2006-03-20 Mondo 2.0.7 / Mindi 1.0.7 are out

I'm happy to announce the availability of the latest and greatest version of mondo 2.0.7 / mindi 1.0.7. Version numbers have changed of format to be more in line with what is done generally (x.y.z)

Now available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org :

mandrake/10.1/mindi-1.0.7-447.101mdk.i386.rpm
mandrake/10.1/mondo-2.0.7-447.101mdk.i386.rpm
mandrake/10.2/mindi-1.0.7-447.102mdk.i386.rpm
mandrake/10.2/mondo-2.0.7-447.102mdk.i386.rpm
mandriva/2006.0/mindi-1.0.7-447.20060mdk.i386.rpm
mandriva/2006.0/mondo-2.0.7-447.20060mdk.i386.rpm
src/mindi-1.0.7-r447.tgz
src/mondo-2.0.7-r447.tgz

Other distributions will follow asap (should be able to produce soon redhat 7.3, fedora core 4, and only after rhel3/4 and sles9) due to the change in the virtual machines I have to do (now using qemu + more tools to generate RPMs)

The focus on this version has been more around the new website and documentation, and a bit less on code. So some persistant bugs are still not corrected (some dvd burning issues and dm/lvm2 support mainly) and will be hopefully in 2.0.8.

MONDO CHANGES

v2.07 (2006-02-23)
- 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)
- use df -P everywhere (Bruno Cornec)
- Paypal incitations removed (Andree Leidenfrost)
- mondo now uses /usr/share for the restore-scripts (Bruno Cornec)
- rpmlint cleanups (Bruno Cornec)
- 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)
- mondoarchive aborts when 'mindi --findkernel' gives a fatal error (See also Debian bug #352323.) (Andree Leidenfrost)
- /tmp not excluded anymore from backup (Bruno Cornec)
- New RPM Build environement (Bruno Cornec)

MINDI CHANGES

1.07 (2006-02-23)
- 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)
- Doc cleanup (Andree Leidenfrost)
- Bug fix for chown in install.sh (JeffS)
- CHANGES renamed also in install.sh now (Bruno Cornec)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)

2006-02-21 Mondo Rescue has a new Web site

Thanks to Ayo's authorization, and after 2 weeks of hard work, we are proud to announce that we now have a new and updated Web site. We hope it will be useful and wait for your feedback.

You may find it at http://www.mondorescue.org (IP: 213.30.161.23)

2006-02-05 Mondo Rescue referenced by HP

Mondorescue has been officially referenced by the HP OpenSource Portal: http://opensource.hp.com/index.php (look in the "Recently released" area)

2006-02-02 Mondo Rescue rsync server available

In our always increasing set of services :-) I'd like to announce the availability of an rsync mirror service for mondo-rescue. Try rsync rsync.mondorescue.org::