Before the weekend starts, I going to release the next FAI release. All user visible news are now in the file NEWS. The file changelog is for developers only. I like to mention three main news of this release.
1. hooks Using hooks (like in emacs) you can add your own functions into the installation process. I had this idea after the Debian One conference in Bordeaux, where some people told me, that they need some special functions during installation. Now FAI is very flexible for this task. You only have to read the section about hooks and write your own hooks. (http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/ch-config.html#s-hooks 2. woody support FAI 2.1 still uses the default configuration for installing potato. But I tested it with woody, and it works fine. A lot of package names have changed, so there's still some work to update the list. 3. grub support Also implemented but not the default boot loader yet. The package is available at the FAI homepage http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ and also on the Debian mirrors in a few hours/days. Here are the complete NEWS: New in FAI 2.1 - NEWS file added (you found it already ;-), which contains the user visible changes; changelog file is for developers - woody support - define $FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP for using debootstrap - you can add your own functions using hooks (read the manual) - /fai/fai_config not used anymore, replaced by a hook - setup_harddisk does not complain when root partition is not in the first 8GB, do not complain if not a primary partition - no more problems when using other locales - support for diskless clients - grub support, new class LILO and GRUB - new flag createvt; add this to FAI_FLAGS to get two additional terminals and ctrl-c will interrupt the installation process. Otherwise ctrl-c will reboot and no terminals are available. In the past, this function was enabled by default. Add createvt to FAI_FLAGS to get the old behavior. - before any classes are defined using the scripts in /fai/class, the classes DEFAULT, $HOSTNAME and LAST are defined - new utility chkdebnames can check package names for a certain distribution -- Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatik mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1 Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 Koeln Fax : +49 221 470 5317 1024D/AB9B66FD AEA6 A8C1 BD8E 67C4 8EF6 8BCA DC13 E54E AB9B 66FD ----------------------------------------------------------------------
