o Implement the 2.0.5->2.1 upgrade procedure (gah).
o Bring in Coranth's support for configuration of anon ftp and Samba
plus some changes of my own.
o More attempts to actually write the documentation in english.
o Update docs to contain more 2.1-centric information.
I'm really, truly using it). Allow distribution fetch to get .info
files from the root.flp OR the distribution in question, allowing us
to add flexibility to the scheme. At some point, perhaps soon, the
cached copy should probably go away entirely!
Merge today's work.
Now support an attributes file loaded at startup (true front-loaded install).
Add fuller debugging support to all device I/O routines.
Lots-o-bug fixes.
Remove the ATAPI kernel hack.
Remove the now-unnecessary work-around for booting root off a slice; it
appears to work just fine now and will confuse a lot fewer folks.
methods. This should make the process rather more robust in the face
of entropy.
o Let tape cpio extract guess type of tape format.
o Hide cursor better in options screen.
Don't gratuitously shutdown network after NFS or FTP install.
Centralize release version string to one location included by everyone.
Bring in new options screen.
This looks like it was developed offline, and is being spammed over the
top of the existing. "That's fine by me! I dont really care how you do
it, just get it in there..." said Jordan in a conversation a short while
ago...
editor" here and in the docs. People have come to understand "FDISK"
as a more generic term and have been complaining that they didn't
equate the "master" partition editor with the old fdisk stage and were
confused.
on me:
1. Mark Murray's eBones patches.
2. Joerg's German docs + fixes.
3. Various sysinstall bug fixes from me + Mark's eBones menu changes.
4. Steven G. Kargl's doc fixes.
Submitted by: markm, joerg, jkh, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
speak english. In this doc I say that "2.0.5 fills a much needed
gap between 2.0R and 2.1." No wonder the translators were confused!
I'm trying to say that we _wanted_ a gap between 2.0.5 and 2.1? That
such gaps are much needed? Wurgh! Not what I was trying to say at
all! It should have (and now does) read: "2.0.5 fills a critical
gap between 2.0R and 2.1." Critical gap, not much needed. :-)
Translators: You may wish to adjust your own translations as
well if you tried to translate my original botch! Send me diffs
as soon as you can. Thanks!
Submitted by: me
