[Clonezilla-release] The Next Stable Clonezilla Live - 1.2.8-42

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

Clonezilla live 1.2.8-42 is planned as the next stable release on May 
17, 2011.

This release of Clonezilla live (1.2.8-42) 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 2011/May/13).
* Linux kernel was updated to 2.6.38-5.
* Syslinux was updated to 4.04.
* Initrd was compressed with XZ, and this makes Clonezilla live iso/zip 
file smaller by 3 MB.
* The pre-run and post-run commands were moved to the login shell 
instead of init so now it can be interactive, .e.g. sshfs mounting with 
password input.
* The grub2 boot loader for EFI was added. This is a testing function 
for booting a Mac machine from an USB device with GPT partition.
* The "gPXE" in the boot menu is replaced by "iPXE".
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, if you manage the boot 
parameters by yourself, you have to put the extra boot parameter 
"config" or "live-config" to make live-config to work.
* //NOTE// From Clonezilla live 1.2.6-24, due to the change in 
Live-boot, the boot parameter to assign static IP address has been 
changed. The new 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

* Typos fixed.
* A workaround to avoid the sshfs "Read: connection reset by peer" or 
"remote host has disconnected" issues.

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Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan.
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