Changeset 672 in MondoRescue for trunk/mindi
- Timestamp:
- Jun 12, 2006, 9:55:14 AM (18 years ago)
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- trunk/mindi
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r649 r672 3 3 MINDI CHANGES 4 4 5 1.0.8-4 (2006-06-10) 6 - nfsmount option added to allow redeployment from another NFS server (Bruno Cornec) 7 5 8 1.0.8-3 (2006-06-07) 6 - exec-shield removed for mindi 7 (Bruno Cornec) 8 - Fix a bug for ia64 build in mindi where locallib was undefined 9 (Bruno Cornec) 10 - Fix a bug for SuSE and Debian where $dfam was used in install.sh 11 (Bruno Cornec) 12 - Make the init script mdadm-aware 13 (Andree Leidenfrost) 9 - exec-shield removed for mindi (Bruno Cornec) 10 - Fix a bug for ia64 build in mindi where locallib was undefined (Bruno Cornec) 11 - Fix a bug for SuSE and Debian where $dfam was used in install.sh (Bruno Cornec) 12 - Make the init script mdadm-aware (Andree Leidenfrost) 14 13 15 14 1.0.8-2 (2006-06-02) 16 - Fix bugs in the swap+LABEL code found on rhel4 17 (Peter Naber/Bruno Cornec) 18 - PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment 19 (Bruno Cornec) 15 - Fix bugs in the swap+LABEL code found on rhel4 (Peter Naber/Bruno Cornec) 16 - PXE mode now supports change of NIC for redeployment (Bruno Cornec) 20 17 21 18 1.0.8-1 (2006-05-25) 22 19 - new build process (Bruno Cornec) 23 - Fix a bug when a disk less than 2.8 MB can be built, to 24 include enough modules to support SCSI cds 25 (Bruno Cornec) 26 - Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused) 27 (Bruno Cornec) 28 - Add support for LABEL on swap partitions 29 (Michel Loiseleur + Julien Pinon) 30 - Attempt to fix bug 6827 (addition of a script for 31 busybox udhcpc to support pxe/dhcp restore) 32 (Bruno Cornec) 20 - Fix a bug when a disk less than 2.8 MB can be built, to include enough modules to support SCSI cds (Bruno Cornec) 21 - Fix a bug in .spec for RPM build (%attr now unused) (Bruno Cornec) 22 - Add support for LABEL on swap partitions (Michel Loiseleur + Julien Pinon) 23 - Attempt to fix bug 6827 (addition of a script for busybox udhcpc to support pxe/dhcp restore) (Bruno Cornec) 33 24 - support of dm and LVM v2 (Andree Leidenfrost) 34 25 - analyze-my-lvm is under $MINDI_LIB (Andree Leidenfrost) 35 - Fix a bug introduced by trying to avoid an error 36 message when modprobe.d doesn't exist 37 (Johannes Franken) 38 - Fix for Bug #6975 (/net is now excluded from kernel search location) 39 (Bruno Cornec) 26 - Fix a bug introduced by trying to avoid an error message when modprobe.d doesn't exist (Johannes Franken) 27 - Fix for Bug #6975 (/net is now excluded from kernel search location) (Bruno Cornec) 40 28 - Allow 5670 MB fllopy disks for lilo as well (Bruno Cornec) 41 29 - Add missing net modules (Klaus Ade Johnstad) … … 43 31 1.0.7 (2006-03-10) 44 32 - Fix issue for 2.6 kernels with VIA chipsets (Andree Leidenfrost) 45 - stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds 46 (Bruno Cornec) 47 - init revamped (removed unnecessary second general module loading phase, 48 start NFS appropriately depending on PXE or simple NFS) 49 (Andree Leidenfrost) 33 - stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds (Bruno Cornec) 34 - init revamped (removed unnecessary second general module loading phase, start NFS appropriately depending on PXE or simple NFS) (Andree Leidenfrost) 50 35 - Changed module 'nfsacl' to 'nfs_acl' (Andree Leidenfrost) 51 36 - Mindi/DiskSize is gone (Bruno Cornec) 52 - useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed 53 (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) 37 - useless cat, sort|uniq commands removed (Bruno Cornec/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) 54 38 - Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost) 55 39 - Bug fix for chown in install.sh (JeffS) 56 40 - CHANGES renamed also in install.sh now (Bruno Cornec) 41 - rpmlint cleanups 42 - Get mindi to look for analyze-my-lvm in it's library directory MINDI_LIB (See also Debian bug #351446.) 43 - mindi only deletes freshly created 1440kb images in case of error (See also Debian Bug #348966.) (Andree Leidenfrost) 44 - try standard grub-install in grub-MR restore script before trying anything fancy (Andree Leidenfrost) 45 - 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) 46 - Fix mindi for 2.6 Failsafe support (Bruno Cornec) 47 - mindi now depends on grep >= 2.5 (for -m option) (Marco Puggelli/Bruno Cornec) 48 - Fix a bug in LVM context for RHEL4 in GetValueFromField (Rémi Bondoin/Bruno Cornec) 49 - New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec) 50 - mindi now supports x86_64 natively (Bruno Cornec) 51 - stop creating further size of floppy disks if the smaller one succeeds (Bruno Cornec) 57 52 58 53 1.06 (2005-12-23) 59 54 - mindi manpage added (Andree Leidenfrost) 60 55 - clean up remaining mount points, mindi.err at the end (Wolfgang Rosenauer) 61 - fix bugs for SuSE distro around tar, tr and find arguments order 62 (Wolfgang Rosenauer) 56 - fix bugs for SuSE distro around tar, tr and find arguments order (Wolfgang Rosenauer) 63 57 - new busybox.net version used for better PXE support (Bruno Cornec) 64 58 - USB keyboard support (Bruno Cornec) 65 59 - -p should now work with ISO/PXE/NFS modes (Bruno Cornec) 66 - relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) 67 (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost) 68 - manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball) 69 (Bruno Cornec) 70 - install script rewritten and used for RPM build, with new layout 71 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec) 60 - relocate what was under /usr/share to /usr/lib (FHS compliance) (Bruno Cornec/Andree Leidenfrost) 61 - manage non ambiguous delivery under /usr (packages) or /usr/local (tar ball) (Bruno Cornec) 62 - install script rewritten and used for RPM build, with new layout (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec) 72 63 - use parted2fdisk everywhere (Bruno Cornec) 73 - use MONDO_LIB exported by mondoarchive instead of MONDO_HOME guessed 74 (Bruno Cornec) 75 - RPM build for fedora core 4, sles9, redhat 7.3, rhel 3/4, mandriva 2006.0, 76 mandrake 10.2/10.1 (Bruno Cornec/Gary Granger) 64 - use MONDO_LIB exported by mondoarchive instead of MONDO_HOME guessed (Bruno Cornec) 65 - 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) 77 66 - VERSION/RELEASE Tag added (Bruno Cornec) 78 67 - VMPlayer support 79 - Code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements 80 (Wolfgang Rosenauer/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec 81 - New switches for PXE mode (ping & ipconf, Cf README.pxe) 82 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec) 68 - Code cleanup, small fixes, PXE/NFS code improvements (Wolfgang Rosenauer/Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec 69 - New switches for PXE mode (ping & ipconf, Cf README.pxe) (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni/Bruno Cornec) 83 70 - mindi-kernel added to SVN (Bruno Cornec) 84 71 85 72 1.05 (2005-11-19) 86 - Bug fix for ldd output incorrectly handled, leading to "grep not found" error 87 (Andree Leidenfrost) 88 - NFS now works in interactive mode, and nolock problems are solve 89 (Andree Leidenfrost) 90 - IA-64 support is now working for rhel 3 91 (Bruno Cornec) 92 - add MINDI_CONF to the mindi LOGFILE 93 (Philippe De Muyter) 94 - Speed up fdisk'ing dev/ida raid devices 95 (Philippe De Muyter) 73 - Bug fix for ldd output incorrectly handled, leading to "grep not found" error (Andree Leidenfrost) 74 - NFS now works in interactive mode, and nolock problems are solve (Andree Leidenfrost) 75 - IA-64 support is now working for rhel 3 (Bruno Cornec) 76 - add MINDI_CONF to the mindi LOGFILE (Philippe De Muyter) 77 - Speed up fdisk'ing dev/ida raid devices (Philippe De Muyter) 96 78 97 79 1.04 (2005-05-03) 98 80 - support exec-shield 99 - added 'ide-generic' module to IDE modules in mindi to ensure that kernels 100 with fully modularised IDE sub-system boot 101 - rewrote script 'wait-for-petris' to ensure that petris actually starts and 102 can be restarted reliably 103 - fixed syntax error in mindi where a wrong delimiter is used in and sed call 104 when processing file '/etc/issue.net' 105 - removed '#!/bin/bash' from file 'rootfs/etc/bashrc' (bashrc get sourced, not 106 executed) 81 - added 'ide-generic' module to IDE modules in mindi to ensure that kernels with fully modularised IDE sub-system boot 82 - rewrote script 'wait-for-petris' to ensure that petris actually starts and can be restarted reliably 83 - fixed syntax error in mindi where a wrong delimiter is used in and sed call when processing file '/etc/issue.net' 84 - removed '#!/bin/bash' from file 'rootfs/etc/bashrc' (bashrc get sourced, not executed) 107 85 - removed executable flag from: 108 109 86 - 'rootfs/etc/ld.so.cache' 87 - 'rootfs/root/.profile' 110 88 111 89 1.03 (2004-09-29) … … 115 93 - better kernel-level logging 116 94 - added ACL, xattr binaries to deplist.txt 117 - fixed obscure bug which occasionally stopped mindi from correctly finding 118 and documenting all LVM2 LVM-on-RAID volumes 119 95 - fixed obscure bug which occasionally stopped mindi from correctly finding and documenting all LVM2 LVM-on-RAID volumes 120 96 1.01 (2004-06-21) 121 97 - added ide_tape and other modules to mindi's config detection … … 179 155 - better ISO support 180 156 - tweaked mindi to use 10-15% fewer floppies 181 - added RUN_AFTER_INITIAL_BOOT_PHASE var at start of Mindi, which 182 user may use to force Mindi to run command before bootstrapping 183 to aux data disks or CD - e.g. 