Changelog for mindi-0.67-3.i386.rpm :
Sun Oct 27 05:00:00 2002 Jesse Keating 0.67-3
- fixed version name in mindi
- match to mondo version

Tue Oct 22 06:00:00 2002 Jesse Keating 0.67-2
- Fixed _sysconfdir/mindi/deplist.txt issue.
- clean up spec, use path macros.

Sun Oct 20 06:00:00 2002 Jesse Keating 0.67-1
- version bump to 0.67
- revamp relocation settings
- updated deplists, attempt at making /etc/mindi/deplist.txt work w/ --relocate
- first stab at building for RH 8.0

Thu Oct 17 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.66_20021016
- better logging by dependency-calculating code
- better Debian compatibility, esp. w/detection of ver# (Hector Alvarez)
- double EXTRA_SPACE if >7 disks
- line 1931 - dd count=24000 should be count=$ramdisksize (Andras Korn)
- better handling of non-Linux partitions on DevFS-enabled kernels
- fixed Debian/ramdisksize/bloat problem (Johannes Franken)
- fixed 2.4.20/fdisk eccentricity (Alistair Stevens)
- better at finding /boot/boot.b if your distro breaks the de facto standard
- back-ported MakeMountlist() from mindi-0.7x

Wed Aug 14 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.66-1
- minor clean-up
- better handling of dependencies, esp. softlinks
- changed several gawks to awks, for broken Debian distributions
- if user installs Mindi 0.7x, removes it and installs Mindi 0.6x,
ignore /etc/mindi (if it\'s empty); it was created by 0.7x :)
- fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling
multiple, same-version kernels gracefully

Mon Jul 15 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.64-1
- fixed RH7.3 readonly bug
- improved nfs config file creation
- search more locations for isolinux.bin
- added isonuke option
- faster data disk creation
- better DevFS support (Hector Alvarez, DuckX)
- nfs-related fix (Hans Lie)
- abort if vfat filesystem present but mkfs.vfat missing
- removed softlink to pico
- allow Mondo to say no compression will be used
- added [ to ramdisk
- tar data disks with -b [block size] of 32k
- don\'t autoboot to \'RESTORE\' screen - it\'s scary!
- let user choose lilo or syslinux as boot loader
- added syslinux support
- cleaned up message screens

Wed Jun 5 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.63-7
- improved logging

Mon Jun 3 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.63-6
- sped it up a bit
- fixed ISO creation bug

Thu May 23 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.63-5
- fixed RAID mountlist bug (Daniel Grandjean)
- better at German kbd support (Klaus Guntermann)
- no longer abort if MONDO_PATH cannot be discerned

Tue May 7 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.63-4
- added less.bin to deplist.txt
- copy mondo-restore.cfg config file to /var/cache/mondo-archive
- increased EXTRA_SPACE to 16384
- fixed bug in -H (RESTORE) function

Mon Apr 29 06:00:00 2002 Jesse Keating 0.63-3
- fixed to build 0.63-3
- new .spec file (Jesse Keating)

Mon Apr 29 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.63-2
- added mkdir -p to fix mountlist-copying bug (Bruno Vidal)
- make sure mindi.iso (for tape users)\'s kernel is called vmlinuz

Wed Apr 24 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.63-1
- minor cosmetic improvements
- improved homedir-locating code
- make sure kernel is copied to [cd build dir]/vmlinuz

Thu Apr 11 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.62-1
- keep certain /dev directories compressed until boot-time, to allow
Mindi to support larger kernels
- add /dev/nst
* to ramdisk via tarball (Barry Samuels)
- cleaned up /sbin/post-init a bit, re: mondo-restore v mondorestore
- better at detecting current kernel in use
- amend isolinux.cfg to specify the correct ramdisk size

Mon Apr 1 06:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.60-1
- bootable CD\'s now use ISOLINUX instead of LILO (Andy Glass)
- abort if isolinux not found
- abort if multiple copies of Mindi found lying around
- include mountlist.txt in ramdisk

Fri Mar 22 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.59-1
- change sbin/init\'s Die() function (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)
- improve friendliness of kernel-related warning msg (Andy Glass)
- added s/w switch re: making floppies (Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom)

Mon Mar 11 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.58-7
- excluded two unused vars (Carl Soderstrom)

Mon Mar 4 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.58-6
- 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

Mon Feb 25 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.58-5
- pathname problem fixed (Fred Feirtag)
- patch to Debianize mindi a bit (H�ctor Garc�a �lvarez)
- removed mondo-manual.html
- moved /dev/{cciss,ida,rd} from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
- cleaned up the refs to analyze-my-lvm a bit (Hugo)
- sped up disk-creation by 20-30%
- make sure mondo-restore.cfg is on data disk as well as boot disk
- added support for -C (cdstream) mode

