case the user wants them later
 - added md5sum to deplist.txt
 - added pico->vi softlink to ramdisk
-- in the ramdisk's /etc/bashrc, added /usr/local/bin and
-  /usr/local/sbin to the PATH= command
-- call insert-all-modules as background task; pause 3 seconds after
-  calling it, before proceeding <--- /sbin/init
+- in the ramdisk's /etc/bashrc, added /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin to the PATH= command
+- call insert-all-modules as background task; pause 3 seconds after calling it, before proceeding <--- /sbin/init
 - call to devfs has been moved to before call to post-init
 - added 'md5sum -> busybox' softlink
-- Mindi now uses busybox's printf, md5sum, mount, umount, vi
-  ...NB: I said, 'vi' :-) Now you have an editor again! :-)
+- Mindi now uses busybox's printf, md5sum, mount, umount, vi ...NB: I said, 'vi' :-) Now you have an editor again! :-)
 - added lilo.real to deplist.txt, to allow for Debian's evil new distro
 - added lzop to deplist.txt
@@ -628 +539 @@
 - improved Mindi's error-reporting a little bit
 - changed deplist.txt's /etc/* to just *
-- restructured the calls in /sbin/post-init that reinitialize the LVM
-  and RAID modules
+- restructured the calls in /sbin/post-init that reinitialize the LVM and RAID modules
 - if mkfs.ext2 is not in PATH then abort
-- Mindi uses a 'filename cache' to speed itself up at run-time
-  (Jean-David Marrow)
+- Mindi uses a 'filename cache' to speed itself up at run-time (Jean-David Marrow)
 - Red Hat 7.2 uses a weird /etc/issue.net; I've worked around it...
 - tested with Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2
@@ -640 +549 @@
 - restructured deplist.txt a bit (cosmetic change)
 - re-enabled fsck.* in deplist.txt
-- analyze-my-lvm fails gracefully if you're not using LVM but inserted
-  the module anyway
+- analyze-my-lvm fails gracefully if you're not using LVM but inserted the module anyway
 
 v0.43 (2001-10-21)
 - made Mindi work with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
-- if mkisofs is not found, say so; don't just say, 'an error occurred
-  while I was trying to make an ISO image'
-- when formatting and writing floppies, if /dev/fd0's size is
-  indeterminable then I'll use /dev/fd0H1440 instead 
-- make sure xfs.o, jfs.o, reiserfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o modules are
-  backed up (if they exist) to boot disks
-- fixed a silly bug that stopped Mindi from handling its own modules
-  properly; only affects newbie users with broken kernels (i.e. the
-  very people that Mindi's failsafe kernel was meant to help!)
+- if mkisofs is not found, say so; don't just say, 'an error occurred while I was trying to make an ISO image'
+- when formatting and writing floppies, if /dev/fd0's size is indeterminable then I'll use /dev/fd0H1440 instead 
+- make sure xfs.o, jfs.o, reiserfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o modules are backed up (if they exist) to boot disks
+- fixed a silly bug that stopped Mindi from handling its own modules properly; only affects newbie users with broken kernels (i.e. the very people that Mindi's failsafe kernel was meant to help!)
 - added lzop (Marcus Oberhumer's file compressor) to aux-tools.tgz
-- added Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch; if user uses the switch
-  (i.e. '--cd-recovery yes') then the CD will boot to a screen that
-  pauses until the user types RESTORE; then, it will enter Nuke Mode
+- added Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch; if user uses the switch (i.e. '--cd-recovery yes') then the CD will boot to a screen that pauses until the user types RESTORE; then, it will enter Nuke Mode
 - added Stephan Zegherd's "superformat" patch
-- failsafe kernel is now 2.4.12 with XFS, JFS and lots of SCSI modules;
-  the addition of XFS and extensive SCSI support will increase the 
-  size of Mindi's RPM / tarball significantly but I think it's worth it
-- at boot-time, find out whether there are any RAID partitions; and if
-  there are, whether they are 'started' yet; if not, run raidstart to
-  start them at boot-time, before user can try to mount anything
-- Mindi's failsafe kernel & modules are handled more elegantly now;
-  if you have raid1.o, scsi.o, etc. loaded at backup-time then Mindi
-  finds its corresponding modules in its tarball of failsafe modules
-  and stores them so that at boot-time you can do SCSI, RAID, etc.
+- failsafe kernel is now 2.4.12 with XFS, JFS and lots of SCSI modules; the addition of XFS and extensive SCSI support will increase the size of Mindi's RPM / tarball significantly but I think it's worth it
+- at boot-time, find out whether there are any RAID partitions; and if there are, whether they are 'started' yet; if not, run raidstart to start them at boot-time, before user can try to mount anything
+- Mindi's failsafe kernel & modules are handled more elegantly now; if you have raid1.o, scsi.o, etc. loaded at backup-time then Mindi finds its corresponding modules in its tarball of failsafe modules and stores them so that at boot-time you can do SCSI, RAID, etc.
 - removed gawk, printf from deplist.txt
 
@@ -674 +568 @@
 - make sure lvm-mod, raid0, raid1 and raid5 modules are backed up
 - added 'you need a ramdisk' to FAQ
-- changed the slice size from 20KB to 64KB; speeds up Mindi by 25%
-  and doesn't have any negative side-effects (...that I can see)
-- when searching for your current kernel version, do not examine
-  a file if it does not exist (it sounds obvious, I know...)
-- when asking user to send me a copy of their log file, point out
-  that it may contain info which they do not want me to see but that
-  they are SOL unless I can actually see their log file
-- fixed a silly bug that would crop up when a Linux-Mandrake 8.1 user
-  would use a devfs-enabled kernel and RAID partitions at the same time
+- changed the slice size from 20KB to 64KB; speeds up Mindi by 25% and doesn't have any negative side-effects (...that I can see)
+- when searching for your current kernel version, do not examine a file if it does not exist (it sounds obvious, I know...)
+- when asking user to send me a copy of their log file, point out that it may contain info which they do not want me to see but that they are SOL unless I can actually see their log file
+- fixed a silly bug that would crop up when a Linux-Mandrake 8.1 user would use a devfs-enabled kernel and RAID partitions at the same time
 - plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
 - data floppies are now 1.44MB each; boot floppy is still 1.72MB
 - if binutils or libbinutils is not installed, abort
-- fixed a bug which meant that some big files overwrote each other
-  at backup-time and caused library-related problems are boot-time
+- fixed a bug which meant that some big files overwrote each other at backup-time and caused library-related problems are boot-time
 - enabled comments ('#') in deplist.txt
-- disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt; user may re-enable the line if
-  s/he wants those tools available at boot-time
-- tested successfully with the following distros
-  - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel
-  - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel
+- disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt; user may re-enable the line if s/he wants those tools available at boot-time
+- tested successfully with the following distros - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel
 - better at guessing the size of swap partition
-- drop minix tools from deplist; user can restore them if s/he wants
-  to use the minix filesystem
-- don't backup _all_ cdrom modules (if backing up 'cdrom.o'); be
-  selective! ...minor bug in ListKerneModulePaths has been fixed
-- if the user has two glibc libraries - one in /lib and one in 
-  /lib/i686 - then Mindi will re-jig the softlinks so that only the
-  version in /lib is backed up, to save space on the data disks
-- major rewrite of the code that copies the tools and libraries from
-  the data disks; prettier, faster and more stable (and did I mention
-  how kind it is to your hard-working hands?)
+- drop minix tools from deplist; user can restore them if s/he wants to use the minix filesystem
+- don't backup _all_ cdrom modules (if backing up 'cdrom.o'); be selective! ...minor bug in ListKerneModulePaths has been fixed
+- if the user has two glibc libraries - one in /lib and one in /lib/i686 - then Mindi will re-jig the softlinks so that only the version in /lib is backed up, to save space on the data disks
+- major rewrite of the code that copies the tools and libraries from the data disks; prettier, faster and more stable (and did I mention how kind it is to your hard-working hands?)
 - better handling of crazy libraries and softlinks thereto
-- new boot-time script, 'bug-me', copies user's logs to a floppy and
-  tells him/her to e-mail them to me if mondo-restore aborts
-- ignore kernels named vmlinux (note the 'X'); traditionally, kernels
-  are named vmlinuz (note the 'Z') or something similar
-- no longer backup all modules to CD/tape; just backup the ones loaded
-  at backup-time; this saves boot-time ramdisk space
+- new boot-time script, 'bug-me', copies user's logs to a floppy and tells him/her to e-mail them to me if mondo-restore aborts
+- ignore kernels named vmlinux (note the 'X'); traditionally, kernels are named vmlinuz (note the 'Z') or something similar
+- no longer backup all modules to CD/tape; just backup the ones loaded at backup-time; this saves boot-time ramdisk space
 - removed all references to LOOPDEVICE
 - LVM is supported (experimental; watch this space...)
-- included a tarball of 'sane' /dev/loop* nodes which will be extracted
-  and added to the boot disk; this helps maintain Mindi's backward- 
-  compatibility with non-devfs kernels and distros
-- when copying modules to boot or data disks, uncompress them first
-  if they are gzipped (some distros come with compressed modules)
-- no longer copies all loaded modules to the 2.88 MB El Torito bootable
-  floppy image; instead, it copies FLOPPY_MODS to the 1.72 MB image,
-  CDROM_MODS to the 2.88 MB image, and _all_ modules that were loaded
-  at backup-time to the data disks
-    - supports tape streamers, in conjunction with Mondo
+- included a tarball of 'sane' /dev/loop* nodes which will be extracted and added to the boot disk; this helps maintain Mindi's backward- compatibility with non-devfs kernels and distros
+- when copying modules to boot or data disks, uncompress them first if they are gzipped (some distros come with compressed modules)
+- no longer copies all loaded modules to the 2.88 MB El Torito bootable floppy image; instead, it copies FLOPPY_MODS to the 1.72 MB image, CDROM_MODS to the 2.88 MB image, and _all_ modules that were loaded at backup-time to the data disks - supports tape streamers, in conjunction with Mondo
 - uses busybox's sync again; let's see if that breaks anything...
-- if Mondo is backing up to tape streamer then write the tape's size to
-  /tmp/TAPESIZE and the drive's device to /tmp/TAPEDEV-LIVES-HERE on 
-  the ramdisk
-- floppy disk modules (ide-floppy.o and floppy.o) now are copied
-  to the ramdisk, whether the user's kernel or the failsafe kernel
-  is being used
+- if Mondo is backing up to tape streamer then write the tape's size to /tmp/TAPESIZE and the drive's device to /tmp/TAPEDEV-LIVES-HERE on the ramdisk
+- floppy disk modules (ide-floppy.o and floppy.o) now are copied to the ramdisk, whether the user's kernel or the failsafe kernel is being used
 