'echo engage > /proc/scsi/something' 184 - allow for Debian & other Stiefkinder that use 'none', not 'swap' 185 as the mountpoint of the swap partition 157 - 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' 158 - allow for Debian & other Stiefkinder that use 'none', not 'swap' as the mountpoint of the swap partition 186 159 - removed afio dependency 187 - added RUN_AFTER_BOOT_PHASE_COMPLETE to let user specify a command 188 to be run by Mindi after it boots but before it runs mondorestore 160 - 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 189 161 - re-worked install.sh and tarball not to use tgz's 190 162 - cleared up the boot msg … … 206 178 - clean up some calls to grep, esp. partition_mountpt=... 207 179 - corrected some bashisms, to suit Debian ped- er, users 208 - made first line refer to bash, not sh, to make sure 209 the Debian people know Mindi requires bash, not hs 180 - made first line refer to bash, not sh, to make sure the Debian people know Mindi requires bash, not hs 210 181 - changed grep -v "#" and grep -vx "#.*" to grep -vx " *#.*" 211 - disabled code which would make Mindi use sfdisk instead of fdisk 212 if it looked as if Debian's fdisk would misbehave 182 - disabled code which would make Mindi use sfdisk instead of fdisk if it looked as if Debian's fdisk would misbehave 213 183 214 184 v0.91 (2003-04-04) … … 221 191 - try harder to boot from CD, even if tape fails 222 192 - added ADDITIONAL_BOOT_PARAMS to be sent to kernel 223 - better resolution of relative softlinks, leading to fewer 224 duplicates on data disks and therefore fewer data disks 225 - detect Debian+devfs; use sfdisk instead of fdisk in that 226 eventuality, to work around yet another of Debian's warts 193 - better resolution of relative softlinks, leading to fewer duplicates on data disks and therefore fewer data disks 194 - detect Debian+devfs; use sfdisk instead of fdisk in that eventuality, to work around yet another of Debian's warts 227 195 - removed /lib/libuuid.* from rootfs.tgz 228 196 - fixed vi 229 - mindi now uses gawk --traditional (making gawk behave in a functionally 230 identical way to awk) - PASS; great, so now Debian needs to fix its awk :) 197 - 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 :) 231 198 - removed / from list of dirs accessed when trying to resolve deplist entry 232 199 - spinner bugfix; handle odd LABELs properly (Tom Mortell) … … 248 215 249 216 v0.71 (2002-11-17) 250 - if your kernel's builddate doesn't match any of the kernels in 251 your /boot directory then fudge the issue & find the closest 252 match (*grumble* Debian) 217 - 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) 253 218 - scan tape & CD at start, to force inclusion of modules on boot device 254 219 - double EXTRA_SPACE if >7 disks … … 284 249 - added RPC support to uClibc 285 250 - cleaned up creation of Mondo-Mindi configuration file 286 - fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling 287 multiple, same-version kernels gracefully 251 - fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling multiple, same-version kernels gracefully 288 252 - cleaned up deplist.txt 289 253 - receive 'DIFFERENTIAL' variable from Mondo … … 301 265 - .spec file clean-up; automation; config file (Carl Wilhem Soderstrom) 302 266 303 v0.64-1 (2002-07-1 4)267 v0.64-1 (2002-07-13) 304 268 - fixed RH7.3 readonly bug 305 269 - improved nfs config file creation … … 348 312 349 313 v0.62 (2002-04-08) 350 - keep certain /dev directories compressed until boot-time, to allow 351 Mindi to support larger kernels 314 - keep certain /dev directories compressed until boot-time, to allow Mindi to support larger kernels 352 315 - cleaned up logging a lot 353 316 - better detection of the kernel currently in use … … 370 333 371 334 v0.58-r6 (2002-03-03) 372 - reassemble large data/library files who have older 'mv' code which doesn't 373 like to overwrite symlinks - affects older RH+Slack systems (Andrew Bulhak) 335 - reassemble large data/library files who have older 'mv' code which doesn't like to overwrite symlinks - affects older RH+Slack systems (Andrew Bulhak) 374 336 - call /usr/bin/logger, not 'logger', in LogIt() 375 337 - run chmod 755 `which start-nfs` before running start-nfs 376 377 338 378 339 v0.58-r5 (2002-02-24) … … 388 349 v0.58-r4 (2002-02-18) 389 350 - quash error if /opt not found 390 - use /tmp/groovy-stuff instead of /mnt/groovy-stuff for 391 handling data disks and their contents, for tape users 351 - use /tmp/groovy-stuff instead of /mnt/groovy-stuff for handling data disks and their contents, for tape users 392 352 393 353 v0.58-r3 (2002-02-17) … … 431 391 - moved many global vars to start of script 432 392 - better at finding US kbd maps 433 - migrating to a single configuration file, /tmp/mondo-restore.cfg, for 434 Mondo users; file is not in use yet but is there for future expansion 393 - 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 435 394 436 395 v0.55 (2002-01-28) 437 - MINDI_HOME and MONDO_HOME defined at start of each source file, making 438 it easier to relocate Mindi and Mondo if desired 396 - MINDI_HOME and MONDO_HOME defined at start of each source file, making it easier to relocate Mindi and Mondo if desired 439 397 - tries to mount /dev/hd[a-h] at boot-time, looking for CD-ROM; was hd[a-d] 440 398 - re-enabled the msg asking user to upgrade LILO if v21.6 441 - Lin/Win users are much, _much_ less likely to run out of disk space now 442 when restoring from backups (Carlos Molina) 399 - Lin/Win users are much, _much_ less likely to run out of disk space now when restoring from backups (Carlos Molina) 443 400 - patch from Andrej Borsenkow to help w/Mandrake 8.1 444 401 - disabled ramdisk free space checker (some distros don't like it) … … 464 421 - improved TryToFindKernelPath() function 465 422 - don't offer NFS users Nuke Mode 466 - finds and uses lilo.real if user is using Debian, a distro which 467 installs a shell script where the lilo executable should go 423 - finds and uses lilo.real if user is using Debian, a distro which installs a shell script where the lilo executable should go 468 424 - improved support for XFS users who opt to use failsafe kernel 469 425 - uses user's lsmod, depmod, insmod, etc. … … 475 431 v0.52-2 (2002-01-10) 476 432 - fixed a bug in the handling of non-English keyboard maps 477 - force failsafe kernel to provide reiserfs.o, xfs.o, jfs.o, ext2.o, 478 ext3.o and loop.o at boot-time, just in case 433 - force failsafe kernel to provide reiserfs.o, xfs.o, jfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o and loop.o at boot-time, just in case 479 434 - added /dev/sr[0-3] devices 480 435 - copy LAST_FILELIST_NUMBER to /tmp, for compatibility with Mondo v1.3x 481 436 - incorporates NFS-related settings, if supplied by Mondo v1.3x 482 - replace busybox's mount with standard libc5 mount ater restoring 483 tools from floppies: NFS mounting requires full mount 437 - replace busybox's mount with standard libc5 mount ater restoring tools from floppies: NFS mounting requires full mount 484 438 - always make mindi.iso 485 439 … … 493 447 - /sbin and /usr/sbin added temporarily to PATH when Mindi runs 494 448 - if Mondo asks then force LILO to run in backward-compatible mode 495 - if Mondo's tmpdir has post-nuke.tgz in it then extract it and 496 incorporate its files in the data disks 449 - if Mondo's tmpdir has post-nuke.tgz in it then extract it and incorporate its files in the data disks 497 450 - losetup /dev/loop0 -d before calling LILO (Norm Crowfoot) 498 - if keyboard mapping dir (usu. /lib/kbd or /usr/lib/kbd) cannot be 499 found then don't abort; simply tell the user the default keyboard 500 mapping will be used 451 - 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 501 452 - added /dev/hd[a,b,c,d][17-24] to the rootfs tarball 502 - won't use LILO's optimizations when creating boot floppy; however, 503 optimizations are used on CD unless --broken-bios in call to Mondo 453 - won't use LILO's optimizations when creating boot floppy; however, optimizations are used on CD unless --broken-bios in call to Mondo 504 454 - won't write data disks to start of tape; lets Mondo do that 505 - tweaked how Mindi moves all.tar.gz around, to make it more 506 Mondo-friendly 455 - tweaked how Mindi moves all.tar.gz around, to make it more Mondo-friendly 507 456 - tweaked Mindi's disk-splitter 508 457 - user must unmount /dev/loop0 before calling Mindi: LILO insists... 509 458 - added NFS-related entries to deplist.txt 510 - if not called by Mondo then don't let user choose Interactive/Nuke/ 511 whatever; just offer Expert 459 - if not called by Mondo then don't let user choose Interactive/Nuke/ whatever; just offer Expert 512 460 513 461 v0.51-1 (2001-12-25) 514 - removed libm.