Tue Feb 19 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.58-4
- 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

Mon Feb 18 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.58-3
- misc enhancements
- uses self-resizing ramdisk (tmpfs) for /tmp
- allows Mondo to exclude certain devices from mountlist
- replaced &> /dev/null with > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
- incorporated .spec patch (Ian Kent)
- added vi to busybox again

Tue Feb 12 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.58-2
- fixed errant tar warning
- replaced libc5 with uClibc
- compiled busybox and open against uClibc
- moved minor scripts+tools from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
- Mindi can now accommodate a kernel of up to 1290KB in size
- no longer insists on cdrecord being present

Mon Feb 11 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.58-1
- more pointed error messages
- fixed silly \'cp\' error (Markus Marquardt)
- use type C\'s embleer file for type B Windows partitions
- increased EXTRA_SPACE from 4096 to 8192
- cosmetic bugfixes
- nfs users boot into nfs options by default

Wed Feb 6 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.57-1
- abort if mounted partition is specified as an imagedev
- understand \'FAILSAFE\' as kernel alternative
- added analyze-my-lvm to tools available thru PATH
- better discovery of locale and keymap file (Claude Mah�)
- compatible with 1.2x and the new 1.38+ stuff
- better \'bug-me\' script (Troff)

Sat Feb 2 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.56-1
- compatible with Mondo v1.5x devel branch
- mindi\'s softlink now goes in /usr/sbin; was /usr/bin
- include nfs.o, nfsd.o, lockd.o and sunrpc.o on data disks if available
- patched .spec file to make it easier to change installdir (Ian Mortimer)
- updated README
- 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

Tue Jan 29 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.55-1
- 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 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)
- patch from Andrej Borsenkow to help w/Mandrake 8.1
- disabled ramdisk free space checker (some distros don\'t like it)

Sat Jan 26 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.54-1
- don\'t abort if kernel is too big for 1.72MB floppy
- better handling of eccentric distros and their keybd layouts
- added gawk and awk to deplist
- added LILO to .spec file
- changed a couple of FatalError()\'s to Die()\'s
- better TurboLinux 7 / LVM compatibility

Mon Jan 21 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.53-1
- better support of non-Red Hat, non-Debian keyboard resource files
- cleaned up /sbin/init\'s output
- replaced libc5 mount with user\'s own \'mount\'
- updated embleer.C.bz2
- missing /dev/hdb2 found & replaced (Troff)
- populated /dev/rd and /dev/ida on ramdisk (Michael Eisenberg)
- improved SizeOfPartition() function
- 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
- improved support for XFS users who opt to use failsafe kernel
- uses user\'s lsmod, depmod, insmod, etc.
- fixed freeze-up resulting from missing \'cat $mappath\' command
- mount tmpfs at /tmp/tmpfs for mondo-restore\'s benefit
- try to create /dev/fd0u1722 if it is missing from /dev
- added .spec file to tarball

Fri Jan 11 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.52-2
- 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
- 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
- always make mindi.iso

Mon Jan 7 05:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.52-1
- ramdisk\'s size has been tweaked
- if script \'bootstrap\' is found at boot-time then execute it
- use tty8 to show mondo\'s output log
- use tty7 to offer a game of Petris (if it exists on disk)
- be sure to use i386-only keymaps
- 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
- if LILO\'s \"/tmp/dev.0\" error occurs then abort & tell user to reboot
- losetup /dev/loop0 -d before calling LILO (Norm Crowfoot)
- /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
- Mindi now lives in /usr/local/mindi
- don\'t use LILO\'s optimizations when creating boot floppy; however,
optimizations are used on CD unless --broken-bios in call to Mondo
- don\'t write data disks to start of tape; let Mondo do that
- 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

Wed Dec 26 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.51-1
- removed libm.
* from rootfs.tgz
- replaced sh with busybox\'s ash
- upgraded busybox to 0.60-2; pared it down, too
- include tape-related modules on boot disk, if backing up to tape
- creates a tape-friendly tarball containing tools+modules
- reassembly of tools+libraries is more reliable now
- streamlined deplist.txt
- give user their localized keyboard layout at boot-time
- fix some cosmetic bugs

Thu Dec 20 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.50-4
- log Mindi\'s version# in the event of a fatal error
- make Mindi\'s boot-time output more esthetically pleasing
- if filesystem is \'image\' according to Mondo then set its partition type
to the hexadecimal string used by fdisk to describe it