 v0.41 (2001-09-28)
@@ -736 +601 @@
 - updated Mindi's own failsafe kernel+modules to v2.4.10
 - added umount to deplist again
-- improved Mindi's support of modular kernels (esp. modular CD-ROM
-  drive and floppy disk drives)
+- improved Mindi's support of modular kernels (esp. modular CD-ROM drive and floppy disk drives)
 - don't accuse Linux 2.4.10 users of having a 'buggy kernel'
-- restored the libc5 versions of sync and umount (dropped from
-  deplist but also from busybox)
+- restored the libc5 versions of sync and umount (dropped from deplist but also from busybox)
 - fixed a lot of silly bugs related to incorporating Busybox in Mindi
 - experimental LVM support
 - added 'analyze-my-lvm' script to the tarball; Mindi uses it now
 - able to recognize & record LVM mounts, adding them to the mountlist
-- added the LVM executables (listed in the lvm-0.xx-i386.rpm) to
-  deplist.txt; they won't be added unless you have them and you won't
+- added the LVM executables (listed in the lvm-0.xx-i386.rpm) to deplist.txt; they won't be added unless you have them and you won't
       have them unless you're using LVM, so this is not 'bloat' IMO :)
 - added date and sync to deplist again
 - when working on LVM stuff, use 'echo y | pvcreate -ff' (was '..-f')
-- amended format-...-kludge to allow for mountlists with >1
-  spaces between cols
-  checked the fsck.reiserfs is in deplist.txt (yes it is)
-- incorporated busybox 0.60-1; now, Mindi is faster at run-time and
-  smaller at boot-time; you can fit a typical system onto 3 floppies;
-  also, a kernel up to 1MB in size (approx.) can now be accommodated
+- amended format-...-kludge to allow for mountlists with >1 spaces between cols checked the fsck.reiserfs is in deplist.txt (yes it is)
+- incorporated busybox 0.60-1; now, Mindi is faster at run-time and smaller at boot-time; you can fit a typical system onto 3 floppies; also, a kernel up to 1MB in size (approx.) can now be accommodated
 - supports kernels that have MODULAR support for CD-ROM's or floppies
-- Mindi copies only the loaded modules to the data disks but it copies
-  _all_ modules to the CD, just in case
-- thanks to busybox your floppy-based Mindi boot disk set should now be
-  able to accommodate a kernel of up to 1MB in size
+- Mindi copies only the loaded modules to the data disks but it copies _all_ modules to the CD, just in case
+- thanks to busybox your floppy-based Mindi boot disk set should now be able to accommodate a kernel of up to 1MB in size
 - boot into Expert Mode unless boot disk was generated by Mondo
 - exclude all softlinks from list of 'eligible' kernels
 - exclude kernels with 'vmlinux' in their names
-- removed A LOT of files from deplist.txt's dependency list; they are
-  listed in deplist.removed, in case you want to put them back :-)
-- excludes libX11, libXext, libXi, libgtk, libgdk ALWAYS, whether you
-  add them to deplist.txt or not; [cancel this by editing line 485]
+- removed A LOT of files from deplist.txt's dependency list; they are listed in deplist.removed, in case you want to put them back :-)
+- excludes libX11, libXext, libXi, libgtk, libgdk ALWAYS, whether you add them to deplist.txt or not; [cancel this by editing line 485]
 - rewrote AddFileToDir() to make it more efficient (but slower...)
-- strip chaff from binaries; strip comments from bash scripts; strip
-  comments from /etc/termcap
+- strip chaff from binaries; strip comments from bash scripts; strip comments from /etc/termcap
 
 v0.40 (2001-09-16)
-- if you use a softlink to your CD dev, e.g. /dev/cdrecorder->scd0,
-  then Mindi should handle it properly now (i.e. not bomb out)
-- if you have a large kernel & lots of modules loaded, Mindi will only
-      copy as many modules to the ramdisk as will _fit_ on a ramdisk that
-  will have to go alongside your kernel on a 2.88MB floppy disk
+- if you use a softlink to your CD dev, e.g. /dev/cdrecorder->scd0, then Mindi should handle it properly now (i.e. not bomb out)
+- if you have a large kernel & lots of modules loaded, Mindi will only copy as many modules to the ramdisk as will _fit_ on a ramdisk that will have to go alongside your kernel on a 2.88MB floppy disk
 - if your kernel does not support loopfs, Mindi will say so & abort
-- turned some warnings into fatal errors, to help the user to figure
-  out exactly why Mindi won't work on their kernel
+- turned some warnings into fatal errors, to help the user to figure out exactly why Mindi won't work on their kernel
 - changed mke2fs -N24 to -N32, to see if it helps braindead distros
 - Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
 - gone back to the old 'insert-my-modules' for now; it's more reliable
-- working on the 'insert-all-my-modules' script, to make it compatible
-  with a wider range of insane distros and kernels
-- dropped the '-c' option from LILO call
-    - removed cdrecord, mkisofs, vi, route and diff from deplist.txt
-- slowed down the 'split data between floppies' routine; made it
-  try harder to squeeze more data onto each floppy
-- excluding nvidia modules from the "insert-all-my-modules" script
-  because it sometimes causes freeze-ups
-- added code to copy your fstab, lilo.conf, etc. to a tarball which, in
-  the event of an error, Mindi will ask the user to e-mail me
+- working on the 'insert-all-my-modules' script, to make it compatible with a wider range of insane distros and kernels
+- dropped the '-c' option from LILO call - removed cdrecord, mkisofs, vi, route and diff from deplist.txt
+- slowed down the 'split data between floppies' routine; made it try harder to squeeze more data onto each floppy
+- excluding nvidia modules from the "insert-all-my-modules" script because it sometimes causes freeze-ups
+- added code to copy your fstab, lilo.conf, etc. to a tarball which, in the event of an error, Mindi will ask the user to e-mail me
 
 v0.39 (2001-09-08)
-- plays nicely with devfs, so long as your old /dev/hdX, /dev/sdX
-  softlinks are still there :-)
-- if your swap partition isn't mounted, Mindi will decide that it is
-      125MB; it used to abort but now it just warns & makes a good guess
+- plays nicely with devfs, so long as your old /dev/hdX, /dev/sdX softlinks are still there :-)
+- if your swap partition isn't mounted, Mindi will decide that it is 125MB; it used to abort but now it just warns & makes a good guess
 - testing the failsafe kernel & associated scripts
 - only use lilo's "-c" option if NOT a 2.88MB floppy disk image
 - copes better with .o, .gz, etc. module suffixes
 - better 'loaded modules / not loaded modules' feedback at boot-time
-- semi-forces isofs and ide-cd (not isofs.o and ide-cd.o); the former
-  will be more compatible with stock kernels - e.g. Red Hat, Mandrake;
-  also added vfat, fat & a few other modules to the list of 'foced'.
-- removed the '-c' switch from the call to LILO (some BIOSes don't
-  like it very much)
+- semi-forces isofs and ide-cd (not isofs.o and ide-cd.o); the former will be more compatible with stock kernels - e.g. Red Hat, Mandrake; also added vfat, fat & a few other modules to the list of 'foced'.
+- removed the '-c' switch from the call to LILO (some BIOSes don't like it very much)
 - removed chaff from ramdisk's /etc/login.defs, saving approx 7K
 - format the boot disks with -N 24 (was -N 64)
 - do not insist on CD #1 (at boot-time) if there is no 'CD #' marker
-- amend format-and-kludge-vfat; now, it will not abort if it cannot
-  find its entry in mountlist; it doesn't need to find the entry
-  anyway, except to check that the kludge works (which it does)
-- if user chooses to use Mindi's failsafe 2.4.9 kernel, Mindi will load
-  Mindi's versions of user's modules at boot-time
+- amend format-and-kludge-vfat; now, it will not abort if it cannot find its entry in mountlist; it doesn't need to find the entry anyway, except to check that the kludge works (which it does)
+- if user chooses to use Mindi's failsafe 2.4.9 kernel, Mindi will load Mindi's versions of user's modules at boot-time
 - make label-devices-as-necessary log its efforts
 - added e2label and tune2fs to deplist.txt
-- if you boot in Normal Mode, I'll call mondo-restore --interactive
-  instead of just mondo-restore
+- if you boot in Normal Mode, I'll call mondo-restore --interactive instead of just mondo-restore
 - replaced K7-compatible 2.4.7 kernel with a 586-comp'ble 2.4.9 kernel
 - improved the post-run clean-up
-- force the copying/loading of isofs.o and ide-cd.o, which enhances
-  Mindi's support for kernels that have modular CD-ROM support
-- Interactive Mode offers to edit /tmp/mountlist.txt before running
-  mondo-restore (good idea from F. Boon)
+- force the copying/loading of isofs.o and ide-cd.o, which enhances Mindi's support for kernels that have modular CD-ROM support
+- Interactive Mode offers to edit /tmp/mountlist.txt before running mondo-restore (good idea from F. Boon)
 - /dev/hd[e-h]* have been added to the ramdisk
-- disabled Cuckoo and Bootstrap Modes (they weren't doing anything
-  anyway & were probably confusing some users)
-- removed 'edit mountlist?' question (because mondo-restore takes
-  care of that now, via a user-friendly mountlist editor)
+- disabled Cuckoo and Bootstrap Modes (they weren't doing anything anyway & were probably confusing some users)
+- removed 'edit mountlist?' question (because mondo-restore takes care of that now, via a user-friendly mountlist editor)
 - included a copy of mondo-manual.html
-- only kludge /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 (if vfat, of course);
-  otherwise, use regular mkfs.vfat
+- only kludge /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 (if vfat, of course); otherwise, use regular mkfs.vfat
 - use mkfs.dos if mkfs.vfat does not exist
 - moved some scripts from rootfs.tgz to Mondo's restore-scripts.tgz
@@ -842 +672 @@
 - updated the README to emphasize that the scripts are deprecated
 - when displaying mountlist on screen, make it easier to read
-- changed most 'echo's to 'LogIt()'s; log most screen output to
-  /var/log/mindi.log
-- user can now use a stock 2.4.7 kernel (which comes with Mindi)
-  if the user's distro's kernel isn't right for a boot disk
-
-v0.37 (2001-08-11)
-    - changed the boot screen a little bit
+- changed most 'echo's to 'LogIt()'s; log most screen output to /var/log/mindi.log
+- user can now use a stock 2.4.7 kernel (which comes with Mindi) if the user's distro's kernel isn't right for a boot disk
+
+v0.37 (2001-08-11) - changed the boot screen a little bit
 - changed the "cannot boot from CD-ROM" message (more informative now)
 - if an 'insmod'ed module cannot be found, warn but don't abort
-- that whole loop-mount/extract tgz to ramdisk thing --- if it fails,
-  abort, don't try to continue; also, ask if loopfs is supported by
-  kernel (if not, that might explain the error)
-- in addition to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules, also search
-  /root/oss/modules for kernel modules (Phillip Deackes)
-- run syslog and klogd at restore-time, to pipe sys & knl messages to
-  /tmp/mondo-restore.log
-- default restore-time boot mode is now 'interactive' (unless the
-  disk is a 1.72MB, in which case default mode is still 'expert')
-- if CDROM can't find itself (long story, re: El Torito) then the
-  script will say, "Your kernel is b0rken." This will reduce the
-  number of erroneous error reports that I receive from users
+- that whole loop-mount/extract tgz to ramdisk thing --- if it fails, abort, don't try to continue; also, ask if loopfs is supported by kernel (if not, that might explain the error)
+- in addition to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules, also search /root/oss/modules for kernel modules (Phillip Deackes)
+- run syslog and klogd at restore-time, to pipe sys & knl messages to /tmp/mondo-restore.log
+- default restore-time boot mode is now 'interactive' (unless the disk is a 1.72MB, in which case default mode is still 'expert')
+- if CDROM can't find itself (long story, re: El Torito) then the script will say, "Your kernel is b0rken." This will reduce the number of erroneous error reports that I receive from users
 - working on implementing Cuckoo Mode again
 