* from rootfs.tgz 515 - replaced sh with busybox's ash 516 - upgraded busybox to 0.60-2; pared it down, too 517 - include tape-related modules on boot disk, if backing up to tape 518 - creates a tape-friendly tarball containing tools+modules 519 - reassembly of tools+libraries is more reliable now 520 - streamlined deplist.txt 521 - give user their localized keyboard layout at boot-time 522 - fix some cosmetic bugs 523 524 v0.50-4 (2011-12-19) 525 - log Mindi's version# in the event of a fatal error 526 - make Mindi's boot-time output more esthetically pleasing 527 - if filesystem is type 'image', according to Mondo, then in filelist 528 its partition type will be listed as the hexadecimal string (e.g. 529 'b', '83', etc.) and the partition mountpoint will be 'image' 462 - removed libm.* from rootfs.tgz 463 - replaced sh with busybox's ash 464 - upgraded busybox to 0.60-2; pared it down, too 465 - include tape-related modules on boot disk, if backing up to tape 466 - creates a tape-friendly tarball containing tools+modules 467 - reassembly of tools+libraries is more reliable now 468 - streamlined deplist.txt 469 - give user their localized keyboard layout at boot-time 470 - fix some cosmetic bugs 471 472 v0.50-4 (2001-12-19) 473 - log Mindi's version# in the event of a fatal error 474 - make Mindi's boot-time output more esthetically pleasing 475 - 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' 530 476 531 477 v0.50-2 (2001-12-15) 532 - support for newer features in Mondo v1.3x 533 534 v0.50-1 535 - correctly lists RAID constituent partitions in mountlist 536 - breaks compatibility with Mondo v1.2x 537 - if user's fstab has weird line(s) then ignore; don't abort 538 - working on CDROM_MODS, trying to make it work on Stewart Charnell's 539 hardware setup 540 - cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-init a bit 541 542 v0.48-2 543 - when insmod'g modules from ramdisk's root dir, use 'ls /*.o*' 544 (was 'ls /*.*') to find them 545 - if RAID controller(s) are detected then pause for 10s to let them 546 intialize by themselves (some 3ware RAID controllers require this) 547 - cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-ini; the former now controls 548 initialization of hardware, drivers, tools, etc. and the latter 549 runs mondo-restore if it exists 550 - better detection of and compatibility with SCSI CD-ROM drives 551 - chopsize is now 64KB; was 128KB 552 - cleaned up mindi's logging 553 554 v0.48-1 555 - better logging of find-and-mount-cdrom's progress (to 556 /tmp/mondo-restore.log) 557 - somehow, lilo was re-enabled in deplist.txt; DISABLED (again *g*) 558 - added 'linear' to the list of modules Mindi always backs up 559 - if called by Mondo then pass the name & device of the user's boot 560 loader to the restore phase, by copying BOOTLOADER.* to the ramdisk 561 - if loading from floppies then try to mount CD-ROM a 2nd time after 562 extracting files from data floppies, just in case user is a CD user 563 who couldn't get their CD-ROM drive to work initially 564 - added fix to make sure /root/images/mindi is created (Charlie Root) 565 - aware of 'iso' boot mode, for future expansion 566 567 v0.47 568 - added /dev/cdrom/cdrom[1-4] to the devices automatically excluded 569 from mountlist.txt 570 - added '-f-' to the end of most tar commands, to see if it fixes a 571 bug in some obscure Debian distros 572 - added network-related dependencies to deplist.txt 573 - if called by Mondo then don't write floppy images to disks; let 574 Mondo do that: less irritating for user 575 - if called by Mondo then do some clever tricks to add mondo-restore 576 and its dependencies (mondo-restore is now a dynamic executable) 577 - finally gotten klogd to squelch echoing of kernel msgs to console 578 579 v0.46 580 - finally fixed that 'lib/modules/2.4.12-xfs not found' bug! :-D 581 - cosmetic changes and minor bugfixes 582 - excluded lilo.conf and lilo from deplist.txt; use user's copy instead 583 - if your fstab mentions a RAID partition but your raidtab doesn't then 584 Mindi will terminate in a sane manner with a sane error message 585 - fixed a bug in bug-me (heh, how ironic) 586 - include and run (sys)klogd to try to pipe kernel msgs to logfile 587 - call hdparm to speed up access to CD-ROM drive 588 589 v0.45 590 - disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt 591 - include /etc/fstab in logfile 592 - removed lzop.* from aux-tools; should come from user's distro anyway 593 - tweaked data disk size and data disk formatting command 594 - make ISO bootable image (as well as floppies) when backing up to tape 595 - copy boot images (floppy + CD) from temp dir to /root/images/mindi 596 after making them, just in case the user wants them later 597 - added md5sum to deplist.txt 598 - added pico->vi softlink to ramdisk 599 - in the ramdisk's /etc/bashrc, added /usr/local/bin and 600 /usr/local/sbin to the PATH= command 601 - call insert-all-modules as background task; pause 3 seconds after 602 calling it, before proceeding <--- /sbin/init 603 - call to devfs has been moved to before call to post-init 604 - added 'md5sum -> busybox' softlink 605 - Mindi now uses busybox's printf, md5sum, mount, umount, vi 606 ...NB: I said, 'vi' :-) Now you have an editor again! :-) 607 - added lilo.real to deplist.txt, to allow for Debian's evil new distro 608 - added lzop to deplist.txt 609 - no longer including lzop in Mindi's tarball / RPM 610 - improved Mindi's error-reporting a little bit 611 - changed deplist.txt's /etc/* to just * 612 - restructured the calls in /sbin/post-init that reinitialize the LVM 613 and RAID modules 614 - if mkfs.ext2 is not in PATH then abort 615 - Mindi uses a 'filename cache' to speed itself up at run-time 616 (Jean-David Marrow) 617 - Red Hat 7.2 uses a weird /etc/issue.net; I've worked around it... 618 - tested with Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2 619 620 v0.44 621 - at boot-time, activate LV's if they exist 622 - restructured deplist.txt a bit (cosmetic change) 623 - re-enabled fsck.* in deplist.txt 624 - analyze-my-lvm fails gracefully if you're not using LVM but inserted 625 the module anyway 626 627 v0.43 628 - made Mindi work with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel 629 - if mkisofs is not found, say so; don't just say, 'an error occurred 630 while I was trying to make an ISO image' 631 - when formatting and writing floppies, if /dev/fd0's size is 632 indeterminable then I'll use /dev/fd0H1440 instead 633 - make sure xfs.o, jfs.o, reiserfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o modules are 634 backed up (if they exist) to boot disks 635 - fixed a silly bug that stopped Mindi from handling its own modules 636 properly; only affects newbie users with broken kernels (i.e. the 637 very people that Mindi's failsafe kernel was meant to help!) 638 - added lzop (Marcus Oberhumer's file compressor) to aux-tools.tgz 639 - added Bruno Cornec's "--cd-recovery" patch; if user uses the switch 640 (i.e. '--cd-recovery yes') then the CD will boot to a screen that 641 pauses until the user types RESTORE; then, it will enter Nuke Mode 642 - added Stephan Zegherd's "superformat" patch 643 - failsafe kernel is now 2.4.12 with XFS, JFS and lots of SCSI modules; 644 the addition of XFS and extensive SCSI support will increase the 645 size of Mindi's RPM / tarball significantly but I think it's worth it 646 - at boot-time, find out whether there are any RAID partitions; and if 647 there are, whether they are 'started' yet; if not, run raidstart to 648 start them at boot-time, before user can try to mount anything 649 - Mindi's failsafe kernel & modules are handled more elegantly now; 650 if you have raid1.o, scsi.o, etc. loaded at backup-time then Mindi 651 finds its corresponding modules in its tarball of failsafe modules 652 and stores them so that at boot-time you can do SCSI, RAID, etc. 653 - removed gawk, printf from deplist.txt 654 655 v0.42 656 - make sure lvm-mod, raid0, raid1 and raid5 modules are backed up 657 - added 'you need a ramdisk' to FAQ 658 - changed the slice size from 20KB to 64KB; speeds up Mindi by 25% 659 and doesn't have any negative side-effects (...that I can see) 660 - when searching for your current kernel version, do not examine 661 a file if it does not exist (it sounds obvious, I know...) 662 - when asking user to send me a copy of their log file, point out 663 that it may contain info which they do not want me to see but that 664 they are SOL unless I can actually see their log file 665 - fixed a silly bug that would crop up when a Linux-Mandrake 8.1 user 666 would use a devfs-enabled kernel and RAID partitions at the same time 667 - plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros 668 - data floppies are now 1.44MB each; boot floppy is still 1.72MB 669 - if binutils or libbinutils is not installed, abort 670 - fixed a bug which meant that some big files overwrote each other 671 at backup-time and caused library-related problems are boot-time 672 - enabled comments ('#') in deplist.txt 673 - disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt; user may re-enable the line if 674 s/he wants those tools available at boot-time 675 - tested successfully with the following distros 676 - Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and its 2.4.8, devfs-enabled stock kernel 677 - Red Hat 7.1 and its 2.4.2 stock kernel 678 - better at guessing the size of swap partition 679 - drop minix tools from deplist; user can restore them if s/he wants 680 to use the minix filesystem 681 - don't backup _all_ cdrom modules (if backing up 'cdrom.o'); be 682 selective! ...minor bug in ListKerneModulePaths has been fixed 683 - if the user has two glibc libraries - one in /lib and one in 684 /lib/i686 - then Mindi will re-jig the softlinks so that only the 685 version in /lib is backed up, to save space on the data disks 686 - major rewrite of the code that copies the tools and libraries from 687 the data disks; prettier, faster and more stable (and did I mention 688 how kind it is to your hard-working hands?) 