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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: LILO: Version alpha.5
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.044900.7537@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Sep4.003915.18305@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:49:00 GMT
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- Version ALPHA.5 of LILO can be found on sunsite.unc.edu as
- /pub/Linux/Incoming/lilo.5.tar.Z
- The documentation is also available as a PostScript file, named
- lilo.5.ps.Z
-
- It works with the 0.96c-pl1 kernel or anything newer. The
- compatibility problem of lilo.4 with 0.97-pl2 kernels has been
- fixed.
-
- Because the binary release of lilo.4 was practically useless and
- because there are currently several libraries in use (and I don't
- want to link it statically), I'm distributing lilo.5 again as a
- source-only release.
-
- The probably most important feature of lilo.5 is the revised and
- extended documentation. It now also covers the basics about booting
- and partitions and is written in LaTeX. You need LaTeX and Transfig
- (and dvi2whatever) to print it. I've also uploaded a PostScript
- file for those who don't have access to TeX. (Maybe somebody should
- also provide a HP DJ version ?)
-
- The README (formatted ASCII) has been trimmed and only covers the
- most important topics.
-
- The beginning of the CHANGES file is at the end of this posting.
-
- - Werner
-
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-
- Changes from version 4 to 5
- ---------------------------
-
- Map installer
- -------------
-
- - added automatic boot sector backup.
- - fixed variable block size detection. (Didn't work with the 0.97-pl2
- kernel.)
- - added the chroot (-r) option.
- - made the partition table part of a foreign OS boot descriptor
- optional.
-
- Documentation and installation
- ------------------------------
-
- - most of README has moved into doc.tex (LaTeX)
- - added a utility to activate a partition.
- - make install now reminds the user to update the map.
- - dd is now used in a more efficient way in the Makefile.
- (Fewer subshells, etc.)
- --
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