@@ -869 +689 @@
 - explicitily exluding /mnt/floppy and /floppy from mountlist.txt
 - warn if afio not found (Mondo needs afio)
-- optional --custom <temp dir> <out dir> switch added, to let the user
-  specify where the temp dirs and created images will be stored
-- changed /sbin/init to install modules _before_ trying to mount
-  CD-ROM (David Granz)
+- optional --custom <temp dir> <out dir> switch added, to let the user specify where the temp dirs and created images will be stored
+- changed /sbin/init to install modules _before_ trying to mount CD-ROM (David Granz)
 - create a gawk->awk shortcut at restore-time if necessary
 - specifically exclude /dev/fd0h1440 and /dev/fd0H1440 from mountlist
@@ -882 +700 @@
 - tarball/RPM no longer includes boot.b or lilo
 - mke2fs' output will be echoed to screen, if an error occurs
-- doubled the -N inode allocations and removed some of the -i inode
-  fiddles, just in case they are making Red Hat 7.1 choke
+- doubled the -N inode allocations and removed some of the -i inode fiddles, just in case they are making Red Hat 7.1 choke
 
 v0.34 (2001-07-25)
@@ -893 +710 @@
 v0.33 (2001-07-20)
 - excludes all devices containing ':/' (i.e. NFS mountlists)
-- the FORMAT/SYS replacement, "format-and-kludge-vfat" now writes
-  its logfile to /tmp/format-and-kludge-vfat.log
+- the FORMAT/SYS replacement, "format-and-kludge-vfat" now writes its logfile to /tmp/format-and-kludge-vfat.log
 - /etc/fstab now mounts floppies for read/write access by default
 - format-and-kludge-vfat should only write to log once now
@@ -901 +717 @@
 - mountlist is written to screen as well as mountlist.txt
 - tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
-- changed 'mkfs' lines, to format the loop-mounted files instead of the
-  device nodes which makes Mindi work better with kernels 2.4.6+
+- changed 'mkfs' lines, to format the loop-mounted files instead of the device nodes which makes Mindi work better with kernels 2.4.6+
 - Mindi can now handle kernels of up to 930K in size
-- sped up the process of spreading data files across data disks
-  by approx 20%
+- sped up the process of spreading data files across data disks by approx 20%
 
 v0.32 (2001-07-18)
@@ -912 +726 @@
 - add /etc/fstab and /etc/raidtab to deplist.txt
 - added /dev/md* to the ramdisk's /dev directory
-- modified MakeMountlist() to calculate correctly the sizes of
-  RAID partitions, if they are present in /etc/fstab
+- modified MakeMountlist() to calculate correctly the sizes of RAID partitions, if they are present in /etc/fstab
 - moved the 'LOOPDEVICE=...' code into the regular main() section
-- install-additional-tools makes a softlink '/etc/raidtab' that points
-  to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/raidtab; also, '/etc/fstab.orig' that points
-  to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/fstab
-- added line to 'install-additional-tools' that will delete the 
-  dummy modprobe before installing data from datadisk(s)
+- install-additional-tools makes a softlink '/etc/raidtab' that points to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/raidtab; also, '/etc/fstab.orig' that points to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/fstab
+- added line to 'install-additional-tools' that will delete the dummy modprobe before installing data from datadisk(s)
 - mkdir -p $outdir at the beginning, just in case...
 
-v0.31 (2001-07-16)
-    - included DoJ's patch to make Mindi play more nicely with devfs
+v0.31 (2001-07-16) - included DoJ's patch to make Mindi play more nicely with devfs
 - slightly better install.sh and README
 
@@ -932 +741 @@
 
 v0.29 (2001-07-14)
-- stopped the 'modprobe' errors that used to occur at the beginning;
-  they didn't mean anything but they did worry some novice users
+- stopped the 'modprobe' errors that used to occur at the beginning; they didn't mean anything but they did worry some novice users
 - removed losetup from rootfs.tgz (wasn't doing anything useful)
 - removed the 'txt-or-gui' stuff from Mindi (never used it anyway)
 - added clear to deplist.txt
-- moved rootfs.tgz's "mondo/" scripts to Mondo's "restore-scripts.tgz"
-  tarball; tarball will be untarred and contents added to the 
-  data disks at run-time, if Mindi finds the tarball
+- moved rootfs.tgz's "mondo/" scripts to Mondo's "restore-scripts.tgz" tarball; tarball will be untarred and contents added to the data disks at run-time, if Mindi finds the tarball
 - if user lacks fd0u1722 but has fd0h1722 then use the latter
 - boot-up msg is more informative
 - fixed obscure bug in find-and-mount-cdrom
-- better at coping with hda1/2/3/4 (normal people use hda1/5/6/7 but
-  if you really want to exhaust your primaries, well hey, your life)
+- better at coping with hda1/2/3/4 (normal people use hda1/5/6/7 but if you really want to exhaust your primaries, well hey, your life)
 - the 'outstring sucks!' message is now more informative
 
 v0.28 (2001-07-07)
-- if AddFileToDir() is called with a file that does not exist, Mindi
-  warns but does not abort
-- should work with gzipped modules (which end in '.o.gz') and
-  NVidia modules (which don't end in anything)
+- if AddFileToDir() is called with a file that does not exist, Mindi warns but does not abort
+- should work with gzipped modules (which end in '.o.gz') and NVidia modules (which don't end in anything)
 - should work with Red Hat's issue.net now
-- misc. cosmetic changes to Mondo boot-time and restore-phase scripts,
-  to make the visual output cleaner & more legible
-- insist-on-cd retracts the CD tray after asking for next CD, in case
-  the user did not close the drive before pressing <enter>
+- misc. cosmetic changes to Mondo boot-time and restore-phase scripts, to make the visual output cleaner & more legible
+- insist-on-cd retracts the CD tray after asking for next CD, in case the user did not close the drive before pressing <enter>
 - if unable to create 1.72MB boot disk then warn but do not abort
 - put creation date on the boot-up screen
-- create data disks with tarballs up to 1700KB in size; tries harder
-  to fill each data disk to the brim
-- changed the call to make ext3 partitions; now, it uses a call to
-  mkfs -t ext3 -j -Jsize=10 -q <device> (as requested by ext3 manual)
+- create data disks with tarballs up to 1700KB in size; tries harder to fill each data disk to the brim
+- changed the call to make ext3 partitions; now, it uses a call to mkfs -t ext3 -j -Jsize=10 -q <device> (as requested by ext3 manual)
 - tested w/ext3; works fine
-- install-additional-tools doesn't call sync until after all softlinks
-  have been finalized; that's to make sure we call the _right_ sync
+- install-additional-tools doesn't call sync until after all softlinks have been finalized; that's to make sure we call the _right_ sync
 - ramdisk is now (size of all files in data disks PLUS 8192) KB
 - RPM and SRPM published
 - mount CDROM at start of untar-me, just in case it wasn't mounted
-- when restoring selectively, log the archives that have matches
-  & the number of matches (inc. if zero)
+- when restoring selectively, log the archives that have matches & the number of matches (inc. if zero)
 
 v0.26 (2001-07-05)
 - has been tested with XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, ext2 and vfat
 - compatible (but not tested) with ext3
-- better at finding your kernel, even if you have several kernels
-  of the same version (now checks the build date, too)
+- better at finding your kernel, even if you have several kernels of the same version (now checks the build date, too)
 - better file-spreading algorithm; a little faster; much more reliable
 - includes a copy of LILO, to make the boot disks properly
@@ -982 +778 @@
 - compare-me uses 'insist-on-cd' instead of internal subroutine
 - it looks as if Mindi can actually cope with 920K kernels now :)
-- fixed some silly multi-CD bugs that would stop big files from being
-  restored if they were spread across CD's
+- fixed some silly multi-CD bugs that would stop big files from being restored if they were spread across CD's
 
 v0.25 (2001-07-04)
@@ -992 +787 @@
 - replace all libc5 tools with libc6 (user's) tools at restore-time
 - added diff to deplist.txt
-- copy io.sys and msdos.sys (if found) to data disk(s) at
-  run-time; softlinks them to /*.sys at boot-time
-- fixed some vfat formatting-related issues w/Embleer (always tricky);
-  the kludge's error-handling is better and its exit is more graceful
+- copy io.sys and msdos.sys (if found) to data disk(s) at run-time; softlinks them to /*.sys at boot-time
+- fixed some vfat formatting-related issues w/Embleer (always tricky); the kludge's error-handling is better and its exit is more graceful
 - say 'type nuke to restore automatically' in msg if Mondo called me
-- backup all modules, not just the ones present/loaded at run-time;
-  the loaded modules go on boot disk but ALL go on data disk
+- backup all modules, not just the ones present/loaded at run-time; the loaded modules go on boot disk but ALL go on data disk
 - reduced the max data per disk from 1700 to 1680, to suit ext2's needs
 - DidMondoCallMe() replaces 'ps ax | grep | blah blah'
@@ -1010 +802 @@
 - generates lilo.conf on-the-fly; no default/template file anymore
 - copies io.sys and msdos.sys to the CD (if you have them)
-- add the embleer tarballs to mindi-0.xx.tgz, so that users can
-  format and make bootable msdos/Win9x partitions
+- add the embleer tarballs to mindi-0.xx.tgz, so that users can format and make bootable msdos/Win9x partitions
 - added printf and hdparm to deplist.txt
 - incorporated Bruno Cornec's Mondo 0.991 scripts in Mindi
@@ -1036 +827 @@
 - don't add a ramdisk; use rootfs & that's it
 - dependency-calculator runs approx. twice as fast as in v0.20
-- tested with Linux Mandrake 8.0; works well, if you recompile
-  kernel to include floppy disk support (which LM8's kernel does not)
+- tested with Linux Mandrake 8.0; works well, if you recompile kernel to include floppy disk support (which LM8's kernel does not)
 - supports bigger kernels now, up to 900K in size
 - deplist.txt may now include directories, not just files
@@ -1045 +835 @@
 - copies user's /dev/fd0* devices to boot disk
 - calls Mindi's copy of syslinux, not user's copy
-- use modules' paths, e.g. instead of just 'insmod fubar', use
-  'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac117/vfat/fubar.o'
-- in boot.msg, XXXXX is part 1 of the 2nd line, YYYYY is part 2 of
-  the 2nd line, and ZZZZZ is Mindi's version# (in the 1st line)
+- use modules' paths, e.g. instead of just 'insmod fubar', use 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac117/vfat/fubar.o'
+- in boot.msg, XXXXX is part 1 of the 2nd line, YYYYY is part 2 of the 2nd line, and ZZZZZ is Mindi's version# (in the 1st line)
 
 v0.21 (2001-06-30)

branches/2.0.8/mondo/ChangeLog

@@ -3 +3 @@
 MONDO CHANGES
 
+2.0.8-4 (2006-06-10)
+- nfsmount option added to allow redeployment from another NFS server (Bruno Cornec)
+
 2.0.8-3 (2006-06-07)
-- Fix a bug in -I and -E handling !!
-  (Paolo Bernardoni <bernardoni_at_sysnet.it>/Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix permissions for autorun
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fox delivery problems for tar files with too restrictive umask
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix parsing of DHCP information in start-nfs script
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- Fix a bug in -I and -E handling !!  (Paolo Bernardoni <bernardoni_at_sysnet.it>/Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix permissions for autorun (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fox delivery problems for tar files with too restrictive umask (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix parsing of DHCP information in start-nfs script (Andree Leidenfrost)
 
 2.0.8-2 (2006-06-02)
-- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment (Bruno Cornec)
 
 2.0.8-1 (2006-05-25)
 - new build process (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused) (Bruno Cornec)
 - Support of dm and LVM v2 (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - New mr_strtok functionn added and used for dm support (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- Complete doc is now a separate package. mondo still contains the 
-  man pages and howto in minimal useful formats
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- Complete doc is now a separate package. mondo still contains the man pages and howto in minimal useful formats (Bruno Cornec)
 - HOWTO now contains a new chapter on unattended support for mondo
 - Increase size (4 times) of include|exclude variables
 - Fix a bug on -I and -E not working with multiple parameters
-- Fix a bug in verify for NFS by swapping nfs_remote_dir and isodir when
-  assembling name for image file to verify
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- Fix mondo when restoring filenames containing blanks 
-  (still a problem for filenames with ')
-  (Bruno Cornec)
-- Fix a RPM generation bug for rh7.3 (i386-redhat-linux prefix for binaries)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a bug in verify for NFS by swapping nfs_remote_dir and isodir when assembling name for image file to verify (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- Fix mondo when restoring filenames containing blanks (still a problem for filenames with ') (Bruno Cornec)
+- Fix a RPM generation bug for rh7.3 (i386-redhat-linux prefix for binaries) (Bruno Cornec)
 
