FAI 2.6.6 released

[Travis Griggs]

On Jan 21, 2005, at 3:30, Thomas Lange wrote:

> The new year starts with a new FAI release. A new command (fai-mirror)
> was added, which can be used to create a partitial Debian mirror, if
> you can't create a complete mirror for your architecture with
> mkdebmirror. With fai-mirror(1) you will only download packages that
> are used in your classes in package_config. This command will also be
> used for creating parts of the fai CD.
>
>
> New in FAI 2.6.6
>
>   - new command fai-mirror(1) to create a partitial Debian mirror
>   - setup_harddisks: bug fix: error redefined mountpoint is wrongly
>     reported, allow space before keywords primary and logical
>   - install_packages: add option -f
>   - task_sysinfo calls hwinfo if available (very nice hardware info)
>   - 06hwdetect.source: SCSI detect code for 2.6 kernel
>   - new variable FAICLIENTS in make-fai-nfsroot.conf. Used by
>     fai-setup for exporting the nfsroot and the config space via NFS
>   - create a list of all packages in base.tgz (for fai CD)
>   - ftar: test if directory is / before removing files recursively
>   - enable shadow passwords for passwd and group in examples
>   - save files FAI_CLASSES, variables.sh and disk_var.sh to
>     /var/log/fai not to /etc/fai
>   - add supprt for booting from CD
>   - other bug fixes

Just to clarify here... am I correct in reading between the lines that 
the FAI-CD stuff (booting and installing from a CD rather than a remote 
NFS mount) is all now integrated? I believe that's what the above 
implies. And if so, that's very cool. Thank you.
--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
"It had better be a pretty good meeting, to be better than no meeting
at all" -- Boyd K Packer


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