FAI 2.1 released

[Thomas Lange]

Before the weekend starts, I going to release the next FAI release.

All user visible news are now in the file NEWS. The file changelog is
for developers only. I like to mention three main news of this release.

1. hooks
   Using hooks (like in emacs) you can add your own functions into the
   installation process. I had this idea after the Debian One
   conference in Bordeaux, where some people told me, that they need
   some special functions during installation. Now FAI is very
   flexible for this task. You only have to read the section about
   hooks and write your own hooks.

(http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ch-config.html#s-hooks

2. woody support
   FAI 2.1 still uses the default configuration for installing
   potato. But I tested it with woody, and it works fine. A lot of
   package names have changed, so there's still some work to update
   the list. 

3. grub support
   Also implemented but not the default boot loader yet.


The package is available at the FAI homepage
	http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
and also on the Debian mirrors in a few hours/days.
Here are the complete NEWS:

New in FAI 2.1
    - NEWS file added (you found it already ;-), which contains the
      user visible changes; changelog file is for developers
    - woody support
    - define $FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP for using debootstrap
    - you can add your own functions using hooks (read the manual)
    - /fai/fai_config not used anymore, replaced by a hook
    - setup_harddisk does not complain when root partition is not in
      the first 8GB, do not complain if not a primary partition
    - no more problems when using other locales
    - support for diskless clients
    - grub support, new class LILO and GRUB
    - new flag createvt; add this to FAI_FLAGS to get two additional
      terminals and ctrl-c will interrupt the installation
      process. Otherwise ctrl-c will reboot and no terminals are
      available. In the past, this function was enabled by default.
      Add createvt to FAI_FLAGS to get the old behavior.
    - before any classes are defined using the scripts in /fai/class,
      the classes DEFAULT, $HOSTNAME and LAST are defined
    - new utility chkdebnames can check package names for a certain
      distribution

-- 
 Thomas
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            Thomas Lange
Institut fuer Informatik        mailto:lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
   Universitaet zu Koeln
            Pohligstr. 1        Telefon: +49 221 470 5303
             50969 Koeln        Fax    : +49 221 470 5317

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