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