 2.0.7 (2006-03-10)
-- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed 
-  (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+- useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
 - Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- Add the actual format to messages after calls to function
-  is_this_a_valid_disk_format() about unsupported formats.
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- Abort|Warn when one of the include|exclude dirs (-I|-E) does not exist 
-  (Bruno Cornec/Jeffs)
-- Replaced partimagehack with ntfsclone from ntfsprogs package.
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- Add the actual format to messages after calls to function is_this_a_valid_disk_format() about unsupported formats.  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- Abort|Warn when one of the include|exclude dirs (-I|-E) does not exist (Bruno Cornec/Jeffs)
+- Replaced partimagehack with ntfsclone from ntfsprogs package. (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - use df -P everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
 - Paypal incitations removed (Andree Leidenfrost)
@@ -55 +40 @@
 - no shared librairies and no X11 anymore (were useless) (Bruno Cornec)
 - files > 2GB are now really supported (Andree Leidenfrost)
-- new SGML based Mondo Rescue documentation + new Web site 
-  (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
+- new SGML based Mondo Rescue documentation + new Web site (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
 - mondoarchive aborts when 'mindi --findkernel' gives a fatal error (See also Debian bug #352323.) (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - /tmp not excluded anymore from backup (Bruno Cornec)
@@ -70 +54 @@
 - fix to force growisofs to use speed=1 for DVD burning (Philippe De Muyter)
 - now handles cifs correctly (Bruno Cornec)
-- fix issue where mondoarchive ejects CD/DVD despite writing iso images 
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- fix issue where mondoarchive ejects CD/DVD despite writing iso images (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - Add -P option to df calls (Andree Leidenfrost/Chuan-kai Lin)
 - fix usage of joint -B and -m options (Andree Leidenfrost/Efraim Feinstein)
-- Quadrupled ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM from 500 to 2000 for mondorestore's filebrowser
-  (Andree Leidenfrost)
+- Quadrupled ARBITRARY_MAXIMUM from 500 to 2000 for mondorestore's filebrowser (Andree Leidenfrost)
 - remove the renice of mondoarchive (Hugo Rabson)
-- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) 
-  (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
-- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball)
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
+- manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball) (Bruno Cornec)
 - disable x11 build by default (Bruno Cornec)
 - remove sbminst (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost)
 - use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
 - exports MONDO_LIB (Bruno Cornec)
-- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0, 
-  mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
-- interactive mode now asks for image size and prefix in NFS mode 
-  (Gallig Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
+- RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0, mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger)
+- interactive mode now asks for image size and prefix in NFS mode (Gallig Renaud/Bruno Cornec)
 - iso-prefix should be read in iso mode even when -H not given (Stan Benoit)
 - VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec)
-- many code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements 
-  (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
+- many code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec)
 
 v2.05 (2005-11-19)
@@ -101 +78 @@
 
 v2.04_berlios (2005-10-30)
-- Add -p option to generate ISO images file names with prefix. The new default
-  name for ISO images is mondorescue-1.iso, ... For PXE environment, you have
-  to use the prefix option on the command line (read README.pxe) 
-  (Bruno Cornec)
+- Add -p option to generate ISO images file names with prefix. The new default name for ISO images is mondorescue-1.iso, ... For PXE environment, you have to use the prefix option on the command line (read README.pxe) (Bruno Cornec)
 - Mandrake 2005 support (Bruno Cornec)
 - NFS patches (Yann Aubert <technique@alixen.fr>)
-- mondorestore shouldn't now ask final questions with -H 
-  (this is an unattended mode) (Bruno Cornec)
+- mondorestore shouldn't now ask final questions with -H (this is an unattended mode) (Bruno Cornec)
 
 v2.04 (2005-05-03)
-- made mondo more clever about finding its home. Avoids mondo considering
-  directories like '/usr/share/doc/momdo' as its home.
+- made mondo more clever about finding its home. Avoids mondo considering directories like '/usr/share/doc/momdo' as its home.
 
 v2.03 (2004-09-29)
@@ -119 +91 @@
 
 v2.02 (2004-07-21)
-- instead of using 'dd' to erase partition table, delete existing
-  partitions w/ the same call to fdisk that is used to create the
-  new partitions; this should avoids locking up the partition table
-- set bootable partition in the above same call to fdisk, for
-  the same reason (avoids locking up the partition table)
+- instead of using 'dd' to erase partition table, delete existing partitions w/ the same call to fdisk that is used to create the new partitions; this should avoids locking up the partition table
+- set bootable partition in the above same call to fdisk, for the same reason (avoids locking up the partition table)
 - better software RAID support
 - mount ext3 partitions as ext2 when restoring - better for Debian
@@ -131 +100 @@
 v2.01 (2004-06-21)
 - fixed cvs for SuSE systems
-- fixed NTFS backup/restore bug relating to partimagehack
-  log file overflow and NTFS v non-NTFS differentiation
+- fixed NTFS backup/restore bug relating to partimagehack log file overflow and NTFS v non-NTFS differentiation
 - more reliable extraction of config info from CDs, floppies
 - better support of ISO dirs at restore-time (Conor Daly)
@@ -157 +125 @@
 - added support for boot/root multi floppies
 - call 'mt' to set block size to 32K before opening in/out tape
-- updated mondo-prep.c to create each disk's partitions all at once
-  (one call per drive) instead of one call to fdisk per partition
-- when extracting cfg file and mountlist from all.tar.gz (tape copy),
-  use block size of INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE, not TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE
+- updated mondo-prep.c to create each disk's partitions all at once (one call per drive) instead of one call to fdisk per partition
+- when extracting cfg file and mountlist from all.tar.gz (tape copy), use block size of INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE, not TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE
 - added star and rudimentary SELinux support
 - fixed lots of bugs
-- all logging now goes to /var/log/mondo-archive.log, with symlink to
-  /tmp/mondo-restore.log for restore-time log-tracking
+- all logging now goes to /var/log/mondo-archive.log, with symlink to /tmp/mondo-restore.log for restore-time log-tracking
 - added grub-install.patched
 - removed embleer & other binaries
@@ -173 +138 @@
 - fixed chmod/chown bug (Jens Richter)
 - ask user to confirm NFS mountpoint in Interactive Mode
-- rewritten format_everything() to make sure LVMs, RAIDs and
-  regular partitions are prepped in the correct order
+- rewritten format_everything() to make sure LVMs, RAIDs and regular partitions are prepped in the correct order
 - better magicdev support
 - rewritten external binary caller subroutine
@@ -181 +145 @@
 - fixed multi-tape support
 - re-implemented -D and -J
-- fixed bug in extract_config_file_from_ramdisk() which
-  affected tape+floppy users
-- updated is_incoming_block_valid() to make it
-  return end-of-tape if >300 flotsam blocks
+- fixed bug in extract_config_file_from_ramdisk() which affected tape+floppy users
+- updated is_incoming_block_valid() to make it return end-of-tape if >300 flotsam blocks
 - unmount CD-ROM before burning (necessary for RH8/9)
 - fixed some stray assert()'s
@@ -190 +152 @@
 - make user remove floppy/CD before restoring interactively from tape
 - fixed bug in am_I_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
-- added code to nuke_mode() to make sure NFS 
-  (backup) share is mounted in Nuke Mode
+- added code to nuke_mode() to make sure NFS (backup) share is mounted in Nuke Mode
 - improved tape device detection code
 - better GRUB support
@@ -211 +172 @@
 - fixed RAID-related bug in where_is_root_mounted()
 - ISO tweaks
-- fixed silly bug in load_filelist() which stopped
-  funny German filenames from being handled properly
+- fixed silly bug in load_filelist() which stopped funny German filenames from being handled properly
 - misc fixes (Michael Hanscho's friend)
 - added rudimentary support for SME
@@ -226 +186 @@
 - post_param_configuration() --- store iso-dev and isodir
 - added post-nuke-sample.tgz to package
-- Nuke Mode now checks mountlist against hardware; offer user
-  opportunity to edit mountlist if insane; if user declines, abort
+- Nuke Mode now checks mountlist against hardware; offer user opportunity to edit mountlist if insane; if user declines, abort
 - added lots of assert()'s and other checks
 - ran code thru Valgrind to catch & fix some memory leaks
-- made mondo-restore.c smaller by moving some subroutines to
-  common/libmondo-raid.c and mondorestore/mondo-rstr-compare.c
-- added '-Q' flag, to let user test mondoarchive's ability
-  to find their boot loader and type
+- made mondo-restore.c smaller by moving some subroutines to common/libmondo-raid.c and mondorestore/mondo-rstr-compare.c
+- added '-Q' flag, to let user test mondoarchive's ability to find their boot loader and type
 - improved which_boot_loader()
-- when burning or comparing to a CD, defeat autorun if it is
-  running, to avoid confusing mondoarchive and the user
-- if original backup media no longer available at boot-time
-  then offer user chance to choose another media source
-- when booting, type 'nuke noresize' to nuke w/o resizing
-  mountlist to fill your drives
+- when burning or comparing to a CD, defeat autorun if it is running, to avoid confusing mondoarchive and the user
+- if original backup media no longer available at boot-time then offer user chance to choose another media source
+- when booting, type 'nuke noresize' to nuke w/o resizing mountlist to fill your drives
 - add 'textonly' when booting, to avoid using Newt gui
 - run nice(20) to prioritize mondoarchive at start
-- don't pause and wait for next blank CD at backup-time
-  unless necessary (e.g. previous CD has not been removed)
+- don't pause and wait for next blank CD at backup-time unless necessary (e.g. previous CD has not been removed)
 - get_phys_size_of_drive() --- better support of older drives
 - don't eject if "donteject" is in kernel's command line
@@ -268 +221 @@
 - add '/' to custom filelist as workaround for obscure bug
 - ask user speed of CDRW if writing to CD
-- find_cdrom_device() --- if nonexistent/not found then
-  make sure to return '' as dev str and 1 as res
+- find_cdrom_device() --- if nonexistent/not found then make sure to return '' as dev str and 1 as res
 - tweaked restore scripts tgz
 - cleaned up find_cdrom_device()
-- if user creates /usr/share/mondo/payload.tgz then untar
-  payload to CD at backup-time
+- if user creates /usr/share/mondo/payload.tgz then untar payload to CD at backup-time
 - fixed insist_on_this_cd_number()
 - fixed am_i_in_disaster_recovery_mode()
@@ -281 +232 @@
 - fixed nfs support
 - fixed iso support
-- at restore-time, only sort mountlist internally, 
-  in mount_all_devices() and unmount_all_devices() 
+- at restore-time, only sort mountlist internally, in mount_all_devices() and unmount_all_devices() 
 - fixed cosmetic bug in label-partitions-as-necessary
 - updated documentation
@@ -298 +248 @@
 - sensibly_set_tmpdir_and_scratchdir() --- exclude smb and smbfs
 - better logging by eval_call_to_make_ISO()
-- accept -J <fname> to let user provide their own fs catalog
-  instead of -I <paths> to backup
-- if dir excluded with -E or included with -I and dir is actually
-  a softlink then exclude/include the dir pointed to, as well
+- accept -J <fname> to let user provide their own fs catalog instead of -I <paths> to backup
+- if dir excluded with -E or included with -I and dir is actually a softlink then exclude/include the dir pointed to, as well
 - better location for manpage
-- adjusted block size of tarball at start of tape, to help
-  users w/ broken tape driver firmware
+- adjusted block size of tarball at start of tape, to help users w/ broken tape driver firmware
 - sort -u fstab after modifying it
 - if backup type is nfs then don't estimate noof media
@@ -319 +266 @@
 - wipe only the partition table (not MBR) when repartitioning drives
 - ignore lilo.conf.anaconda when looking for lilo.conf file
-- accepts '-l RAW' to backup/restore original boot sector instead
-  of running grub or lilo to init it after restoring
+- accepts '-l RAW' to backup/restore original boot sector instead of running grub or lilo to init it after restoring
 - fixed&updated stabgrub-me script; software RAID + GRUB work now
 - mount/unmount /boot partition for Gentoo 1.2 users
@@ -326 +272 @@
 - disabled spurious warnings
 - unmount/remount supermounts at start/end of live restore, if nec.
-- cleaned up mondo's tape block handling (now, TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE=128K
-  and I've added INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE=32K variable for buffering)
+- cleaned up mondo's tape block handling (now, TAPE_BLOCK_SIZE=128K and I've added INTERNAL_TAPE_BLK_SIZE=32K variable for buffering)
 - added Makefile
 - added -l RAW option, to backup and restore original MBR
@@ -364 +309 @@
 - fixed "Can't find first ISO when verifying nonbootable ISO" bug
 - multithreaded make_afioballs_and_images()
-- tmpdir and scratchdir set sensibly whether mondoarchive is called with
-  command-line parameters or not
-- fixed bug in strip_spaces() which stopped it from handling
-  small strings correctly - affected mountlist editor
-- create a repaired copy of grub-install which is RAID-friendly;
-  use it when initializing boot sector with run_grub()
+- tmpdir and scratchdir set sensibly whether mondoarchive is called with command-line parameters or not
+- fixed bug in strip_spaces() which stopped it from handling small strings correctly - affected mountlist editor
+- create a repaired copy of grub-install which is RAID-friendly; use it when initializing boot sector with run_grub()
 - fixed bug in mondo-makefilelist
 
