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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:11:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Oehser <tom@Toms.NET>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: tomsrtbt-1.7.218


	tomsrtbt-1.7.218.tar.gz               # to install from Linux
	tomsrtbt-1.7.218.dos.zip              # to install from DOS/W9x
	tomsrtbt-1.7.218.ElTorito.288.img.bz2 # to install to bootable CD

Greetings,

I have released a minor update to tomsrtbt, changes since 1.7.185 include:

- add ext2fs sparse superblock and filetype support
- add DAC960 Mylex RAID controller support
- remove dmsdos and dutil (Stacker and DoubleSpace) support
- upgrade pax/tar/cpio to read SVR4 cpio formats
- upgrade ntfs filesystem version
- add md5 sum capability to tomshexd program
- fix undeb-- and unrpm-- minimal package extraction
- static fdformat and fdflush in install archive
- upgrade ext2fs tools to 1.19
- pax/tar/cpio socket extraction fix and vfat segfault fix
- upgrade kernel to 2.0.39-final
- lie about kernel version
  (Some explanation about this one:  RedHat 7.0 and Fisher have something
   in the libc to prevent chrooting from an old kernel.  There is one
   command that is used this way from tomsrtbt:  "chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo",
   in order for the lilo executable and boot.b version to match.  Tomsrtbt
   now reports kernel version 102.0.39.  It seems to work just fine...)

I have not done anything really interesting, or revolutionary; but it is
definitely a recommended upgrade.  Get it from: http://www.toms.net/rb/.

-Tom Oehser