689 - better handling of crazy libraries and softlinks thereto 690 - new boot-time script, 'bug-me', copies user's logs to a floppy and 691 tells him/her to e-mail them to me if mondo-restore aborts 692 - ignore kernels named vmlinux (note the 'X'); traditionally, kernels 693 are named vmlinuz (note the 'Z') or something similar 694 - no longer backup all modules to CD/tape; just backup the ones loaded 695 at backup-time; this saves boot-time ramdisk space 696 - removed all references to LOOPDEVICE 697 - LVM is supported (experimental; watch this space...) 698 - included a tarball of 'sane' /dev/loop* nodes which will be extracted 699 and added to the boot disk; this helps maintain Mindi's backward- 700 compatibility with non-devfs kernels and distros 701 - when copying modules to boot or data disks, uncompress them first 702 if they are gzipped (some distros come with compressed modules) 703 - no longer copies all loaded modules to the 2.88 MB El Torito bootable 704 floppy image; instead, it copies FLOPPY_MODS to the 1.72 MB image, 705 CDROM_MODS to the 2.88 MB image, and _all_ modules that were loaded 706 at backup-time to the data disks 707 - supports tape streamers, in conjunction with Mondo 708 - uses busybox's sync again; let's see if that breaks anything... 709 - if Mondo is backing up to tape streamer then write the tape's size to 710 /tmp/TAPESIZE and the drive's device to /tmp/TAPEDEV-LIVES-HERE on 711 the ramdisk 712 - floppy disk modules (ide-floppy.o and floppy.o) now are copied 713 to the ramdisk, whether the user's kernel or the failsafe kernel 714 is being used 715 716 v0.41 717 - excluded *.old from the 'boot.b' list when searching for boot.b 718 - updated Mindi's own failsafe kernel+modules to v2.4.10 719 - added umount to deplist again 720 - improved Mindi's support of modular kernels (esp. modular CD-ROM 721 drive and floppy disk drives) 722 - don't accuse Linux 2.4.10 users of having a 'buggy kernel' 723 - restored the libc5 versions of sync and umount (dropped from 724 deplist but also from busybox) 725 - fixed a lot of silly bugs related to incorporating Busybox in Mindi 726 - experimental LVM support 727 - added 'analyze-my-lvm' script to the tarball; Mindi uses it now 728 - able to recognize & record LVM mounts, adding them to the mountlist 729 - added the LVM executables (listed in the lvm-0.xx-i386.rpm) to 730 deplist.txt; they won't be added unless you have them and you won't 478 - support for newer features in Mondo v1.3x 479 480 v0.50-1 (2001-12-14) 481 - correctly lists RAID constituent partitions in mountlist 482 - breaks compatibility with Mondo v1.2x 483 - if user's fstab has weird line(s) then ignore; don't abort 484 - working on CDROM_MODS, trying to make it work on Stewart Charnell's hardware setup 485 - cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-init a bit 486 487 v0.48-2 (2001-12-09) 488 - when insmod'g modules from ramdisk's root dir, use 'ls /*.o*' (was 'ls /*.*') to find them 489 - if RAID controller(s) are detected then pause for 10s to let them intialize by themselves (some 3ware RAID controllers require this) 490 - 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 491 - better detection of and compatibility with SCSI CD-ROM drives 492 - chopsize is now 64KB; was 128KB 493 - cleaned up mindi's logging 494 495 v0.48-1 (2001-12-08) 496 - better logging of find-and-mount-cdrom's progress (to /tmp/mondo-restore.log) 497 - somehow, lilo was re-enabled in deplist.txt; DISABLED (again *g*) 498 - added 'linear' to the list of modules Mindi always backs up 499 - 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 500 - 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 501 - added fix to make sure /root/images/mindi is created (Charlie Root) 502 - aware of 'iso' boot mode, for future expansion 503 504 v0.47 (2001-12-04) 505 - added /dev/cdrom/cdrom[1-4] to the devices automatically excluded from mountlist.txt 506 - added '-f-' to the end of most tar commands, to see if it fixes a bug in some obscure Debian distros 507 - added network-related dependencies to deplist.txt 508 - if called by Mondo then don't write floppy images to disks; let Mondo do that: less irritating for user 509 - if called by Mondo then do some clever tricks to add mondo-restore and its dependencies (mondo-restore is now a dynamic executable) 510 - finally gotten klogd to squelch echoing of kernel msgs to console 511 512 v0.46 (2001-11-29) 513 - finally fixed that 'lib/modules/2.4.12-xfs not found' bug! :-D 514 - cosmetic changes and minor bugfixes 515 - excluded lilo.conf and lilo from deplist.txt; use user's copy instead 516 - 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 517 - fixed a bug in bug-me (heh, how ironic) 518 - include and run (sys)klogd to try to pipe kernel msgs to logfile 519 - call hdparm to speed up access to CD-ROM drive 520 521 v0.45 (2001-11-15) 522 - disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt 523 - include /etc/fstab in logfile 524 - removed lzop.* from aux-tools; should come from user's distro anyway 525 - tweaked data disk size and data disk formatting command 526 - make ISO bootable image (as well as floppies) when backing up to tape 527 - copy boot images (floppy + CD) from temp dir to /root/images/mindi after making them, just in case the user wants them later 528 - added md5sum to deplist.txt 529 - added pico->vi softlink to ramdisk 530 - in the ramdisk's /etc/bashrc, added /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin to the PATH= command 531 - call insert-all-modules as background task; pause 3 seconds after calling it, before proceeding <--- /sbin/init 532 - call to devfs has been moved to before call to post-init 533 - added 'md5sum -> busybox' softlink 534 - Mindi now uses busybox's printf, md5sum, mount, umount, vi ...NB: I said, 'vi' :-) Now you have an editor again! :-) 535 - added lilo.real to deplist.txt, to allow for Debian's evil new distro 536 - added lzop to deplist.txt 537 - no longer including lzop in Mindi's tarball / RPM 538 - improved Mindi's error-reporting a little bit 539 - changed deplist.txt's /etc/* to just * 540 - restructured the calls in /sbin/post-init that reinitialize the LVM and RAID modules 541 - if mkfs.ext2 is not in PATH then abort 542 - Mindi uses a 'filename cache' to speed itself up at run-time (Jean-David Marrow) 543 - Red Hat 7.2 uses a weird /etc/issue.net; I've worked around it... 544 - tested with Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.2 545 546 v0.44 (2001-10-28) 547 - at boot-time, activate LV's if they exist 548 - restructured deplist.txt a bit (cosmetic change) 549 - re-enabled fsck.* in deplist.txt 550 - analyze-my-lvm fails gracefully if you're not using LVM but inserted the module anyway 551 552 v0.43 (2001-10-21) 553 - made Mindi work with Red Hat 6.2 and 2.2.19 kernel 554 - if mkisofs is not found, say so; don't just say, 'an error occurred while I was trying to make an ISO image' 555 - when formatting and writing floppies, if /dev/fd0's size is indeterminable then I'll use /dev/fd0H1440 instead 556 - make sure xfs.o, jfs.o, reiserfs.o, ext2.o, ext3.o modules are backed up (if they exist) to boot disks 557 - 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!) 558 - added lzop (Marcus Oberhumer's file compressor) to aux-tools.tgz 559 - 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 560 - added Stephan Zegherd's "superformat" patch 561 - 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 562 - 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 563 - 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. 564 - removed gawk, printf from deplist.txt 565 566 v0.42 (2001-10-10) 567 - make sure lvm-mod, raid0, raid1 and raid5 modules are backed up 568 - added 'you need a ramdisk' to FAQ 569 - 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) 570 - when searching for your current kernel version, do not examine a file if it does not exist (it sounds obvious, I know...) 571 - 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 572 - 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 573 - plays nicely with devfs-enabled kernels and distros 574 - data floppies are now 1.44MB each; boot floppy is still 1.72MB 575 - if binutils or libbinutils is not installed, abort 576 - fixed a bug which meant that some big files overwrote each other at backup-time and caused library-related problems are boot-time 577 - enabled comments ('#') in deplist.txt 578 - disabled fsck.* in deplist.txt; user may re-enable the line if s/he wants those tools available at boot-time 579 - 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 580 - better at guessing the size of swap partition 581 - drop minix tools from deplist; user can restore them if s/he wants to use the minix filesystem 582 - don't backup _all_ cdrom modules (if backing up 'cdrom.o'); be selective! ...minor bug in ListKerneModulePaths has been fixed 583 - 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 584 - 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?) 