@@ -387 +329 @@
 - unmount/remount /mnt/floppy before/after backing up, if Mandrake
 - restructured the source files
-- fixed serious bug in line 1546 - should have been !=, not ==; stopped
-  mondorestore from correctly restoring big files
+- fixed serious bug in line 1546 - should have been !=, not ==; stopped mondorestore from correctly restoring big files
 - added '#include <signal.h>' to my-stuff.h
 - exclude "incheckentry xwait()" from changed.files
@@ -395 +336 @@
 - insist on tape #1 when start verifying
 - added internal buffering, replacing the external 'buffer' exe
-- if differential backup then don't permit formatting or fdisking,
-  whether Interactive or Nuke mode
-- if mondorestore is run on live filesystem (or from ramdisk) without
-  parameters then mondorestore will ask which backup media (tape, CD, etc.)
-  was used; it will read the config file from the media and proceed from there
+- if differential backup then don't permit formatting or fdisking, whether Interactive or Nuke mode
+- if mondorestore is run on live filesystem (or from ramdisk) without parameters then mondorestore will ask which backup media (tape, CD, etc.) was used; it will read the config file from the media and proceed from there
 - if tape streamer is softlink then resolve it first
 - incorporate post-nuke tarball
-- if user doesn't specify tape size, proceed anyway; behave intelligently
-  in the event of end-of-tape
-- prefix bkpinfo->restore_path to biggiefile fname before generating
-  checksum & comparing to archived biggiefile
-- if /etc/lilo.conf not found not /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda found
-  then create a softlink from the former to the latter, to work
-  around RH7.3's b0rken LILO support
+- if user doesn't specify tape size, proceed anyway; behave intelligently in the event of end-of-tape
+- prefix bkpinfo->restore_path to biggiefile fname before generating checksum & comparing to archived biggiefile
+- if /etc/lilo.conf not found not /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda found then create a softlink from the former to the latter, to work around RH7.3's b0rken LILO support
 - LFS support (mharris, michele, hugo)
 - fixed verify bug --- CD#1 was being verified again & again & ...
@@ -416 +350 @@
 - better handling of bigfiles' checksums, perms and owns
 - delete final filelist if <=2 bytes long
-- if kernel not found and mondo in graphics mode then popup and ask
-  for kernel path+filename
+- if kernel not found and mondo in graphics mode then popup and ask for kernel path+filename
 - misc clean-ups (Troff)
 - noninteractivity-related & misc clean-ups (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
@@ -431 +364 @@
 - cleaned up live filesystem restoration
 - permit '-0' (no compression) flag
-- if user restores selectively (picks some files to be restored) then
-  large files archived during '-L' (LZO) backup will now be restored properly
+- if user restores selectively (picks some files to be restored) then large files archived during '-L' (LZO) backup will now be restored properly
 - fixed bug in make-me-bootable
 - don't change /tmp's permissions unless it doesn't exist & has to be created
 - changed $i to $j in mondo-makefilelist (Karsten)  
-- fixed 'I refuse to write floppy images to /dev/fd0 because its size is
-  not apparent from its filename' bug
+- fixed 'I refuse to write floppy images to /dev/fd0 because its size is not apparent from its filename' bug
 - disabled 'nr-failed-disks' entry in raidtab generator
 - added '-o' flag to let user choose LILO as CD/floppy's boot loader
@@ -446 +377 @@
 - mondorestore makes /var/run/console in case user excluded it
 - the -s switch now accepts multiple sizes, one per tape/CD
-- added -u switch for streaming to device; like -t (tape) but without
-  various error checks; use with caution
+- added -u switch for streaming to device; like -t (tape) but without various error checks; use with caution
 - bugfixes; cleaned up code (Troff)
 - changed lockfiles from static to random filenames
@@ -454 +384 @@
 - added -follow to search for home (Bruno Vidal)
 - unmount/remount CD-ROM at start/end if supermounted
-- delete old /tmp/filelist.full,biggielist.txt if restoring to
-  live filesystem
+- delete old /tmp/filelist.full,biggielist.txt if restoring to live filesystem
 - if Mindi aborted then show last 6 lines of its log before mondoarchive aborts
 - reformatted, redistributed source code (Stan Benoit)
@@ -467 +396 @@
 
 v1.42-1 (2002-04-07)
-- mondorestore may now be run on live filesystem, i.e. user does not
-  have to reboot in order to restore data; works for CD's and tapes;
-  NFS and ISO restores will be supported at a later date
+- mondorestore may now be run on live filesystem, i.e. user does not have to reboot in order to restore data; works for CD's and tapes; NFS and ISO restores will be supported at a later date
 - fixed restore-time RAID-handling bugs
 - added -E patch to exclude files and/or dirs properly (Andy Glass)
 - cat /proc/cpuinfo and run uname -r; save output to logfile at backup-time
 - fixed minor bug in stablilo-me
-- if /tmp/fstab.new exists then use _it_ instead of /tmp/fstab to label
-  ext2 or ext3 partitions
+- if /tmp/fstab.new exists then use _it_ instead of /tmp/fstab to label ext2 or ext3 partitions
 - bootable CD's now use SYSLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
 - don't pclose() tape after calling closein_tape(): the latter does it already
@@ -487 +413 @@
 v1.40-7 (2002-03-10)
 - if '-L' then test for lzop; abort if not present
-- if Mondo cannot figure out which boot loader the user is using,
-  tell the user to read the manual and mention -l, -f switches
+- if Mondo cannot figure out which boot loader the user is using, tell the user to read the manual and mention -l, -f switches
 - abort if ramdisk not available
 - updated man page (Mikael Hultgren)
@@ -509 +434 @@
 - added updated docs (Cafeole, Randy Delfs, Stan Benoit et al)
 - added pico to restore-scripts.tgz; deprecated some scripts
-- if restoring to /dev/ida/* or /dev/cciss/* then drop the 'p'
-  before trying to discover the size of the partition itself
+- if restoring to /dev/ida/* or /dev/cciss/* then drop the 'p' before trying to discover the size of the partition itself
 - support pathnames containing spaces (KirkJT)
 - added -C switch, to treat CD burner almost as a tape streamer
@@ -540 +464 @@
 - changed get_phys_size_of_drive() to read value from fdisk, not dmesg
 - if hard disk does not exist then warn user when editing mountlist
-- if boot+floppy disk images were not created then don't offer to write them
-  to disks; instead, mention the mindi.iso bootable CD images   
+- if boot+floppy disk images were not created then don't offer to write them to disks; instead, mention the mindi.iso bootable CD images    
 - exclude each partition's .autofsck from backup
 - fixed bug in CD restoration progress form
@@ -556 +479 @@
 - source code has been beautified (Stan Benoit)
 - makefile, Config implemented (Stan Benoit)
-- use /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg instead of all kinds of silly /tmp files
-  at boot-time; slowly migrating to a proper /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg file
+- use /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg instead of all kinds of silly /tmp files at boot-time; slowly migrating to a proper /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg file
 - changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
 - patch to make it easier to install Mondo almost anywhere (Ian Mortimer)
-- proper, one-char switches replace the long-winded multi-char switches
-  of 1.36 and earlier
-- migrating from lots of /tmp files in ramdisk to a single configuration
-  file on ramdisk, at /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg
+- proper, one-char switches replace the long-winded multi-char switches of 1.36 and earlier
+- migrating from lots of /tmp files in ramdisk to a single configuration file on ramdisk, at /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg
 - estimates the number of media required by this backup session
 - changed 'retval+=load_raidtab()' to 'load_raidtab()'
@@ -572 +492 @@
 - if the user specifies boot loader or device, record those settings
 - fixed cdrecord-related bug in .spec file
-- if backing up specific paths - e.g. /usr/local/bin - then include
-  /usr and /usr/local/ in filelist; don't backup /usr/* but do recreate
-  /usr and /usr/local/; this is to help the selective restore subroutine
+- if backing up specific paths - e.g. /usr/local/bin - then include /usr and /usr/local/ in filelist; don't backup /usr/* but do recreate /usr and /usr/local/; this is to help the selective restore subroutine
 - user's BIOS is assumed not to be able to handle LILO's sector-seek merging
 - switches --broken-bios, --debug and --chunk-size have been removed
@@ -610 +528 @@
 - if bzip is <v0.99 then abort
 - if hard disk fills to capacity then abort
-- --post-nuke <tarball> will incorporate a tarball of tools and data files
-  of the user's choosing in the boot CD/floppies; the tarball must contain
-  an executable, 'post-nuke', which will be called at the end of Nuke Mode
+- --post-nuke <tarball> will incorporate a tarball of tools and data files of the user's choosing in the boot CD/floppies; the tarball must contain an executable, 'post-nuke', which will be called at the end of Nuke Mode
 - --text-mode forces Mondo Archive to use text only (no newt or ncurses)
 - the deprecated scripts have now been disabled
-- boot floppy will use 'safe' LILO calls; boot CD will use 'fast' LILO calls
-  unless --broken-bios is supplied in call to Mondo
+- boot floppy will use 'safe' LILO calls; boot CD will use 'fast' LILO calls unless --broken-bios is supplied in call to Mondo
 - cdrecord's buffer is now 4 MB (was 16 MB)
 - tape support has been rewritten from ground up
@@ -634 +549 @@
 - fixed bugs in actually_verify_the_tapes()
 - fixed some popen/pclose mismatches
-- no longer run compare_a_biggiefile() right after restore_a_biggiefile(),
-  as it can upset the restoration of biggiefiles which are spread across CD's
+- no longer run compare_a_biggiefile() right after restore_a_biggiefile(), as it can upset the restoration of biggiefiles which are spread across CD's
 
 v1.33-8 (2001-12-19)
@@ -679 +593 @@
 - cosmetic fixes to mondo-prep.c and mondo-newt.c
 - put quotes around chmod's parameter
-- subtract 5% from reported maximum storage capacity of drives, when checking
-  that the parttions will fit; some drives lie about their max cap
+- subtract 5% from reported maximum storage capacity of drives, when checking that the parttions will fit; some drives lie about their max cap
 - stablilo-me no longer tries to mark partitions as bootable
 - better exclusion of /var/log/pacct
 - tape users can now use --verify to verify archives w/o rebooting
 - checksum calculated for every file backed up - for future expansion
-- implemented a _real_ --differential switch, to backup all files changed
-  or added since the last complete backup
+- implemented a _real_ --differential switch, to backup all files changed or added since the last complete backup
 
