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This file contains visible changes to the users.
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These are the new things for FAI:
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since fai-1.1beta3: please look at the changelog file
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The directory layout of FAI has changed since fai 1.0.1 !
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fai-1.1beta2: june 20, 2000
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- script faireboot for easy rebooting
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- package_config can now preload a file before installing a package
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(usefull for realplayer, fai,..)
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- install_packages called in different ways depending on FAI_FLAGS
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(verbose,debug) for better debugging
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- a "mini howto" on the creation of a FAI Boot Floppy doc/fai-boot-floppy.txt
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- S24 echoes NONIS if no nisdomain is defined
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- allways call the new lilo ${target}/sbin/lilo
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- apt-get upgrade before installation of packages
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- define_classes is called when FAI_ACTION is sysinfo
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- two configuration examples: faiserver and faiclient01
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- Class renamed: MAINTAINER -> DEBIAN_DEVEL
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- start-stop-daemon is now faked in a better way
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- fai.pl renamed to Fai.pm, new location
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- use make-fai-nfsroot if you do not want to mount /usr from a server (default)
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- some tests which nfs server you are using; only the user space
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nfs-server is supported until now
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- testsize (Fai.pm) tests if lower < size <= upper
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- blocksize of harddisk will now be determined in Fai.pm (not fixed to 512 bytes)
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fai-1.1beta1:
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- examples that are not used are now put into the subdirectory example
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- metapackages are used for software selection (package names task-*)
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- now using lprng instead of lpd (lpd always started daemon during installation)
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- class REBOOT removed. reboot can now be set via FAI_FLAGS (T172) or
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in class/S*.source
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- base2_X.tgz can now be retrieved via ftp and http using wget
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- NO second reboot is needed ! S99finish.sh is obsolete
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- using the tools from kernel-package, now it's easy to create and
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install a kernel and his modules for a host. /fai/files/boot and
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/fai/files/modules not used any more, because we have a Debian
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package for the kernel
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- FAI now has serveral actions. If you only want some hardware
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information, you can get it without installing anything. See bootp
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tag $T171 or $FAI_ACTION (thanks to Thomas Gebhardt for this idea)
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- a lot of cfengine actions are now unnecessarily, because there's a
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finer selection of software (eg. rstat-client, rstatd). Former these
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services must be disabled in inetd.conf
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- resolv.conf is used during installation
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- the full location of /usr is now defined in fai.conf
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- new options for setup_harddisk (-X -m)
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- totally new rewritten install_packages.pl
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- call lilo from $target; it's version must match with files in /boot
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- if the correct amount of memory is not detected, you can define it
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in $liloappend
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- a lot of software packages are gone, renamed, new or better one
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available so files in package_config also had changed (eg. now lprng
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instead of lpd)
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- timezone is now a variable, not fixed in cfengine
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- you can now load a different keytable (eg. german keyboard)
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FAI 1.0.1: january 19, 2000
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- setup_harddispk.pl now calculates partition sizes more exactly, it
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checks all filesystems before mounting them (setup_harddisk.pl)
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It also mounts filesystems read-only if they should be
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preserved. Ignore error messages (read-only filesystem) when
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extracting base2_1.tgz. This is a feature, not a bug.
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It can handle different output of old and new sfdisk executables.
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- the link name to the (tftp) image for booting from local disk is now
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specified with $TFTPLINK; previously it was always a link to the
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file clusterimage (rcS,class/S*.source)
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- if host if in class MBR, lilo will write the master boot record
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(mbr) otherwise, mbr will be left intact and only the boot sector of
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the root partition is written (scripts/BOOT)
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- class LAST is now always the last class (S99last.sh)
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- S99var.source now S91var.source; variable definition depending on
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hosts should be defined after S91* (eg. S99kueppers.sh)
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- start-stop-daemon is disabled during installation (rcS)
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- rcS is now a bash script, and trap also starts a bash (formerly sh
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script), the quit signal (ctrl-\) also calls trap
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- BOOTP tag T172 holds a space separated list of flags, that will be
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set to 1 inside rcS (verbose, debug are now used)
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- installkernel now supports Adaptec AIC7xxx based SCSI controllers
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- Thomas Renard has done some work on FAI for Red Hat RPM Systems
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http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-renardth/fai/
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- doc/links.html is a file, that contains all important links, so you
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can easily click and jump to these pages
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