585 - better handling of crazy libraries and softlinks thereto 586 - 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 587 - ignore kernels named vmlinux (note the 'X'); traditionally, kernels are named vmlinuz (note the 'Z') or something similar 588 - no longer backup all modules to CD/tape; just backup the ones loaded at backup-time; this saves boot-time ramdisk space 589 - removed all references to LOOPDEVICE 590 - LVM is supported (experimental; watch this space...) 591 - 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 592 - when copying modules to boot or data disks, uncompress them first if they are gzipped (some distros come with compressed modules) 593 - 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 594 - uses busybox's sync again; let's see if that breaks anything... 595 - 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 596 - 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 597 598 v0.41 (2001-09-28) 599 - excluded *.old from the 'boot.b' list when searching for boot.b 600 - updated Mindi's own failsafe kernel+modules to v2.4.10 601 - added umount to deplist again 602 - improved Mindi's support of modular kernels (esp. modular CD-ROM drive and floppy disk drives) 603 - don't accuse Linux 2.4.10 users of having a 'buggy kernel' 604 - restored the libc5 versions of sync and umount (dropped from deplist but also from busybox) 605 - fixed a lot of silly bugs related to incorporating Busybox in Mindi 606 - experimental LVM support 607 - added 'analyze-my-lvm' script to the tarball; Mindi uses it now 608 - able to recognize & record LVM mounts, adding them to the mountlist 609 - 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 731 610 have them unless you're using LVM, so this is not 'bloat' IMO :) 732 - added date and sync to deplist again 733 - when working on LVM stuff, use 'echo y | pvcreate -ff' (was '..-f') 734 - amended format-...-kludge to allow for mountlists with >1 735 spaces between cols 736 checked the fsck.reiserfs is in deplist.txt (yes it is) 737 - incorporated busybox 0.60-1; now, Mindi is faster at run-time and 738 smaller at boot-time; you can fit a typical system onto 3 floppies; 739 also, a kernel up to 1MB in size (approx.) can now be accommodated 740 - supports kernels that have MODULAR support for CD-ROM's or floppies 741 - Mindi copies only the loaded modules to the data disks but it copies 742 _all_ modules to the CD, just in case 743 - thanks to busybox your floppy-based Mindi boot disk set should now be 744 able to accommodate a kernel of up to 1MB in size 745 - boot into Expert Mode unless boot disk was generated by Mondo 746 - exclude all softlinks from list of 'eligible' kernels 747 - exclude kernels with 'vmlinux' in their names 748 - removed A LOT of files from deplist.txt's dependency list; they are 749 listed in deplist.removed, in case you want to put them back :-) 750 - excludes libX11, libXext, libXi, libgtk, libgdk ALWAYS, whether you 751 add them to deplist.txt or not; [cancel this by editing line 485] 752 - rewrote AddFileToDir() to make it more efficient (but slower...) 753 - strip chaff from binaries; strip comments from bash scripts; strip 754 comments from /etc/termcap 755 756 v0.40 757 - if you use a softlink to your CD dev, e.g. /dev/cdrecorder->scd0, 758 then Mindi should handle it properly now (i.e. not bomb out) 759 - if you have a large kernel & lots of modules loaded, Mindi will only 760 copy as many modules to the ramdisk as will _fit_ on a ramdisk that 761 will have to go alongside your kernel on a 2.88MB floppy disk 762 - if your kernel does not support loopfs, Mindi will say so & abort 763 - turned some warnings into fatal errors, to help the user to figure 764 out exactly why Mindi won't work on their kernel 765 - changed mke2fs -N24 to -N32, to see if it helps braindead distros 766 - Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel 767 - gone back to the old 'insert-my-modules' for now; it's more reliable 768 - working on the 'insert-all-my-modules' script, to make it compatible 769 with a wider range of insane distros and kernels 770 - dropped the '-c' option from LILO call 771 - removed cdrecord, mkisofs, vi, route and diff from deplist.txt 772 - slowed down the 'split data between floppies' routine; made it 773 try harder to squeeze more data onto each floppy 774 - excluding nvidia modules from the "insert-all-my-modules" script 775 because it sometimes causes freeze-ups 776 - added code to copy your fstab, lilo.conf, etc. to a tarball which, in 777 the event of an error, Mindi will ask the user to e-mail me 778 779 v0.39 780 - plays nicely with devfs, so long as your old /dev/hdX, /dev/sdX 781 softlinks are still there :-) 782 - if your swap partition isn't mounted, Mindi will decide that it is 783 125MB; it used to abort but now it just warns & makes a good guess 784 - testing the failsafe kernel & associated scripts 785 - only use lilo's "-c" option if NOT a 2.88MB floppy disk image 786 - copes better with .o, .gz, etc. module suffixes 787 - better 'loaded modules / not loaded modules' feedback at boot-time 788 - semi-forces isofs and ide-cd (not isofs.o and ide-cd.o); the former 789 will be more compatible with stock kernels - e.g. Red Hat, Mandrake; 790 also added vfat, fat & a few other modules to the list of 'foced'. 791 - removed the '-c' switch from the call to LILO (some BIOSes don't 792 like it very much) 793 - removed chaff from ramdisk's /etc/login.defs, saving approx 7K 794 - format the boot disks with -N 24 (was -N 64) 795 - do not insist on CD #1 (at boot-time) if there is no 'CD #' marker 796 - amend format-and-kludge-vfat; now, it will not abort if it cannot 797 find its entry in mountlist; it doesn't need to find the entry 798 anyway, except to check that the kludge works (which it does) 799 - if user chooses to use Mindi's failsafe 2.4.9 kernel, Mindi will load 800 Mindi's versions of user's modules at boot-time 801 - make label-devices-as-necessary log its efforts 802 - added e2label and tune2fs to deplist.txt 803 - if you boot in Normal Mode, I'll call mondo-restore --interactive 804 instead of just mondo-restore 805 - replaced K7-compatible 2.4.7 kernel with a 586-comp'ble 2.4.9 kernel 806 - improved the post-run clean-up 807 - force the copying/loading of isofs.o and ide-cd.o, which enhances 808 Mindi's support for kernels that have modular CD-ROM support 809 - Interactive Mode offers to edit /tmp/mountlist.txt before running 810 mondo-restore (good idea from F. Boon) 811 - /dev/hd[e-h]* have been added to the ramdisk 812 - disabled Cuckoo and Bootstrap Modes (they weren't doing anything 813 anyway & were probably confusing some users) 814 - removed 'edit mountlist?' question (because mondo-restore takes 815 care of that now, via a user-friendly mountlist editor) 816 - included a copy of mondo-manual.html 817 - only kludge /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 (if vfat, of course); 818 otherwise, use regular mkfs.vfat 819 - use mkfs.dos if mkfs.vfat does not exist 820 - moved some scripts from rootfs.tgz to Mondo's restore-scripts.tgz 821 822 v0.38 08/18/2001 823 - clarified the 'more than one kernel found' comment 824 - updated the README to emphasize that the scripts are deprecated 825 - when displaying mountlist on screen, make it easier to read 826 - changed most 'echo's to 'LogIt()'s; log most screen output to 827 /var/log/mindi.log 828 - user can now use a stock 2.4.7 kernel (which comes with Mindi) 829 if the user's distro's kernel isn't right for a boot disk 830 831 v0.37 08/12/2001 832 - changed the boot screen a little bit 833 - changed the "cannot boot from CD-ROM" message (more informative now) 834 - if an 'insmod'ed module cannot be found, warn but don't abort 835 - that whole loop-mount/extract tgz to ramdisk thing --- if it fails, 836 abort, don't try to continue; also, ask if loopfs is supported by 837 kernel (if not, that might explain the error) 838 - in addition to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules, also search 839 /root/oss/modules for kernel modules (Phillip Deackes) 840 - run syslog and klogd at restore-time, to pipe sys & knl messages to 841 /tmp/mondo-restore.log 842 - default restore-time boot mode is now 'interactive' (unless the 843 disk is a 1.72MB, in which case default mode is still 'expert') 844 - if CDROM can't find itself (long story, re: El Torito) then the 845 script will say, "Your kernel is b0rken." This will reduce the 846 number of erroneous error reports that I receive from users 847 - working on implementing Cuckoo Mode again 848 849 v0.36 08/03/2001 850 - testing it with LM8, RH71 and Slack8 851 - explicitily exluding /mnt/floppy and /floppy from mountlist.txt 852 - warn if afio not found (Mondo needs afio) 853 - optional --custom <temp dir> <out dir> switch added, to let the user 854 specify where the temp dirs and created images will be stored 855 - changed /sbin/init to install modules _before_ trying to mount 856 CD-ROM (David Granz) 857 - create a gawk->awk shortcut at restore-time if necessary 858 - specifically exclude /dev/fd0h1440 and /dev/fd0H1440 from mountlist 859 - removed silly "was CD inserted?" message 860 861 v0.35 862 - if LILO fails, it writes its errors to the screen 863 - use user's boot.b and LILO instead of Mindi's 864 - tarball/RPM no longer includes boot.b or lilo 865 - mke2fs' output will be echoed to screen, if an error occurs 866 - doubled the -N inode allocations and removed some of the -i inode 867 fiddles, just in case they are making Red Hat 7.1 choke 868 869 v0.34 870 - includes patch to rid Mindi of its dependence on /dev/loop devices 611 - added date and sync to deplist again 612 - when working on LVM stuff, use 'echo y | pvcreate -ff' (was '..