 v1.32-2 (2001-12-09)
 - if no RAID devices after editing mountlist then delete raidtab
 - don't try to mount RAID partitions (components of RAID dev)
-- don't add partitions to mountlist when extrapolating from mountlist
-  unless the partitions are not already present in mountlist
+- don't add partitions to mountlist when extrapolating from mountlist unless the partitions are not already present in mountlist
 - don't format partitions if partitioning failed
 - when user selects RAID level, establish whether said level is available
@@ -700 +611 @@
 - log_it() makes sure it only writes one \n on the end of each logged line
 - detects if user is using GRUB/LILO/other; abort if neither LILO nor GRUB
-- passes the boot loader's name and device to Mindi, to be available at
-  boot-time
-- if user successfully restores using Nuke or Interactive w/o error then Mondo
-  generates a random message, basically saying, "Cool."
+- passes the boot loader's name and device to Mindi, to be available at boot-time
+- if user successfully restores using Nuke or Interactive w/o error then Mondo generates a random message, basically saying, "Cool."
 - enlarged afio's "-M" parameter from 12M to 16M
-- if stablilo-me fails then restore the original lilo.conf and fstab before
-  offering user the opportunity to edit them (Dean Carpenter)
+- if stablilo-me fails then restore the original lilo.conf and fstab before offering user the opportunity to edit them (Dean Carpenter)
 - added ISO Mode, to let user restore from ISO images in directory
 - cosmetic fix to compare/restore phase windows
@@ -718 +626 @@
 - exclude each device's lost+found directory
 - mountlist editor now permits advanced editing of RAID devices
-- fixed a silly bug that was causing freeze-up on <1% of systems; if biggielist
-  was empty then sometimes mondo-archive would freeze when backing up big files
-  (cos there weren't any *g*)
+- fixed a silly bug that was causing freeze-up on <1% of systems; if biggielist was empty then sometimes mondo-archive would freeze when backing up big files (cos there weren't any *g*)
 - partition and set type in 2-stage process (was 1-stage)
 - cleaned up Compare Mode's logging a bit, to make it more legible
@@ -726 +632 @@
 - exclude ext3's .journal files from backup (yes, this time I really do)
 - '--my-kernel SUCKS' has been replaced with '--my-kernel FAILSAFE'
-- softlink mondo-restore to /usr/bin/ before calling Mindi, so that Mindi can
-  pick up mondo-restore and its depdendencies easily
+- softlink mondo-restore to /usr/bin/ before calling Mindi, so that Mindi can pick up mondo-restore and its depdendencies easily
 - copy mondo-restore to Mondo's temp dir before calling Mindi
 - don't try to compress MP3's, MPG's, WMV's or RA's
-- cleaned up mondo-newt.c; alphabetized the subroutines; moved some tools from
-  there to mondo-tools.c
-- mondo-tarme and mondo-restore are now compiled as dynamic executables; I
-  have amended install.sh and mondo-1.31.spec accordingly
+- cleaned up mondo-newt.c; alphabetized the subroutines; moved some tools from there to mondo-tools.c
+- mondo-tarme and mondo-restore are now compiled as dynamic executables; I have amended install.sh and mondo-1.31.spec accordingly
 - now make boot/data floppies at end of backup, not beginning
 - backup in alphabetical order now, not reverse-alpha
-- if Compare Mode reports changed files /var/* and /etc/mtab only then tell
-  the user their archives are good despite the differneces
+- if Compare Mode reports changed files /var/* and /etc/mtab only then tell the user their archives are good despite the differneces
 - cut back on excessively verbose logging at backup-time
 - when vacuum-packing a partition, describe it as "(max size)", not "(0 MB)"
 - if swap is already mounted, don't abort: just say, 'swap already mounted'
-- when unmounting all devices, don't try to unmount something if it's not even
-  mounted; if it's not mounted, say so but don't try to unmount it: you'll 
-  just end up looking very silly :)
+- when unmounting all devices, don't try to unmount something if it's not even mounted; if it's not mounted, say so but don't try to unmount it: you'll just end up looking very silly :)
 
 v1.30 (2001-11-28)
-- I have reorganized the C code, sorted the subroutines alphabetically, and
-  re-jigged Mondo's installation routines (inc. the RPM spec file) to reflect
-  the changes
-- check for mondo-restore's presence; if absent then abort & ask user to check
-  to see if Mondo was installed properly
+- I have reorganized the C code, sorted the subroutines alphabetically, and re-jigged Mondo's installation routines (inc. the RPM spec file) to reflect the changes
+- check for mondo-restore's presence; if absent then abort & ask user to check to see if Mondo was installed properly
 - always exclude /var/log/pacct from backup
 - optimal set size is now 24MB
 - install.sh will abort w/error if compilation of mondo-* fails
 - after creating the mountlist, put a copy in Mondo's tmp directory
-- each ext3 filesystem has a .journal file in its base directory; Mondo will
-  now exclude each of these journal files automatically
-- use the archived copy of LILO, not the copy from the restore-time ramdisk,
-  to configure the MBR
+- each ext3 filesystem has a .journal file in its base directory; Mondo will now exclude each of these journal files automatically
+- use the archived copy of LILO, not the copy from the restore-time ramdisk, to configure the MBR
 - size_of_file() now returns long long, not long
 - find mondo-archive and set MONDO_PATH accordingly
 - scratchdir is /home/mondo.scratch by default
-- at backup-time, run mondo-restore in test mode to make sure that the
-  executable is sane & will run OK at restore-time
+- at backup-time, run mondo-restore in test mode to make sure that the executable is sane & will run OK at restore-time
 
 v1.19 (2001-11-14)
@@ -770 +664 @@
 - at restore-time, always check for presence of decompressor; abort if notfound
 - run 'chmod -r 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp' after restoring
-- fixed bugs in Compare Mode:-
-  - missing else{}
-  - erroneous 'cannot add archive' error; res+=retval should have read
-    retval+=res (Tony Kim)
-- use 'umount /mnt/cdrom' instead of 'umount /dev/cdrom', to make it compatible
-  with busybox's umount command
-- fixed bug in mondo-archive which stopped Mondo from pausing to retry if the
-  CD/ISO fails the verification phase
+- fixed bugs in Compare Mode:- - missing else{} - erroneous 'cannot add archive' error; res+=retval should have read retval+=res (Tony Kim)
+- use 'umount /mnt/cdrom' instead of 'umount /dev/cdrom', to make it compatible with busybox's umount command
+- fixed bug in mondo-archive which stopped Mondo from pausing to retry if the CD/ISO fails the verification phase
 - modified compare_all_tarballs() in mondo-restore.c
-- if running interactively then offer to modify fstab and lilo.conf if user
-  says s/he has modified the mountlist
-- if mondo-tarme segfaults (as it does, on a _very_ few systems) then Mondo
-  picks up on the fact & reports it
-- when restoring, create /mnt/RESTORING/tmp before _and_ after restoring data,
-  just in case it is necessary; also set permissions okay
+- if running interactively then offer to modify fstab and lilo.conf if user says s/he has modified the mountlist
+- if mondo-tarme segfaults (as it does, on a _very_ few systems) then Mondo picks up on the fact & reports it
+- when restoring, create /mnt/RESTORING/tmp before _and_ after restoring data, just in case it is necessary; also set permissions okay
 - C code is now compiled 'O0' (without optimizations)
 - each CD's slices were being listed to screen; now, piped to /dev/null
@@ -794 +680 @@
 v1.17 (2001-10-20)
 - the deprecated scripts now work with LZO
-- if mondo-restore cannot mount all devices, it will _unmount_ whatever it did
-  mount, before it returns an error
+- if mondo-restore cannot mount all devices, it will _unmount_ whatever it did mount, before it returns an error
 - works with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel
 - cosmetic change to output (no more 'burning first/last CD' msgs)
 - abort if user uses '--use-lzo' but doesn't install LZO(P) first
 - changed --differential's \( and \) to ( and ) <-- thanks, Michael Moellney)
-- added Marcus Oberhumer's LZO to Mindi and Mondo; use '--use-lzo' switch
-  to activate this groovy new compression algorithm; it is not as efficient
-  as bzip2 but it is can take up to 50% less time than bzip2 to compress data
+- added Marcus Oberhumer's LZO to Mindi and Mondo; use '--use-lzo' switch to activate this groovy new compression algorithm; it is not as efficient as bzip2 but it is can take up to 50% less time than bzip2 to compress data
 - incorporated Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch
 - at restore-time, set biggiefiles to +x
@@ -808 +691 @@
 - don't report non-existent differences/errors between archives and filesystem
 - fixed bug in --differential switch (Michael Moellney)
-- scripts will no longer function unless gawk and printf are included in
-  Mindi's deplist.txt; add them if you want to use the scripts
+- scripts will no longer function unless gawk and printf are included in Mindi's deplist.txt; add them if you want to use the scripts
 
 v1.16 (2001-10-10)
 - default scratchdir is `pwd`/mondo.scratch.$$ (was mondo.scratch)
-- when asking user to send me a log file, warn them that the log file may
-  contain information which they do not want me to see but point out that I
-  cannot help much unless I have a copy of their log file
-- when comparing to or restoring from tape, only update the progree form
-  if/when I've just restored files; otherwise, I would screw up the time est.s
+- when asking user to send me a log file, warn them that the log file may contain information which they do not want me to see but point out that I cannot help much unless I have a copy of their log file
+- when comparing to or restoring from tape, only update the progree form if/when I've just restored files; otherwise, I would screw up the time est.s
 - increase afio's block count from 256 to 1024 when restoring from tape
 - plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros
-- when restoring or comparing, track progress by the archive# (N out of M),
-  not by the file#; the former is more reliable and useful than the latter
-- has been tested successfully with the following distros
-  - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel --- tape / CDR
-  - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel --- tape / CDR
-- tape streamers are now supported; use the '--write-tapes <dev> <sizeMB>'
-  switch, e.g. --write-tapes /dev/st0 4096
+- when restoring or comparing, track progress by the archive# (N out of M), not by the file#; the former is more reliable and useful than the latter
+- has been tested successfully with the following distros - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel --- tape / CDR - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel --- tape / CDR
+- tape streamers are now supported; use the '--write-tapes <dev> <sizeMB>' switch, e.g. --write-tapes /dev/st0 4096
 - LVM support is stabilizing
-- when mounting/unmounting partitions to be restored, don't forget to 
-  mount/unmount the swap partitions
+- when mounting/unmounting partitions to be restored, don't forget to mount/unmount the swap partitions
 - when zeroing a drive, use plain old C fopen/fputc/fclose, not 'dd'
-- after restoring data and running LILO, unmount (as usual) and then run
-  label-partitions-as-necessary, to set the ext2fs LABELs if it is appropriate
+- after restoring data and running LILO, unmount (as usual) and then run label-partitions-as-necessary, to set the ext2fs LABELs if it is appropriate
 - fixed bugs in selective restoration scripts and executable
-- fixed silly bug in hack-lilo; bug was triggered when I moved to Mandrake 8.1;
-  bug caused '/dev/fd0' entry in lilo.conf to become corrupted
-- if user tries to make a bootable rescue CD with the '--no-bkpath' switch then
-  politely direct them to Mindi :-)
+- fixed silly bug in hack-lilo; bug was triggered when I moved to Mandrake 8.1; bug caused '/dev/fd0' entry in lilo.conf to become corrupted
+- if user tries to make a bootable rescue CD with the '--no-bkpath' switch then politely direct them to Mindi :-)
 
 v1.15 (2001-09-28)
-- serialized the call to mondo-filelistchop.c; helps to improve visual feedback
-  (yeah, sounds weird but it's true)
+- serialized the call to mondo-filelistchop.c; helps to improve visual feedback (yeah, sounds weird but it's true)
 - the switches --differential and --exclude-paths should play nicely now
 - improved the logging a bit, esp. when ejecting or unmounting CD's
-- improved the visual feedback (specifically, the bar and percentage figures
-  indicating time spent & remaining)
+- improved the visual feedback (specifically, the bar and percentage figures indicating time spent & remaining)
 - experimental LVM support
 - fixed 'cannot eject CD' bug, which was caused by busybox's sync & umount
@@ -852 +721 @@
 - fail if user runs mondo-archive _from CD_; this is for the user's protection
 - fixed silly bug in mount-me (a crucial line was disabled)
-- working on stablilo-me, hack-lilo and hack-fstab to make sure they work 
-  with the new, busybox-based Mindi v0.41
-- Mindi v0.41 is very different from v0.40, internally anyway; so, I had to do
-  a lot of testing to make sure Mondo would play nicely with the new Mindi
+- working on stablilo-me, hack-lilo and hack-fstab to make sure they work with the new, busybox-based Mindi v0.41
+- Mindi v0.41 is very different from v0.40, internally anyway; so, I had to do a lot of testing to make sure Mondo would play nicely with the new Mindi
 
