Finnix 86.2 release notes

Vitals

• Linux 2.6.15
• Debian testing (2006-01-06)
• Unionfs 1.1.1
• Squashfs 2.2r2
• Packages: x86 (343 packages), PowerPC (336 packages)
• Build: 1504 (x86), 60 (PowerPC)

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Filename	Arch	Size	Released
finnix-86.2.iso	x86	92.0MiB	2006-01-08
finnix-ppc-86.2.iso	PowerPC	113MiB	2006-01-08

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Known Issues

• finnix-hwsubmit has a typo that prevents the output of "lspci -vvn" being sent with the report. An update has been released online. Before using finnix-hwsubmit, please type "apt-get update", then "apt-get install finnix-scripts". This update will be included with the next released version of Finnix.

Changes

86.1 -> 86.2

• apt-get -u dist-upgrade
• Fixed finnix-on-finnix loss of networking after a screen detach
• Fixed need for "bootscsi" flag while booting off a USB thumb drive
• Added "service" script
• Added debug breakpoint immediately before shutdown procedure
• Added "umldebug" alias to "debug" in scripts
• Added UML/Xen auto-detection; "uml"/"xen" params no longer needed
• Added /proc/meminfo and lspci to finnix-hwsubmit
• Added: squashfs-tools, uml-utilities, evms, evms-cli, libevms-2.5, mc, hwdata-finnix, zsplit, scrub, finnix-release
• Removed: libstdc++5, gcc-3.3-base, libdb4.1, libroken16-kerberos4kth, libdb3, libdbi-perl, libapt-pkg-perl, libconfig-inifiles-perl, libplrpc-perl, python2.4, libnet-daemon-perl, python2.4-minimal, hwdata-knoppix
• Upgraded Linux kernel to 2.6.15
• Changed "finnix" utility to be a general-purpose curses program
• Changed finnix-hwsubmit to curses-based program
• Changed "su -" inittab entries to wrapper
• Changed boot banner
• Recompiled bonnie++ to use libstdc++6 instead of libstdc++5 ([1])
• Expanded UML functionality via the "finnix" utility
• "debug" will not disable printing kernel messages during initrd/autoconfig
• Merged autoconfig scripts for UML and non-UML setups
• Cleaned up /usr/share/doc-base
• Removed local apt package cache from final build (saves about 5MB compressed)
• Removed /etc/init.d/finnix-autoconfig-strace, replaced with runtime "strace" flag
• Updated hwdata with data from FC4
• Improved USB booting reliability (USB CDROM drives and thumb drives)
• Changed "bootusb2" to "nobootusb2" (will load EHCI drivers by default if "bootusb" is specified)
• If "bootusb" is specified, HID (USB keyboard) drivers will be loaded on x86
• Due to USB booting "settle times", if a Finnix image is not found, Finnix will try 3 more times over the course of 30 seconds. If nothing is still found, the user will be given a chance to manually mount a Finnix image.
• Added extra /dev entries to initrd and main filesystem
• Added "finnixfile" and "root" boot parameters
• Finnix can now be installed to a hard drive