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DRBL 1.8.0-15 (stable) released

We have not released a stable version in a long time -- sorry to make you wait so long.
This version has some new features and some bugs fixed, and we hope it will work very well for you.

Here are the release notes. Enjoy.
- New mechanism: A mechanism to lease IP addresses to PXE, Etherboot or DRBL clients only. This applies only when using the range statement in dhcpd.conf, i.e. not when providing static IP address es to clients. This newly introduced feature uses the vendor-class-identifier mechanism and does not affect the host statement. By default this mechanism is disabled -- to enable it, uncomment the 'allow members of "DRBL-Client' line in your dhcpd.conf file.
- Simplified selection in dcs, ocs and all the dialog menus: i.e. for single choices, just select and press enter (no longer necessary to press the space key to mark the selection.)
- Improved netinstall: netinstall packages are removed from repository, since now drbl-netinstall will download those images from mirror site directly.
- Better language specification: drbl-related commands will no longer ask about language index by default; now, they will use the environment variable "LANG". If you still want to choose the language, use something like "/opt/drbl/sbin/dcs -l ask".
- Better shutdown behavior: new setting of HALT_REBOOT_OPT="" instead of HALT_REBOOT_OPT="-f -n" in drbl-ocs.conf prevents wake-on-LAN (WOL) failure when shutdown is not a normal soft-shutdown. Thanks to Dave Haakenhout for reporting this bug. If you do not care about WOL and you are impatient, you can set HALT_REBOOT_OPT as "-f -n " in drbl-ocs.conf.
- New upstream syslinux 3.51.
- Better nfs: added mechanism to use nosharecache option for nfs in init.drbl. This will fix the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251655.
- Ready for Fedora 8 test2.
- Ready for Ubuntu 7.10 beta.
- Bug fixed: in Fedora 7, service ConsoleKit is necessary for client.
- Some other bugs fixed.

- About Clonezilla:
- From 2.2.1-5, the cciss device (including Compaq's SMART Array Controllers) is supported.
- mkswap-uuid has been removed from clonezilla, and is now a standalone package. Now clonezilla is written by script language only.
- Some sample scripts are in /opt/drbl/samples/, which are used with -o0. For example, create-2P-pt-sf. You can put it in /opt/drbl/share/ocs/prerun/ and use it with -o0 -k -r to auto create 2 partitions as follows: 1st partition is total disk size - 3 GB, the 2nd partition is swap with 3 GB.

Posted by Steven Shiau 2007-09-21

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