File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 2.0
Notes: SPBLinux 2.0: Take your Linux together with your keys in your pocket. You can put SPBLinux 2 on a memory stick and boot directly from the memory stick (Sources? See homepage section manpages, subsection buildinfo if you want to compile SPBLinux; however many programs are just compiled with the standard sources. Looking for the scripts driving SPBLinux? Just run spblinux and use changebz2/changegz/changeramdisk command line tools to open the files of spblinux with midnight commander)
Changes: new with release SPB-Linux 2.0: usb standard installation now includes files to create a boot floppy disk (from spblinux, from linux or from windows); useful if you have a bootable usb storage medium and a computer which does not boot from usb the grub boot menu now contains entries to boot other media (no need to changes boot settings in the bios): from floppy disk images (using memdisk from syslinux 2.0 package); store your DOS bootdisk on usb storage and boot it from the menu (e.g. dos programs to flash the bios...) from floppy disk from cdrom (using smart boot manager); even with machines having a bios which does not allow to boot from cdrom. changed files: basic system: disk1.zip, disk2.zip, disk2b.zip; usbboot.zip known bugs: sometimes browser links has to be started twice to get a working mouse (quit the browser by typing q) USB 2.0: not stable with kernel 2.4.20 (but works with kernel 2.4.21pre7 which is not included in SPBLinux 2.0); with kernel parameter ... usb2=yes ... SPB-Linux loads the USB 2.0 kernel module). Useful with mplayer and videos on an external USB 2.0 harddisk. The USB 2.0 kernel code is rather new; with kernel 2.4.20 (=spblinux 2.0) the system freezes from time to time: use SPBLinux 2.1 in this case. new with release SPB-Linux 2rc5: booting from usb now uses bootloader grub and simpler installation totally new designed boot menu, which allows to open directly a page in the web like www.google.com a vncviewer connection a video on a dvd a video on a cd images on a flash memory card all easily configured by the files spbcfg0, spbcfg1, ... spbcfg9 (in folder /spblinux) zip, tar, and rpm files now properly integrated into mc: just type enter to view the contents of an archive changed or new files: addons: rpm.bz2, zipunzip.bz2 new: gammu to access nokia cellular phones (with irda) new: pilot-xfer to access palm devices (irda, usb, serial) directfb updated to version 0.9.17 and browser links updated to 2.1pre9 changed files: addons: directfb.bz2, browser.bz2. browser links comes now with SSL support ssh (openssh 3.5p1) and ssl (0.9.7) updated to current versions other little bugfixes and improvements changed files: basic system: disk1.zip, disk2.zip, disk2b.zip; addons: libs.bz2. new with release SPB-Linux 2rc4: "autoexec": automatically start your favorite program when booting SPB-Linux 2 e.g. to open spblinux with google set the SPB-Linux parameters: spbconf=....,startprog=links,startarg1=-g,startarg2=http://www.google.com,.... or use spbconf=...,cfgdev0=hda1 and create the file /spblinux/spbcfg0 on device hda1 in folder /spblinux: startprog=links startarg1=-g startarg2=http://www.google.com (it is recommended to use file spbcfg0 because the length of the boot commandline is limited) directfb updated to version 0.9.16 changed files: addons: directfb.bz2, browser.bz2. bug removal: libc6 was optimized for pentium 2 and is now optimized for pentium 1 ("invalid instruction" errors on pentium 1 machines) changed files: basic system: disk2.zip, disk2b.zip; addons: libs.bz2. new with release SPB-Linux 2rc3: cd/dvd drives, usb storage devices and the boot device are automatically entered into /etc/fstab (and the corresponding mountpoints are created) type mount /sda1 (or sdb1, sdc1 ...) to mount a flashrom device to folder /sda1 (or sdb1, sdc1 ...) type mount /cdrom or mount cdrecorder or mount /dvd to mount these devices type mount /boot to mount the device from which SPB-Linux was booted; now you can load an additional addon by typing loadaddon /boot/spblinux/myaddonfolder/myaddon.bz2 useful if an addon was not automatically loaded during the boot process support for compaq smart raid controller to mount this device type modprobe cpqarray; the devices are called /dev/ida/c0d0p1 ...; details in /doc/cpqarray.txt; to boot spblinux from the first partition on this device use the kernel parameters: spbconf=.... root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1 bootd=ida bootd2=/c0d0p1
