New FAI release 2.5

[Thomas Lange]

The new FAI release 2.5 is now available !

This is the hottest release, because it's currently 98F or 37C in
cologne and even hotter in my office. It's also the first release,
which contains the code for FAI for Solaris. We have successfully
installed Solaris 5.9 on our Sparc machines with FAI.

There's now a colletion of filled out questionnaires on the web page,
which shows experiences if users with FAI.

The new package is available at the FAI homepage

        http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

and also on the Debian mirrors. Many thanks to all who were involved
into the process of improving FAI. Please send any comment, bug
report and enhancements to fai at informatik.uni-koeln.de. 

So folks, that's all for now. I'm waiting for some cooler days to come.

New in FAI 2.5

    - a new section in the manual which describes a simple
      installation example. Read the chapter 'For the impatient user'
    - old templates now split into simple and advanced examples. They are
      located in /usr/share/doc/examples/{simple,advanced}
    - added script fai-chboot which manages the network boot
      configuration files for PXE boot
    - the installation time is printed in seconds
    - menu entries for grub now works also if /boot is a separate
      partition
    - number of packages installed at a time can be limited (use
      $MAXPACKAGES)
    - log files can be saved using FTP protocol
    - the files in /fai/class that are list of classes can contain
      comment lines. All lines starting with a hash are ignored
    - syslogd now works during installation
    - add an grub entry for memtest86 if installed
    - do not fsck ext3 partitions
    - add -M option to fcopy
    - make-fai-nfsroot: new option -f; print error message if it fails
    - a new example configuration for a demo host using GNOME, DHCP
    - added XFS support to setup_harddisks
    - files class/*.mod and modules.log removed, use 11modules.source
      instead
    - packages for xfree server now in file/class XFREE
    - added SunOS support; you can install Solaris using FAI
    - bug fixes as always

-- 
regards Thomas