Sun Dec 16 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.50-2
- support for newer features in Mondo v1.3x

Thu Dec 13 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.50-1
- correctly lists RAID constituent partitions in mountlist
- breaks compatibility with Mondo v1.2x
- ignore any weird lines in /etc/fstab: don\'t abort
- cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-init

Mon Dec 10 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.48-2
- locate root-dir modules on ramdisk more effectively
- if RAID controller(s) detected then pause for 10s to let it/them initialize
- cleaned up /sbin/init and /sbin/post-init
- better detection of and compatibility with SCSI CD-ROM drives
- chopsize is 64KB; was 128KB
- cleaned up mindi\'s logging

Sun Dec 9 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.48-1
- better logging of find-and-mount-cdrom\'s progress (to /tmp/mondo-restore.log)
- excluded lilo and lilo.conf from deplist.txt again; somehow it crept back in
- added \'linear\' to list of modules Mindi always backs up
- if called by Mondo then record the name & device of the user\'s boot loader
- try to mount CD-ROM drive after booting from floppies, just in case
- added fix to make sure /root/images/mindi is created (Charlie Root)
- aware of \'iso\' and \'nfs\' boot modes now, for future expansion

Wed Dec 5 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.47-1
- added /dev/cdrom/cdrom[1-4] to the list of devices excluded from mountlist
- added \'-f-\' to most calls to tar, to fix a Debian-related bug
- added network-related dependencies to deplist.txt
- added mondo-restore to deplist.txt
- do not write floppy images to disks if Mondo called me; let Mondo do it
- finally managed to make klogd squelch echoing of kernel msgs to console

Wed Nov 28 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.46-1
- cosmetic changes and minor bugfixes
- excluded lilo and lilo.conf from deplist.txt; use user\'s copies instead
- handles bad RAID devices in fstab/raidtab more sensibly now
- fixed a bug in bug-me (heh, how ironic)

Fri Nov 16 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.45-4
- added md5sum to deplist.txt
- added pico->vi softlink to ramdisk
- in ramdisk\'s /etc/bashrc, add /usr/local/bin,sbin to PATH= command
- tweaked max data disk size and data disk formatting command
- removed lzop.
* from aux-tools; should come from user\'s distro anyway
- disabled fsck.
* in deplist.txt

Tue Nov 13 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.45-2
- added md5sum->busybox softlink
- improved the README / FAQ file

Mon Nov 12 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.45-1
- now lets Mondo ask for failsafe kernel - annoying bug finally fixed
- expanded busybox\'s facilities; dropped some files from deplist.txt
- busybox now makes \'vi\' available to user
- no longer include lzop in tarball/RPM; user must install it themselves
- restructured /sbin/post-init\'s calls that initialize LVM and RAID
- cache added to speed up execution (Jean-David Marrow)
- tested with Red Hat 7.2 and Linux-Mandrake 8.0

Mon Oct 29 05:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.44-1
- activate LV\'s at boot-time if they exist
- re-enabled \'fsck.
*\' entries in deplist.txt
- analyze-my-lvm

Sun Oct 21 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.43-3
- works with Red Hat 6.2 now

Thu Oct 18 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.43-2
- fixed module-processing bug

Mon Oct 15 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.43-1
- removed losetup from \'Requires\'
- updated failsafe kernel to 2.4.12+modules (inc. JFS, XFS and SCSI)

Thu Oct 11 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.42-2

* Sat Oct 06 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.42-1
- added dev.tgz and aux-tools.tgz

Sat Sep 29 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.41-5

* Fri Sep 21 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.41-2

Mon Sep 17 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.40-5

* Sat Sep 08 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.39-9
- replaced stock kernel with a 586-compatible 2.4.9
- added mondo-manual.html

Sun Aug 19 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.38
- added stock 2.4.7 kernel & modules

Mon Aug 13 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.37

* Thu Aug 02 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.36

Tue Jul 31 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.35
- removed lilo and boot-txt.b from package

Sun Jul 29 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.34

* Sun Jul 22 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.33

Fri Jul 20 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.32

* Mon Jul 16 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.31
- includes DoJ\'s devfs patch

Mon Jul 16 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.30

* Sat Jul 14 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.29
- removed libncurses5 from the \'required\' RPM list
- Mondo\'s restore scripts now live in Mondo

Sat Jul 7 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.28
- can handle Red Hat\'s /etc/issue.net file now
- can handle modules whose filenames don\'t end in \'.o\'

Fri Jul 6 06:00:00 2001 Hugo Rabson 0.27
- first release of a Mindi RPM