[Clonezilla-release] Stable Clonezilla Live (1.2.6-24) Released

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

Stable Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24 has been released.

This release of Clonezilla live includes major enhancements, changes and 
bug fixes.

MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS and CHANGES:

     * The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This 
release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2010/Sep/21)
     * New file system support, btrfs, was added in this release. It has 
been tested successfully with Ubuntu Maverick beta restoration (/boot is 
ext4, the rest of partitions are btrfs), and OpenSuSE 11.3 restoration 
(/boot is ext3, the rest of partitions are btrfs). //NOTE// btrfs is 
still in the beta status, therefore this support is in testing, too.
     * Russian language was added. Thanks to Anton Pryadko.
     * Program makeboot.sh was improved to allow running with full path.
     * Option "--force" was added for grub-install (grub2) when it's run 
with option "-g auto".
     * It has been improved about running grub reinstall. If failing to 
run grub2 from the restored OS, Clonezilla will next try to use the 
grub2 from Clonezilla live now.
     * The Linux kernel was updated to 2.6.32-23.
     * This release was created by live-build 2.0~a29-1, and new 
live-initramfs, i.e. live-boot 2.0.5-1.drbl1, and live-config was 
2.0.6-1.drbl1 are used. Because Live-boot and live-config are used in 
this release, therefore if you manage the boot paramters by yourself, 
you have to put the extra boot parameter "live-config" to make 
live-config to work.
     * Partclone was updated to 0.2.15.
     * gPXE was updated to 1.0.1.
     * The etherboot boot menu was removed since it's not maintained 
anymore, and we have gPXE now.
     * Package syslinux was updated to 4.02.
     * Usplash was removed in Clonezilla live 1.2.6-11 since it's not 
available in Debian Sid.
     * Due to the change from Live-boot 2.0.3, the boot parameter to 
assign static IP address has been changed. The format is:

 
ip=**[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] 
[,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]***::
           e.g.
           ip=10.0.0.1::10.0.0.254:255.255.255.0::eth0,:::::eth1:dhcp


BUG FIXES

     * The file system header will be cleaned only when the image of the 
partition exists, i.e. it will not be cleaned before testing existence.
     * The bug about failing to use partclone to do disk to disk clone 
was fixed. Thanks to Steve Poe for this bug report.

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