[Clonezilla-release] Stable Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-17 Released

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.5-17) includes major enhancements, 
changes and bug fixes.

MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES:
  * This release was created by live-helper 2.0~a11-1drbl1, and 
live-initramfs 1.215.1-1drbl-1 is used.
  * A version with pure AMD64 (X86-64) programs was created in this 
release. It can support large partition (e.g. 10 TB) imaging.
  * The Linux kernel was updated to 2.6.32-12.
  * Partclone was updated to 0.2.9. It has been reported that the speed 
of this version is much faster than the previous one.
  * Package memtest86+ was updated to 4.10.
  * Package syslinux was updated to 3.86.
  * Package pbzip2 was updated to 1.1.1, and it's the default program 
for running bzip2 compression and decompression in parallel.
  * Package gzrt was added.
  * Boot parameter "nomodeset" was added with vga=normal to avoid using 
framebuffer mode in safe graphic mode.


BUG FIXES
  * VGA failsafe mode was not working.
  * A harmless warning message when running grub2 installation after 
Ubuntu Lucid is restored was fixed
  * Suppress and avoid the error message when getting data from EDD.
  * A NFS locking issue found in Clonezilla live 1.2.5-15 was fixed.

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Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
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