-f') 613 - amended format-...-kludge to allow for mountlists with >1 spaces between cols checked the fsck.reiserfs is in deplist.txt (yes it is) 614 - 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 615 - supports kernels that have MODULAR support for CD-ROM's or floppies 616 - Mindi copies only the loaded modules to the data disks but it copies _all_ modules to the CD, just in case 617 - thanks to busybox your floppy-based Mindi boot disk set should now be able to accommodate a kernel of up to 1MB in size 618 - boot into Expert Mode unless boot disk was generated by Mondo 619 - exclude all softlinks from list of 'eligible' kernels 620 - exclude kernels with 'vmlinux' in their names 621 - 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 :-) 622 - excludes libX11, libXext, libXi, libgtk, libgdk ALWAYS, whether you add them to deplist.txt or not; [cancel this by editing line 485] 623 - rewrote AddFileToDir() to make it more efficient (but slower...) 624 - strip chaff from binaries; strip comments from bash scripts; strip comments from /etc/termcap 625 626 v0.40 (2001-09-16) 627 - 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) 628 - 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 629 - if your kernel does not support loopfs, Mindi will say so & abort 630 - turned some warnings into fatal errors, to help the user to figure out exactly why Mindi won't work on their kernel 631 - changed mke2fs -N24 to -N32, to see if it helps braindead distros 632 - Mondo now tells Mindi whether or not to use its stock kernel 633 - gone back to the old 'insert-my-modules' for now; it's more reliable 634 - working on the 'insert-all-my-modules' script, to make it compatible with a wider range of insane distros and kernels 635 - dropped the '-c' option from LILO call - removed cdrecord, mkisofs, vi, route and diff from deplist.txt 636 - slowed down the 'split data between floppies' routine; made it try harder to squeeze more data onto each floppy 637 - excluding nvidia modules from the "insert-all-my-modules" script because it sometimes causes freeze-ups 638 - 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 639 640 v0.39 (2001-09-08) 641 - plays nicely with devfs, so long as your old /dev/hdX, /dev/sdX softlinks are still there :-) 642 - 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 643 - testing the failsafe kernel & associated scripts 644 - only use lilo's "-c" option if NOT a 2.88MB floppy disk image 645 - copes better with .o, .gz, etc. module suffixes 646 - better 'loaded modules / not loaded modules' feedback at boot-time 647 - 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'. 648 - removed the '-c' switch from the call to LILO (some BIOSes don't like it very much) 649 - removed chaff from ramdisk's /etc/login.defs, saving approx 7K 650 - format the boot disks with -N 24 (was -N 64) 651 - do not insist on CD #1 (at boot-time) if there is no 'CD #' marker 652 - 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) 653 - 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 654 - make label-devices-as-necessary log its efforts 655 - added e2label and tune2fs to deplist.txt 656 - if you boot in Normal Mode, I'll call mondo-restore --interactive instead of just mondo-restore 657 - replaced K7-compatible 2.4.7 kernel with a 586-comp'ble 2.4.9 kernel 658 - improved the post-run clean-up 659 - force the copying/loading of isofs.o and ide-cd.o, which enhances Mindi's support for kernels that have modular CD-ROM support 660 - Interactive Mode offers to edit /tmp/mountlist.txt before running mondo-restore (good idea from F. Boon) 661 - /dev/hd[e-h]* have been added to the ramdisk 662 - disabled Cuckoo and Bootstrap Modes (they weren't doing anything anyway & were probably confusing some users) 663 - removed 'edit mountlist?' question (because mondo-restore takes care of that now, via a user-friendly mountlist editor) 664 - included a copy of mondo-manual.html 665 - only kludge /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 (if vfat, of course); otherwise, use regular mkfs.vfat 666 - use mkfs.dos if mkfs.vfat does not exist 667 - moved some scripts from rootfs.tgz to Mondo's restore-scripts.tgz 668 669 v0.38 (2001-08-18) 670 - clarified the 'more than one kernel found' comment 671 - updated the README to emphasize that the scripts are deprecated 672 - when displaying mountlist on screen, make it easier to read 673 - changed most 'echo's to 'LogIt()'s; log most screen output to /var/log/mindi.log 674 - 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 675 676 v0.37 (2001-08-11) - changed the boot screen a little bit 677 - changed the "cannot boot from CD-ROM" message (more informative now) 678 - if an 'insmod'ed module cannot be found, warn but don't abort 679 - 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) 680 - in addition to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules, also search /root/oss/modules for kernel modules (Phillip Deackes) 681 - run syslog and klogd at restore-time, to pipe sys & knl messages to /tmp/mondo-restore.log 682 - default restore-time boot mode is now 'interactive' (unless the disk is a 1.72MB, in which case default mode is still 'expert') 683 - 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 684 - working on implementing Cuckoo Mode again 685 686 v0.36 (2001-08-03) 687 - testing it with LM8, RH71 and Slack8 688 - explicitily exluding /mnt/floppy and /floppy from mountlist.txt 689 - warn if afio not found (Mondo needs afio) 690 - optional --custom <temp dir> <out dir> switch added, to let the user specify where the temp dirs and created images will be stored 691 - changed /sbin/init to install modules _before_ trying to mount CD-ROM (David Granz) 692 - create a gawk->awk shortcut at restore-time if necessary 693 - specifically exclude /dev/fd0h1440 and /dev/fd0H1440 from mountlist 694 - removed silly "was CD inserted?" message 695 696 v0.35 (2001-07-31) 697 - if LILO fails, it writes its errors to the screen 698 - use user's boot.b and LILO instead of Mindi's 699 - tarball/RPM no longer includes boot.b or lilo 700 - mke2fs' output will be echoed to screen, if an error occurs 701 - doubled the -N inode allocations and removed some of the -i inode fiddles, just in case they are making Red Hat 7.1 choke 702 703 v0.34 (2001-07-25) 704 - includes patch to rid Mindi of its dependence on /dev/loop devices 871 705 (Bill Davidsen) 872 - includes patch from 0ystein Skalsem, to fix a disk-formatting problem 873 - warns if kernel is 2.4.0-2.4.5; encourages user to upgrade 874 875 v0.33 876 - excludes all devices containing ':/' (i.e. NFS mountlists) 877 - the FORMAT/SYS replacement, "format-and-kludge-vfat" now writes 878 its logfile to /tmp/format-and-kludge-vfat.log 879 - /etc/fstab now mounts floppies for read/write access by default 880 - format-and-kludge-vfat should only write to log once now 881 - added vi, top to deplist.txt 882 - updated the rootfs.tgz's README 883 - mountlist is written to screen as well as mountlist.txt 884 - tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine 885 - changed 'mkfs' lines, to format the loop-mounted files instead of the 886 device nodes which makes Mindi work better with kernels 2.4.6+ 887 - Mindi can now handle kernels of up to 930K in size 888 - sped up the process of spreading data files across data disks 889 by approx 20% 890 891 v0.32 892 - software RAID is now supported 893 - added the 'raidtools' binaries to deplist.txt 894 - add /etc/fstab and /etc/raidtab to deplist.txt 895 - added /dev/md* to the ramdisk's /dev directory 896 - modified MakeMountlist() to calculate correctly the sizes of 897 RAID partitions, if they are present in /etc/fstab 898 - moved the 'LOOPDEVICE=...' code into the regular main() section 899 - install-additional-tools makes a softlink '/etc/raidtab' that points 900 to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/raidtab; also, '/etc/fstab.orig' that points 901 to /mnt/groovy-stuff/etc/fstab 902 - added line to 'install-additional-tools' that will delete the 903 dummy modprobe before installing data from datadisk(s) 904 - mkdir -p $outdir at the beginning, just in case... 905 906 v0.31 907 - included DoJ's patch to make Mindi play more nicely with devfs 908 - slightly better install.sh and README 909 910 v0.30 911 - added klogd and syslogd to deplist.txt 912 - can now cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" entries in /etc/fstab 913 - should ignore NFS-mounted partitions now 914 915 v0.29 916 - stopped the 'modprobe' errors that used to occur at the beginning; 917 they didn't mean anything but they did worry some