 v1.14 (2001-09-18)
 - if verify is enabled then verify each CD/ISO after writing it
-- fixed a quasi-bug in mondo/mount-me; this script used 'sort +1' which is
-  not supported by busybox; I've changed it to just plain old 'sort'
+- fixed a quasi-bug in mondo/mount-me; this script used 'sort +1' which is not supported by busybox; I've changed it to just plain old 'sort'
 - Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel
 - fixed bug in 'biggify-me' script; now, checksums will be verified
 - fixed bug in checksum comparison code (mondo-restore.c)
-- reimplemented '--verify' switch; now, user can verify ISO's or CD's against
-  the live filesystem, just for 'belt and braces' emotional security
+- reimplemented '--verify' switch; now, user can verify ISO's or CD's against the live filesystem, just for 'belt and braces' emotional security
 - improved the error-reporting at restore-time (if tarball cannot be accessed)
-- if user does not specify CD-R(W) drive's speed or device then Mondo will
-  try to locate the drive and will assume 4x speed
-- user may now type 'edit-mountlist' after booting, if they want to edit the
-  mountlist without risking accidentally wiping their hard disks
+- if user does not specify CD-R(W) drive's speed or device then Mondo will try to locate the drive and will assume 4x speed
+- user may now type 'edit-mountlist' after booting, if they want to edit the mountlist without risking accidentally wiping their hard disks
 - fixed a few silly typos in the error messages in mondo-tarme
 - updated the FAQ
 - added code to verify ISO images
-- used 'blank=fast' instead of '-blank fast' for backward-compatibility with
-  older versions of cdrecord
-- if nonzero value returned by Mondo, then Mondo creates a mondo.err.$$.tgz
-  tarball containing log files & stuff, which it tells the user to e-mail me
+- used 'blank=fast' instead of '-blank fast' for backward-compatibility with older versions of cdrecord
+- if nonzero value returned by Mondo, then Mondo creates a mondo.err.$$.tgz tarball containing log files & stuff, which it tells the user to e-mail me
 - when debugging, don't pause before running mondo-tarme; just run it
 - automatically exclude any file including '/vmmhiber.w9x' in its pathname
 - added Minix support (although I doubt anyone needs it)
-- ported mondo-tarme to C
-  - prettier interface at run-time (backup), giving better feedback
-  - obviates a mysterious, intermittent bug in bash itself
-  - shows '% done' when burning CD
+- ported mondo-tarme to C - prettier interface at run-time (backup), giving better feedback - obviates a mysterious, intermittent bug in bash itself - shows '% done' when burning CD
 - afio now has a 12MB FIFO buffer (was 16MB)
 - cdrecord now has a 20MB FIFO buffer (was 24MB)
@@ -897 +755 @@
 - mondo-tarme now uses -M 16m -t 4k in its call to afio, to improve performance
 - fixed mondo-restore.c's mkreiserfs call; ditto, prep-me's mkreiserfs call
-- fixed mondo-restore.c's compare_a_biggiefile() subroutine, which would
-  generate erroneous error messages
-- fixed mondo-archive.c's restore_a_biggiefile() and restore_all_biggiefiles()
-  subroutines; I can't get them to break but others can, so I've streamlined
-  the code to make them easier to debug and in theory more stable too
-- fixed 'hack-fstab' to make sure that non-LABELed partitions are correctly
-  moved/changed, etc.
+- fixed mondo-restore.c's compare_a_biggiefile() subroutine, which would generate erroneous error messages
+- fixed mondo-archive.c's restore_a_biggiefile() and restore_all_biggiefiles() subroutines; I can't get them to break but others can, so I've streamlined the code to make them easier to debug and in theory more stable too
+- fixed 'hack-fstab' to make sure that non-LABELed partitions are correctly moved/changed, etc.
 - fixed the 'space in big filename' bug (I think)
-- make Interactive Mode sort the mountlist (by partition size) before creating
-  the dirs and mounting the partitions to them
+- make Interactive Mode sort the mountlist (by partition size) before creating the dirs and mounting the partitions to them
 - fixed a slew of bugs related to Red Hat's LABEL= extensions
-- cleaned up mondo-restore.c and mondo-newt.c; replaced lots of arbitrary
-  limits and lengths with a small number of #define's
-- added some sample RAID0/1/5 raidtab (config) files to restore-scripts.tgz,
-  which will be restored to the ramdisk's /etc dir when the user boots from
-  the CD; this will only take up an extra 50K or so & will help any user
-  who is moving from non-RAID to RAID
+- cleaned up mondo-restore.c and mondo-newt.c; replaced lots of arbitrary limits and lengths with a small number of #define's
+- added some sample RAID0/1/5 raidtab (config) files to restore-scripts.tgz, which will be restored to the ramdisk's /etc dir when the user boots from the CD; this will only take up an extra 50K or so & will help any user who is moving from non-RAID to RAID
 - changed FIFO size to 20MB
-- only use the VFAT kludge on /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1; otherwise, even if
-  the partition type is VFAT, do a regular mkfs.vfat
+- only use the VFAT kludge on /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1; otherwise, even if the partition type is VFAT, do a regular mkfs.vfat
 - if mkfs.vfat doesn't exist, use mkfs.dos
 - only try to add 'LABEL=' to ext2 and ext3 partitions
 - moved a bunch of scripts from Mindi's rootfs.tgz to our restore-scripts.tgz
-- fixed bugs in mondo-restore.c, which would sometimes just sit there when
-  trying to compare or restore big files that were spread across CD's
-- Interactive Mode goes straight to 'mondo-restore --interactive' now, i.e.
-  the user doesn't have to choose Interactive once at boot and once within 
-  mondo-restore
+- fixed bugs in mondo-restore.c, which would sometimes just sit there when trying to compare or restore big files that were spread across CD's
+- Interactive Mode goes straight to 'mondo-restore --interactive' now, i.e.  the user doesn't have to choose Interactive once at boot and once within mondo-restore
 - better post-run clean-up
 - improved mondo-restore.c's error-reporting a little bit
-- stablilo-me (the script) now supports Red Hat's "LABEL=" extensions to
-  /etc/fstab, via the script, 'label-partitions-as-necessary'
+- stablilo-me (the script) now supports Red Hat's "LABEL=" extensions to /etc/fstab, via the script, 'label-partitions-as-necessary'
 - added a user-friendly mountlist editor to mondo-restore.c
 - added lots of sanity-checking to mountlist editor
@@ -937 +781 @@
 - amended the .spec file to be saner when building RPM's
 - archives are named '.afio.bz2' instead of '.tar.bz2'
-- mondo-archive, mondo-tarme, mondo-restore.c and the DEPRECATED scripts have
-  been amended accordingly
+- mondo-archive, mondo-tarme, mondo-restore.c and the DEPRECATED scripts have been amended accordingly
 - should be able to create up to 20 CD-R's per backup set now
 - moved a line within prep-me that was in the wrong place (thanks, Fran Boon!)
@@ -944 +787 @@
 - added 10-second delay before mondo-restore's Nuke Mode, to let the user abort
 - really fixed the '/mnt/RESTORING/tmp' permissions bug (thanks, Ang Tan!)
-- sometimes, bash gets all screwed up & won't let the user type 'continue' when
-  Mondo asks them to; if that happens, Mondo will detect it & use a different 
-  kind of mondo-askme; the new mondo-askme will check every 10 minutes for a
-  blank CD; if it's there, then the burn continues
+- sometimes, bash gets all screwed up & won't let the user type 'continue' when Mondo asks them to; if that happens, Mondo will detect it & use a different kind of mondo-askme; the new mondo-askme will check every 10 minutes for a blank CD; if it's there, then the burn continues
 - abort if isodir or scratchdir is a softlink
-- replaced mondo-askme with a good shell script, to work around flaws in
-  bash and/or kernel (don't know which)
-- added a failsafe kernel to Mindi, which means you don't have to make sure
-  your kernel is suitable for a boot disk; you can just use Mindi's instead
+- replaced mondo-askme with a good shell script, to work around flaws in bash and/or kernel (don't know which)
+- added a failsafe kernel to Mindi, which means you don't have to make sure your kernel is suitable for a boot disk; you can just use Mindi's instead
 - make+chop filelist _after_ calling Mindi
 - updated the FAQ
@@ -960 +798 @@
 - added -pad -sort to the call to mkisofs
 - stop saying, "N files differ so far" after comparing each tarball
-- updated the FAQ, to remind users that they can boot from floppy images if
-  their kernel does not have the right support of CD-ROM's, filesystems, etc.
+- updated the FAQ, to remind users that they can boot from floppy images if their kernel does not have the right support of CD-ROM's, filesystems, etc.
 - erroneous error-reporting by /mondo/biggify-me; fixed (David Granz)
 - don't estimate the time remaining unless >20 sets processed already
-- default set size (uncompressed) is now 8MB (was 12MB); when 8MB, seems 
-  to run more smoothly & a little quicker, too, at restore-time
+- default set size (uncompressed) is now 8MB (was 12MB); when 8MB, seems to run more smoothly & a little quicker, too, at restore-time
 - chmod 1777 /mnt/RESTORING/tmp after restoring/creating /tmp
 - dropped mondo-askme.c; using regular 'read' instead
@@ -971 +807 @@
 - cdrecord now uses a 16MB FIFO buffer (was 8MB)
 - fixed floating point error in mondo-restore (when showing progress)
-- when mondo-restore is called without params (e.g. by Interactive Mode), it
-  lets the user choose between nuke, interactive or compare (or abort)
+- when mondo-restore is called without params (e.g. by Interactive Mode), it lets the user choose between nuke, interactive or compare (or abort)
 - updated the FAQ
 - working on Cuckoo Mode...
@@ -979 +814 @@
 - default compression level is now 3 (was 2)
 - retry/fail/abort loop bug fixed
-- calls mindi with "--custom $TMP $scratchdir/images" to force mindi to use
-  my temp dir and to put the images in my 'images' folder
+- calls mindi with "--custom $TMP $scratchdir/images" to force mindi to use my temp dir and to put the images in my 'images' folder
 
 v1.08 (2001-07-28)
@@ -989 +823 @@
 v1.07 (2001-07-22)
 - fixed cosmetic mistake in an error msg in mondo-tarme ('continue'-related)
-- hack-fstab now uses "defaults 0 0" instead of "default 1 3" when making
-  a new entry in /etc/fstab
+- hack-fstab now uses "defaults 0 0" instead of "default 1 3" when making a new entry in /etc/fstab
 - /mondo/restore-me always makes /mnt/RESTORING/tmp; so does mondo-restore.c
 - cosmetic changes to mondo-restore.c's screen output
-- RAID-related enhancements to mondo-restore.c
-  - RAID bkp/restore appears to be stable
-  - it is possible to move from non-RAID to RAID by backing up, wiping,
-    creating /etc/raidtab, modifying /tmp/mountlist.txt and then restoring
-  - mondo-restore.c works well
-  - the only weakness is that the kernel's messages are written to the
-    current console, not to a separate console... HELP? :-)
+- RAID-related enhancements to mondo-restore.c - RAID bkp/restore appears to be stable - it is possible to move from non-RAID to RAID by backing up, wiping, creating /etc/raidtab, modifying /tmp/mountlist.txt and then restoring - mondo-restore.c works well - the only weakness is that the kernel's messages are written to the current console, not to a separate console... HELP? :-)
 - updated README (esp. FAQ) and TODO
 - tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine
-- mondo-1.07.spec and install.sh compile every C program with -lncurses, just
-  in case some programs (besides mondo-restore.c) need the NCURSES library
+- mondo-1.07.spec and install.sh compile every C program with -lncurses, just in case some programs (besides mondo-restore.c) need the NCURSES library
 - mondo-restore.c is now compiled statically
 
