From: "Tom Kerremans" <harakiri@pandora.be> To: <lwn@lwn.net> Subject: Trinity Rescue Kit v0.4 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:45:04 +0100 Hi fellas, Since I got quite some response to my bootable rescue CD, it encouraged me to do some further development on it and bring out a new version. So here it is, version 0.4 of Trinity Rescue Kit. It turned out that a lot of SCSI systems have problems booting. I haven't been able to solve that yet, since I don 't have all the hardware to test it on. That 's why I wrote a development HOWTO, or should I say "the making of", so people might be able to help. Here are the changes: -kernel 2.4.17 -debugged startup scripts -lots of error messages minimized -volume name changed to TRK -lilo splash screen (bootmessage PCX with Trinity logo :p) -clean up initrd floppy (there is actually some space left now!) -bigger ramdisk (18Mb, most systems have enough ram left) -Reiserfs with more internal checking -added keyboard support for all countries. The most common have small scripts (e.g. for German, just type "de") -put f-prot in path (/usr/sbin/f-prot) -virusscan.sh: changed virusscan updater from ftp.f-prot.com to ftp.frisk.is, which has better response time and is faster. -virusscan.sh: fetch both SIGN.DEF and SIGN2.DEF for f-prot (takes a bit longer to download, but as I said, it comes from a faster server now) -virusscan.sh: only scan local harddiscs (hd* and sd*) for viruses, no need to do f.i. /bin -development howto written (rough version) Known bugs: -problems on exotic SCSI configurations (sometimes even with ordinary Adaptec 2940 adapters, reference to Han Holl). Stops booting after message "VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)." It seems init doesn 't start somehow -still too much error messages when loading network modules or mounting filesystems with my scripts(which are otherwise insignificant). -not all disc controllers are supported due to size limitations -PCMCIA: forgot to include cardmgr for laptops, something I will definitely do for next version -scripts are non-interactive and have no options -development howto kind of messy Please send questions or even better, solutions to trk@telenet.be For a full list of features, how to use it and downloading instructions, see http://harakiri.dyndns.org:2080/trk-howto.htm KR Tom Kerremans