novice users 918 - removed losetup from rootfs.tgz (wasn't doing anything useful) 919 - removed the 'txt-or-gui' stuff from Mindi (never used it anyway) 920 - added clear to deplist.txt 921 - moved rootfs.tgz's "mondo/" scripts to Mondo's "restore-scripts.tgz" 922 tarball; tarball will be untarred and contents added to the 923 data disks at run-time, if Mindi finds the tarball 924 - if user lacks fd0u1722 but has fd0h1722 then use the latter 925 - boot-up msg is more informative 926 - fixed obscure bug in find-and-mount-cdrom 927 - better at coping with hda1/2/3/4 (normal people use hda1/5/6/7 but 928 if you really want to exhaust your primaries, well hey, your life) 929 - the 'outstring sucks!' message is now more informative 930 931 v0.28 932 - if AddFileToDir() is called with a file that does not exist, Mindi 933 warns but does not abort 934 - should work with gzipped modules (which end in '.o.gz') and 935 NVidia modules (which don't end in anything) 936 - should work with Red Hat's issue.net now 937 - misc. cosmetic changes to Mondo boot-time and restore-phase scripts, 938 to make the visual output cleaner & more legible 939 - insist-on-cd retracts the CD tray after asking for next CD, in case 940 the user did not close the drive before pressing <enter> 941 - if unable to create 1.72MB boot disk then warn but do not abort 942 - put creation date on the boot-up screen 943 - create data disks with tarballs up to 1700KB in size; tries harder 944 to fill each data disk to the brim 945 - changed the call to make ext3 partitions; now, it uses a call to 946 mkfs -t ext3 -j -Jsize=10 -q <device> (as requested by ext3 manual) 947 - tested w/ext3; works fine 948 - install-additional-tools doesn't call sync until after all softlinks 949 have been finalized; that's to make sure we call the _right_ sync 950 - ramdisk is now (size of all files in data disks PLUS 8192) KB 951 - RPM and SRPM published 952 - mount CDROM at start of untar-me, just in case it wasn't mounted 953 - when restoring selectively, log the archives that have matches 954 & the number of matches (inc. if zero) 955 956 v0.26 957 - has been tested with XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, ext2 and vfat 958 - compatible (but not tested) with ext3 959 - better at finding your kernel, even if you have several kernels 960 of the same version (now checks the build date, too) 961 - better file-spreading algorithm; a little faster; much more reliable 962 - includes a copy of LILO, to make the boot disks properly 963 - tells you how big the tarballs are, when it assembles them 964 - compare-me uses 'insist-on-cd' instead of internal subroutine 965 - it looks as if Mindi can actually cope with 920K kernels now :) 966 - fixed some silly multi-CD bugs that would stop big files from being 967 restored if they were spread across CD's 968 969 v0.25 970 - uses its own copy of lilo 971 - removed all "~" (backup copies) from rootfs.tgz 972 - updated the rootfs's README - stablilo-me, not hack-me 973 - improved the formatting of the lilo.conf as it is created 974 - replace all libc5 tools with libc6 (user's) tools at restore-time 975 - added diff to deplist.txt 976 - copy io.sys and msdos.sys (if found) to data disk(s) at 977 run-time; softlinks them to /*.sys at boot-time 978 - fixed some vfat formatting-related issues w/Embleer (always tricky); 979 the kludge's error-handling is better and its exit is more graceful 980 - say 'type nuke to restore automatically' in msg if Mondo called me 981 - backup all modules, not just the ones present/loaded at run-time; 982 the loaded modules go on boot disk but ALL go on data disk 983 - reduced the max data per disk from 1700 to 1680, to suit ext2's needs 984 - DidMondoCallMe() replaces 'ps ax | grep | blah blah' 985 - includes user's /etc/termcap and /usr/bin/pico on disk(s) 986 - cosmetic changes to restore-time scripts (spaces, newlines, etc.) 987 - pipe kernel's msgs to /var/log/messages 988 - make sure /etc/lilo.conf is 600 (RW by root only) 989 990 v0.24 991 - can accommodate a kernel >900KB in size 992 - generates lilo.conf on-the-fly; no default/template file anymore 993 - copies io.sys and msdos.sys to the CD (if you have them) 994 - add the embleer tarballs to mindi-0.xx.tgz, so that users can 995 format and make bootable msdos/Win9x partitions 996 - added printf and hdparm to deplist.txt 997 - incorporated Bruno Cornec's Mondo 0.991 scripts in Mindi 998 - separated README into README, INSTALL and TODO 999 - fixed silly {ramdisk}/sbin/InsistOnCD bug 1000 - took out mke2fs and libext from rootfs.tgz 1001 - rootfs.tgz's "/etc/bashrc" now includes /usr/share/mindi 1002 - compare-mode uses IDE optimization to speed things up 1003 - don't quibble over resizing partitions if <2MB difference 1004 - fixed silly InsistOnCD bug 1005 1006 v0.23 1007 - don't copy *.mdsg to boot floppy image 1008 - fixed erroneous 'cannot make ISO image' error message 1009 - can accommodate a kernel as large as 890K 1010 - now uses lilo, not syslinux (lilo works better w/2.88MB boot images) 1011 - creates & formats disk images on the fly (no more .img.gz templates) 1012 - boot disks are formatted ext2, like the data disks 1013 - creates 1.72MB and El Torito 2.88MB boot floppies/images 1014 - if called by Mondo, doesn't list images or offer to copy to FDD/CDRw 1015 - includes the distro's name and kernel version in LILO's message 1016 1017 v0.22 1018 - don't add a ramdisk; use rootfs & that's it 1019 - dependency-calculator runs approx. twice as fast as in v0.20 1020 - tested with Linux Mandrake 8.0; works well, if you recompile 1021 kernel to include floppy disk support (which LM8's kernel does not) 1022 - supports bigger kernels now, up to 900K in size 1023 - deplist.txt may now include directories, not just files 1024 - ignores kernel filenames that are hyperlinks 1025 - uses awk instead of gawk; drop the awk/gawk-finding thing 1026 - uses gzip, not bzip2; dropped bzip2, mv, ls to make rootfs smaller 1027 - copies user's /dev/fd0* devices to boot disk 1028 - calls Mindi's copy of syslinux, not user's copy 1029 - use modules' paths, e.g. instead of just 'insmod fubar', use 1030 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac117/vfat/fubar.o' 1031 - in boot.msg, XXXXX is part 1 of the 2nd line, YYYYY is part 2 of 1032 the 2nd line, and ZZZZZ is Mindi's version# (in the 1st line) 1033 1034 v0.21 1035 - df, du, find, lsmod, rmmod have been removed from rootfs.tgz 1036 - at boot-time, inserts kernel modules w/user's original parameters 1037 - deletes the slices after recombining them & restoring the files 1038 - includes the MINDI_VER version number in boot.msg 1039 - if boot disk is too small, lists the files & which one is too big 1040 - syslinux now waits 10 seconds before booting floppy 1041 - 'insert-all-my-modules' is copied to rootfs, not to a data disk 706 - includes patch from 0ystein Skalsem, to fix a disk-formatting problem 707 - warns if kernel is 2.4.0-2.4.5; encourages user to upgrade 708 709 v0.33 (2001-07-20) 710 - excludes all devices containing ':/' (i.e. NFS mountlists) 711 - the FORMAT/SYS replacement, "format-and-kludge-vfat" now writes its logfile to /tmp/format-and-kludge-vfat.log 712 - /etc/fstab now mounts floppies for read/write access by default 713 - format-and-kludge-vfat should only write to log once now 714 - added vi, top to deplist.txt 715 - updated the rootfs.tgz's README 716 - mountlist is written to screen as well as mountlist.txt 717 - tested with Linux 2.4.7; works fine 718 - changed 'mkfs' lines, to format the loop-mounted files instead of the device nodes which makes Mindi work better with kernels 2.4.6+ 719 - Mindi can now handle kernels of up to 930K in size 720 - sped up the process of spreading data files across data disks by approx 20% 721 722 v0.32 (2001-07-18) 723 - software RAID is now supported 724 - added the 'raidtools' binaries to deplist.txt 725 - add /etc/fstab and /etc/raidtab to deplist.txt 726 - added /dev/md* to the ramdisk's /dev directory 727 - modified MakeMountlist() to calculate correctly the sizes of RAID partitions, if they are present in /etc/fstab 728 - moved the 'LOOPDEVICE=...' code into the regular main() section 729 - 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 730 - added line to 'install-additional-tools' that will delete the dummy modprobe before installing data from datadisk(s) 731 - mkdir -p $outdir at the beginning, just in case... 732 733 v0.31 (2001-07-16) - included DoJ's patch to make Mindi play more nicely with devfs 734 - slightly better install.sh and README 735 736 v0.30 (2001-07-15) 737 - added klogd and syslogd to deplist.txt 738 - can now cope with Red Hat's "LABEL=" entries in /etc/fstab 739 - should ignore NFS-mounted partitions now 740 741 v0.29 (2001-07-14) 742 - stopped the 'modprobe' errors that used to occur at the beginning; they didn't mean anything but they did worry some novice users 743 - removed losetup from rootfs.tgz (wasn't doing anything useful) 744 - removed the 'txt-or-gui' stuff from Mindi (never used it anyway) 745 - added clear to deplist.txt 746 - 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 747 - if user lacks fd0u1722 but has fd0h1722 then use the latter 748 - boot-up msg is more informative 749 - fixed obscure bug in find-and-mount-cdrom 750 - 