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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 04:08, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> > 0.9.1 bugfix ISO released here:
> > http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/
> >
> > Changelog avaliable here:
> > http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Source+Mage+GNU%2FLinux+v0.9.1
> >
> > File bugs here:
> > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Install
> >
> >
> > I hope for a lot of feedback so 1.0 can be a true landmark.
> >
> > Hamish
>
> Where should we discuss the ISO (which ML, I mean)?
>
> For the ChangeLog on the 0.9.1 ISO, why is there an NFS /server/ included?
> Especially statically? There's no reason (that I can see) that a fresh
> install would need to share files via NFS. A client, yes (I mount my
> /var/spool/sorcery via NFS), but not a server.
>
> Also (just say RTFM if it's written somewhere, with a link please ;)), do
> we have install instructions on the ISO? Including how to setup RAID (with
> mention of the sample raidtab on the new ISO)?
>
> -sandalle

NFS has been built as modules, not statically. 
If you have your /var/spool/sorcery mounted over nfs (as I know many do) then 
the default kernel will now connect to it after simply casting nfs-utils. 
Previous default kernels didn't have nfs enabled, so you had to first compile 
a kernel then compile nfs-utils to do this. I have simply made the default 
kernel more usable in a wider range of environments. 
The reason I have also built the nfs server module is the same, it is now 
possible to use the default kernel in a wider range of environments. 
If you don't want or need nfs, you don't need to load the modules, there is 
no 
portmapper installed nor is the nfs software installed, so it is not a 
security risk. If you don't want a working kernel straight after install, but 
bloated with features not necessary for your hardware/environment, then there 
is still the choice/option to compile a kernel during install.
The install instructions are the same for any standard install. I have not 
significantly changed the layout from previous releases.
The sample raidtab (/tmp/raidtab.bak) has some minimal instructions in it, as 
does also the release changelog. 
This is primarily a bugfix of previous releases, I have not added any 
significant features to the installer. Full support for software raid, via 
the install menu will be done for 1.0
Hamish
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