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Changelog for mindi-0.86-1SuSE.i386.rpm :
Thu Aug 28 12:00:00 2003 Anonymous 0.86
- allow absolute pathnames again in deplist
- disable multifunc cd thing
- better Gentoo support (Daniel F Dickinson, Bill)

Thu Jul 24 12:00:00 2003 Hugo Rabson 0.86
- altered rootfs\'s /dev entry to stop cvs from becoming confused
- analyze-my-lvm path bug fixed (Peter Gibbs)
- re-mount root as rw just in case
- added symlinks.tgz

Sun May 18 12:00:00 2003 Hugo Rabson 0.85
- added cciss.o to SCSI_MODS
- if format type is (e.g.) ext3,ext2 then use 1st entry
- re-enabled fsck
*
- if cciss in use then enable it
- added /dev/ataraid/
* to boot disk via ataraid.tgz (Luc S.)
- better ISO support
- allow for Debian & other Stiefkinder that use \'none\', not \'swap\'
as the mountpoint of the swap partition
- removed afio dependency
- re-worked install.sh and tarball not to use tgz\'s
- disabled 3 lines in ListAllPartitions() - erroneous
- add #!/bin/sh to start of insert-all-my-modules
- fixed obscure bug in install-additional-tools
- added MDK9.1-specific modules to CDROM_MODS
- moved vmlinuz and lib.tar.bz2 to mindi-kernel rpm/tarball

Wed Apr 9 12:00:00 2003 Hugo Rabson 0.84
- insmod ide-cd, cdrom, isofs, just in case
- tmpfs ramdisk at boot-time is now 40m (was 32m)
- iso mode now calls Interactive
- make SizeOfPartition() more Debian-friendly (Andree Leidenfrost)
- disabled code which would make Mindi call sfdisk instead of fdisk
if it looked as if Debian\'s fdisk would misbehave

Sun Mar 23 11:00:00 2003 Hugo Rabson 0.83
- if bad lilo, give more verbose error before quitting

Mon Feb 17 11:00:00 2003 Hugo Rabson 0.82
- better at finding isolinux.bin
- better at analyzing dependencies when running on broken distributions
- try harder to boot from CD, even if tape fails
- added ADDITIONAL_BOOT_PARAMS to be sent to kernel
- removed /lib/libuuid.
* from rootfs.tgz
- fixed vi
- mindi now uses gawk --traditional (making gawk behave in a functionally
identical way to awk) - PASS; great, so now Debian needs to fix its awk :)
- removed / from list of dirs accessed when trying to resolve deplist entry
- spinner bugfix; handle odd LABELs properly (Tom Mortell)
- added -e (don\'t eject) compatibility
- LVM-on-RAID patch (Brian Borgeson)

Mon Dec 16 11:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.81
- EXTRA_SPACE=16384
- updated ResolveSoftlinks() to work better with b0rkn Gentoo devfs /dev
- patched analyze-my-lvm (Benjamin Mampaey)
- detect built-in boot.b files in lilo
- cleaned up spec file a bit, more use of macros (Jesse Keating)
- return w/err, don\'t abort, if Matt Nelson\'s RH8 system is farked

Mon Dec 2 11:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.80
- new stable branch
- misc code clean-up
- save boot device\'s boot sector
- detect and beware Compaq diagnostic partitions
- better handling of devfs V non-devfs kernels and boot devs
- trimmed busybox 0.60.3 binary on boot disk
- mindi now resides in /usr/local/bin
- removed lilo from dependencies
- more Gentoo-friendly

Mon Nov 18 11:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.71
- if your kernel\'s builddate doesn\'t match any of the kernels in
your /boot directory then fudge the issue & find the closest
match (
*grumble
* Debian)
- scan tape & CD at start, to force inclusion of modules on boot device
- double EXTRA_SPACE if >7 disks
- slimmer, more lithesome logfile
- now accepts --findkernel
- line 1982 - dd count=24000 should be count=$ramdisksize (Andras Korn)
- better handling of non-Linux partitions on DevFS-enabled kernels
- misc clean-ups
- fixed Debian/ramdisksize/bloat problem (Johannes Franken)
- fixed 2.4.20/fdisk eccentricity (Alistair Stevens)
- updated kernel to 2.4.18-mdk6
- generate mountlist in dev-abetical order ;)
- fixed minor bug in .spec file
- better at finding /boot/boot.b if your distro breaks the de facto standard
- fixed minor bug in MakeMountlist
- fixed install.sh
- cleaned up deplist.txt
- added rudimentary -v / --version flag
- line 1180 or so --- duplicate mindi.iso entries --- fixed
- added /bin/[ - a softlink to /bin/sh
- ListAllPartitions() - sanity fix (KP)
- fixed .spec bug
- better feedback
- added Markus\'s RAID patch
- ListAllPartitions() - include /mnt/win
* (Hugo)

Sun Sep 8 12:00:00 2002 Hugo Rabson 0.70
- better logging by dependency-calculating code
- better handling of dependencies, specifically softlinks
- if called by mondo then use mondo\'s temp dir as our temp dir too
- changed gawk to $AWK in a few places, to allow for Debian
- added host
* config files to deplist
- added tftp, ifconfig to busybox
- added RPC support to uClibc
- cleaned up creation of Mondo-Mindi configuration file
- fixed bug in TryToFindKernelPath which stopped it from handling
multiple, same-version kernels gracefully
- cleaned up deplist.txt
- receive \'DIFFERENTIAL\' variable from Mondo
- better Debian compatibility, esp. w/detection of ver# (Hector Alvarez)
- better devfs support; call fgrep in places instead of grep (Andrew Korn)
- fixed analyze-my-lvm (Ralph Gruwe)
- moved 50K of stuff from rootfs.tgz to aux-tools.tgz
- added x11-tools.tgz option
- updated /dev/console and /dev/tty0 (Paul Stevens)
- cleaned up /mnt/groovy-stuff V /tmp/tmpfs code
- catch sigint, sighup, etc.
- fixed LILO-related message.txt mistake
- .spec file clean-up; automation; config file (Carl Wilhem Soderstrom)
- better devfs support (Andrew Korn)

Sun Jul 14 12:00:00 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


 
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