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) 751 - the 'outstring sucks!' message is now more informative 752 753 v0.28 (2001-07-07) 754 - if AddFileToDir() is called with a file that does not exist, Mindi warns but does not abort 755 - should work with gzipped modules (which end in '.o.gz') and NVidia modules (which don't end in anything) 756 - should work with Red Hat's issue.net now 757 - misc. cosmetic changes to Mondo boot-time and restore-phase scripts, to make the visual output cleaner & more legible 758 - insist-on-cd retracts the CD tray after asking for next CD, in case the user did not close the drive before pressing <enter> 759 - if unable to create 1.72MB boot disk then warn but do not abort 760 - put creation date on the boot-up screen 761 - create data disks with tarballs up to 1700KB in size; tries harder to fill each data disk to the brim 762 - 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) 763 - tested w/ext3; works fine 764 - install-additional-tools doesn't call sync until after all softlinks have been finalized; that's to make sure we call the _right_ sync 765 - ramdisk is now (size of all files in data disks PLUS 8192) KB 766 - RPM and SRPM published 767 - mount CDROM at start of untar-me, just in case it wasn't mounted 768 - when restoring selectively, log the archives that have matches & the number of matches (inc. if zero) 769 770 v0.26 (2001-07-05) 771 - has been tested with XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, ext2 and vfat 772 - compatible (but not tested) with ext3 773 - better at finding your kernel, even if you have several kernels of the same version (now checks the build date, too) 774 - better file-spreading algorithm; a little faster; much more reliable 775 - includes a copy of LILO, to make the boot disks properly 776 - tells you how big the tarballs are, when it assembles them 777 - compare-me uses 'insist-on-cd' instead of internal subroutine 778 - it looks as if Mindi can actually cope with 920K kernels now :) 779 - fixed some silly multi-CD bugs that would stop big files from being restored if they were spread across CD's 780 781 v0.25 (2001-07-04) 782 - uses its own copy of lilo 783 - removed all "~" (backup copies) from rootfs.tgz 784 - updated the rootfs's README - stablilo-me, not hack-me 785 - improved the formatting of the lilo.conf as it is created 786 - replace all libc5 tools with libc6 (user's) tools at restore-time 787 - added diff to deplist.txt 788 - copy io.sys and msdos.sys (if found) to data disk(s) at run-time; softlinks them to /*.sys at boot-time 789 - fixed some vfat formatting-related issues w/Embleer (always tricky); the kludge's error-handling is better and its exit is more graceful 790 - say 'type nuke to restore automatically' in msg if Mondo called me 791 - 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 792 - reduced the max data per disk from 1700 to 1680, to suit ext2's needs 793 - DidMondoCallMe() replaces 'ps ax | grep | blah blah' 794 - includes user's /etc/termcap and /usr/bin/pico on disk(s) 795 - cosmetic changes to restore-time scripts (spaces, newlines, etc.) 796 - pipe kernel's msgs to /var/log/messages 797 - make sure /etc/lilo.conf is 600 (RW by root only) 798 799 v0.24 (2001-07-03) 800 - can accommodate a kernel >900KB in size 801 - generates lilo.conf on-the-fly; no default/template file anymore 802 - copies io.sys and msdos.sys to the CD (if you have them) 803 - add the embleer tarballs to mindi-0.xx.tgz, so that users can format and make bootable msdos/Win9x partitions 804 - added printf and hdparm to deplist.txt 805 - incorporated Bruno Cornec's Mondo 0.991 scripts in Mindi 806 - separated README into README, INSTALL and TODO 807 - fixed silly {ramdisk}/sbin/InsistOnCD bug 808 - took out mke2fs and libext from rootfs.tgz 809 - rootfs.tgz's "/etc/bashrc" now includes /usr/share/mindi 810 - compare-mode uses IDE optimization to speed things up 811 - don't quibble over resizing partitions if <2MB difference 812 - fixed silly InsistOnCD bug 813 814 v0.23 (2001-07-02) 815 - don't copy *.mdsg to boot floppy image 816 - fixed erroneous 'cannot make ISO image' error message 817 - can accommodate a kernel as large as 890K 818 - now uses lilo, not syslinux (lilo works better w/2.88MB boot images) 819 - creates & formats disk images on the fly (no more .img.gz templates) 820 - boot disks are formatted ext2, like the data disks 821 - creates 1.72MB and El Torito 2.88MB boot floppies/images 822 - if called by Mondo, doesn't list images or offer to copy to FDD/CDRw 823 - includes the distro's name and kernel version in LILO's message 824 825 v0.22 (2001-07-01) 826 - don't add a ramdisk; use rootfs & that's it 827 - dependency-calculator runs approx. twice as fast as in v0.20 828 - tested with Linux Mandrake 8.0; works well, if you recompile kernel to include floppy disk support (which LM8's kernel does not) 829 - supports bigger kernels now, up to 900K in size 830 - deplist.txt may now include directories, not just files 831 - ignores kernel filenames that are hyperlinks 832 - uses awk instead of gawk; drop the awk/gawk-finding thing 833 - uses gzip, not bzip2; dropped bzip2, mv, ls to make rootfs smaller 834 - copies user's /dev/fd0* devices to boot disk 835 - calls Mindi's copy of syslinux, not user's copy 836 - use modules' paths, e.g. instead of just 'insmod fubar', use 'insmod /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac117/vfat/fubar.o' 837 - 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) 838 839 v0.21 (2001-06-30) 840 - df, du, find, lsmod, rmmod have been removed from rootfs.tgz 841 - at boot-time, inserts kernel modules w/user's original parameters 842 - deletes the slices after recombining them & restoring the files 843 - includes the MINDI_VER version number in boot.msg 844 - if boot disk is too small, lists the files & which one is too big 845 - syslinux now waits 10 seconds before booting floppy 846 - 'insert-all-my-modules' is copied to rootfs, not to a data disk -
trunk/mindi/README.pxe
r618 r672 11 11 label mondo 12 12 kernel vmlinuz-mondo 13 append initrd=initrd-mondo load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=36864 rw root=/dev/ram iso_mode acpi=off apm=off devfs=nomount exec-shield=0 pxe [prefix="machine"] [ipconf=(ipdev:ipadr:netmask:broadcast:gateway|ipdev:dhcp)] [ ping=#] ...13 append initrd=initrd-mondo load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=36864 rw root=/dev/ram iso_mode acpi=off apm=off devfs=nomount exec-shield=0 pxe [prefix="machine"] [ipconf=(ipdev:ipadr:netmask:broadcast:gateway|ipdev:dhcp)] [nfsmount=server:mountpoint] [ping=#] ... 14 14 15 15 ipdev is the device name (e.g. eth2) … … 19 19 gateway is the default gateway (e.g. 192.168.1.254) 20 20 dhcp is a keyword. Using it will provide all the previous 4 values to activate the LAN interface. 21 server is the ip addr of the NFS server 22 mountpoint is the mount point on the NFS server to use (should be in /etc/exports of the NFS server) 21 23 22 24 The initrd and kernel file come rom the first bootable media … … 34 36 Without prefix keyword, the name of the images used during archiving with the -p option will be used (they may differ). If -p wasn't used then the name mondorescue-1.iso, ... will be used. 35 37 36 During boot mondorestore will start your NFS configuration and mount mondo's content from the network rather than from a physical media. You may alter the IP configuration stored from the original machine by passing the ipconf option describing respectively the IP address, netmask, broadcast and default gateway you want to setup for the machine, separated by ':'. Or alternatively, you may specify the dhcp keyword so that a DHCP request is made to get those information. In the 2 cases, you have to mention on which physical interface those parameters should apply. On some configurations, you may also want to increase the number of ping queries made before the NFS mount, which is of 3 by default, using the ping option and give the number you want. 38 During boot mondorestore will start your NFS configuration and mount mondo's content from the network rather than from a physical media. You may alter the IP configuration stored from the original machine by passing the ipconf option describing respectively the IP address, netmask, broadcast and default gateway you want to setup for the machine, separated by ':'. Or alternatively, you may specify the dhcp keyword so that a DHCP request is made to get those information. In the 2 cases, you have to mention on which physical interface those parameters should apply. On some configurations, you may also want to increase the number of ping queries made before the NFS mount, which is of 3 by default, using the ping option and give the number you want. If you have a different NFS server for the deployment than for the archiving, you can also precise it through the nfsmount option. The structure on both server under the mountpoint has to be the same. 37 39 38 40 Please report any problem around that tool to bruno@mondorescue.org 39 41 42 2006-06-10 nfsmount added to allow redeployment from another NFS server 40 43 2006-06-02 ipdev added to allow redeployment on another interface 41 44 2005-12-18 new ipconf and ping option
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