@@ -1010 +836 @@
 - install.sh only compiles mondo-restore.c once now
 - if scratchdir or isodir contain more than one path (each), abort
-- mondo-restore.c creates dummy partitions if the user starts the official
-  etc/fstab table at /dev/hda7 or something; so, partitioning should work,
-  even if the mountlist has some gaps
+- mondo-restore.c creates dummy partitions if the user starts the official etc/fstab table at /dev/hda7 or something; so, partitioning should work, even if the mountlist has some gaps
 - for each /dev/md* device in the mountlist, run raidstop before mkraid
 
@@ -1032 +856 @@
 - added 'mondo-restore.c'
     - C program, to replace the old restore scripts
-    - Mindi will incorporate it in the data disks, if it can find Mondo
-        - Mindi will also incorporate the old restore scripts (from Mondo)
-          just in case the new C program doesn't work
+    - Mindi will incorporate it in the data disks, if it can find Mondo - Mindi will also incorporate the old restore scripts (from Mondo) just in case the new C program doesn't work
     - calls the script, 'stablilo-me' to run LILO if desired
-- added 'restore-scripts.tgz', which contains the /mondo scripts that used
-  to live in Mindi; now, Mindi grabs them from here if necessary
+- added 'restore-scripts.tgz', which contains the /mondo scripts that used to live in Mindi; now, Mindi grabs them from here if necessary
 - cleared up Mode-related scripts & the executable to replace them
 - if mkisofs fails, ABORT, don't just warn
-- added '--differential' option, to backup the files changed during the 
-  last N days (N specified by user)
+- added '--differential' option, to backup the files changed during the last N days (N specified by user)
 
 v1.02 (2001-07-07)
 - retract the CD tray after asking user to enter 'continue' (PauseAndAskForCDR)
-- uses C program instead of bash loop for PauseAndAskForCDR; some bash versions
-  go into an infinite loop for no reason; hopefully, outsourcing to C will help
+- uses C program instead of bash loop for PauseAndAskForCDR; some bash versions go into an infinite loop for no reason; hopefully, outsourcing to C will help
 - when slicing, indicate progress ("N slices...")
-- when told to '--burn-cds', Mondo pipes mkisofs's output to cdrecord, instead
-  of saving the ISO file to disk first; this change will save time and space
-  (not in the Star Trek sense, however *smile*)
+- when told to '--burn-cds', Mondo pipes mkisofs's output to cdrecord, instead of saving the ISO file to disk first; this change will save time and space (not in the Star Trek sense, however *smile*)
 - default set size (native) is now 12MB
 - copy /usr/share/mondo to correct directory within CD
@@ -1059 +876 @@
 
 v1.00 (2001-07-04)
-- thanks to recent changes to Mindi, Mondo is now compatible with the 
-  filesystem formats JFS, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 (if your own kernel is)
-- CDs [2-N] do not have boot floppy images on them; only CD#1 does (although
-  CDs [2-N] do have the El Torito boot image, just in case...)
-- modified the --burn-cds switch; now it takes 3rd param, 'cdrw' (optional) to
-  let you wipe and rewrite CDRWs instead of wasting CDRs ;-)
+- thanks to recent changes to Mindi, Mondo is now compatible with the filesystem formats JFS, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS and ext2 (if your own kernel is)
+- CDs [2-N] do not have boot floppy images on them; only CD#1 does (although CDs [2-N] do have the El Torito boot image, just in case...)
+- modified the --burn-cds switch; now it takes 3rd param, 'cdrw' (optional) to let you wipe and rewrite CDRWs instead of wasting CDRs ;-)
 - removed that PID thing; doesn't work; please don't run Mondo twice at once :)
 - removed that "filenames contain '|'" error & associated problems
@@ -1075 +889 @@
 - don't make MD5 checksums if verify_level==0
 - when archiving, make N.tar.bz2 and cklist.txt (tarball+checksums) in parallel
-- at end of mondo-archive, remove scratchdir and TMP completely IF they were
-  created by Mondo (e.g. /home/mondo.scratch or /home/tmp.mondo.12345)
-- fill CD/image up to 1MB less than its max size; was being filled up to about
-  8MB less than its max size, which wasted 8-10MB of storage space per disk
+- at end of mondo-archive, remove scratchdir and TMP completely IF they were created by Mondo (e.g. /home/mondo.scratch or /home/tmp.mondo.12345)
+- fill CD/image up to 1MB less than its max size; was being filled up to about 8MB less than its max size, which wasted 8-10MB of storage space per disk
 
 v0.99 (2001-03-15)
@@ -1104 +916 @@
 
 v0.976 (2000-09-01)
-- technical changes
-  - 12MB ramdisk
-  - repackaged: now, Mondo comes in big tarball/RPM with all overhead-files
-  - each Mondo CD has a 15MB administrative overhead; used to be 50-60MB
-  - definitely 386-compatible now (RH 6.2 binaries)
-  - Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (2.2.16) kernel w/ReiserFS & Supermount
-  - modules.conf / conf.modules support (whichever you've got)
-  - user may include their own copies of modules, if Mondo doesn't come with
-    the requisite modules already
-- extra facilities
-  - ReiserFS support
-  - '--load-modules <foo> <bar> ...' will allow you to force Mondo to load
-    key modules at boot-time, e.g. aic7xxx for SCSI-only users
-- bugfixes
-  - path-exclusion code (mondo-backup)
-  - bogus 'flaws=1' message has been eradicated
-  - CDRW-finding code is now much better at finding the CDRW correctly
-  - dummy burn mode is working again
-  - fixed security hole (thanks, Matija); now, user will be warned if Mondo
-    is configured to execute /tmp/mondo-tarme
-  - changed lots of 'grep " $string "' to 'grep -w "$string"' (thanks, Matija)
+- technical changes - 12MB ramdisk - repackaged: now, Mondo comes in big tarball/RPM with all overhead-files - each Mondo CD has a 15MB administrative overhead; used to be 50-60MB - definitely 386-compatible now (RH 6.2 binaries) - Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (2.2.16) kernel w/ReiserFS & Supermount - modules.conf / conf.modules support (whichever you've got) - user may include their own copies of modules, if Mondo doesn't come with the requisite modules already
+- extra facilities - ReiserFS support - '--load-modules <foo> <bar> ...' will allow you to force Mondo to load key modules at boot-time, e.g. aic7xxx for SCSI-only users
+- bugfixes - path-exclusion code (mondo-backup) - bogus 'flaws=1' message has been eradicated - CDRW-finding code is now much better at finding the CDRW correctly - dummy burn mode is working again - fixed security hole (thanks, Matija); now, user will be warned if Mondo is configured to execute /tmp/mondo-tarme - changed lots of 'grep " $string "' to 'grep -w "$string"' (thanks, Matija)
 
 v0.975 (2000-07-03)
@@ -1140 +934 @@
 
 v0.972 (2000-06-16)
-- auto-archive, mondo-archive and mondo-tarme updated to make them more
-  friendly towards mult-disk sets
+- auto-archive, mondo-archive and mondo-tarme updated to make them more friendly towards mult-disk sets
 - if multiple CDRW drives, user is asked which mondo-archive should use
 
 v0.971 (2000-06-14)
 - auto-archive now passes CD size to mondo-archive
-- mondo-tarme, in conjunction with auto-archive, now handles CDRW boot/burn
-  sharing much better than before
+- mondo-tarme, in conjunction with auto-archive, now handles CDRW boot/burn sharing much better than before
 
 v0.970 (2000-06-10)
@@ -1153 +945 @@
 - lots of silly bugs & overhead problems fixed; 2nd floppy closer to working
 - restore scripts all log to /var/log/mondo-restore.log
-- auto-archive:-
-    - offers Low, Medium or High compression
-    - no longer needs a spare hard drive for scratch space; uses loopfs on
-      existing hard drive (if possible) instead
-    - handles weird (multi-CDROM) PCs more gracefully now
-    - handles PCs with CDRW but without CDROM more gracefully now
-    - deletes each ISO after burning it to a CD-R (if it _is_ burning them)
-    - asks if PC is old & crappy; if it is, IDE optimizations are disabled
-      at backup-time and restore-time
-    - lets user use CDRW for booting _and_ burning, thanks to reroute-softlinks
+- auto-archive:- - offers Low, Medium or High compression - no longer needs a spare hard drive for scratch space; uses loopfs on existing hard drive (if possible) instead - handles weird (multi-CDROM) PCs more gracefully now - handles PCs with CDRW but without CDROM more gracefully now - deletes each ISO after burning it to a CD-R (if it _is_ burning them) - asks if PC is old & crappy; if it is, IDE optimizations are disabled at backup-time and restore-time - lets user use CDRW for booting _and_ burning, thanks to reroute-softlinks
 - selective restore is finally fixed
 - nicer help screens on boot floppy
@@ -1182 +965 @@
 v0.963 (2000-05-31)
 - ISO images are no longer padded
-- all currently-loaded modules are backed up to custom hboot.img & installed
-  at restore-time before CD is accessed
+- all currently-loaded modules are backed up to custom hboot.img & installed at restore-time before CD is accessed
 - '--burn-cd <speed>' switch added
-- '--no-opt' switch added; use it in the call to mondo-archive if you don't
-  want IDE optimization when restoring
+- '--no-opt' switch added; use it in the call to mondo-archive if you don't want IDE optimization when restoring
 - lots of work done on auto-archive
 - mondo-extras-1.5 created; excludes mondo-zfile but includes hlib.tar.bz2
 - boot floppy image now includes kernel w/lots of SCSI stuff
 - slice* deleted (WipeArchives); was 'slices*' (bug!)
-- restore scripts all use 'lastbit-me' to find the 'X' part of '/dev/X' device;
-  this will make it easier to port Mondo to kernel 2.4.x
-- I cannot make SCSI-based CDROMs boot from Mondo CDs properly... but SCSI
-  hard drives and ZIP drives should be handled ok from now on
-- with a little coaxing, Mondo will backup Windows-only PCs (as well as
-  Lin/Win and Linux-only PCs)
+- restore scripts all use 'lastbit-me' to find the 'X' part of '/dev/X' device; this will make it easier to port Mondo to kernel 2.4.x
+- I cannot make SCSI-based CDROMs boot from Mondo CDs properly... but SCSI hard drives and ZIP drives should be handled ok from now on
+- with a little coaxing, Mondo will backup Windows-only PCs (as well as Lin/Win and Linux-only PCs)
 
 v0.962 (2000-05-25)
@@ -1224 +1002 @@
 - mondo-vfat-1.0 package released, to provide kludging for VFAT bootables
 - logfile now saved at /var/log/mondo-archive.log (not `pwd`/mondo-archive.log)
-- pid registered/checked _after_ command line processed... so you can do --help
-  without being shouted at ;)
+- pid registered/checked _after_ command line processed... so you can do --help without being shouted at ;)
 - restore-me broken into 2 scripts: untar-me and biggify-me
 - restore-subroutine-me now renamed untar-subroutine-me
-- bzip2 decompression should work again ;) ... a missing '-Z' was added to
-  the afio call, and the usr/lib/libbz* libraries are now included on CD ISOs
+- bzip2 decompression should work again ;) ... a missing '-Z' was added to the afio call, and the usr/lib/libbz* libraries are now included on CD ISOs
 - fixed hack-lilo to ignore blank lines
-- really ugly boot kludge has been implemented, using embleer files
-  to make newly-formatted VFAT partitions bootable
+- really ugly boot kludge has been implemented, using embleer files to make newly-formatted VFAT partitions bootable