From: gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: netboot 0.4 - Network boot for Linux and DOS, new version
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 02:44:26 GMT
Organization: gkminix, Hannover, Germany
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <pgpmoose.199701050444.28333@liw.clinet.fi>
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Hello,

hereby I announce the new version 0.4 of my netboot package. This
version fixes a serious bug in the bootrom causing sporadic system
crashes. I therefore strongly recommend to upgrade to this new ver-
sion. It is currently in sunsite's Linux-Incoming directory and
should soon move to

/pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot/netboot-0.4.tar.gz

Besides bug fixes here is a short list of new features in this
version:

  - Menu support to allow loading different boot image files and
    operating systems without reconfiguration. Using the menu you
    can also let the user boot from any harddisk partition in the
    local client system. And using ANSI sequences these menus can
    also look nice.

  - FlashCard: it's a PC ISA card containing a flash EPROM which
    makes it easy to upgrade your client to a new bootrom version.
    No EPROM eraser and programmer needed anymore. However, there
    is just a schematic and the programming software available yet.

Unfortunately my bug fix version 0.3.1 didn't make it to sunsite
correctly, so if you experienced problems with the MS-DOS loader
you should also consider to upgrade to this new version.

Happy new year to everybody.

gero.

- -- 
The biggest growth industry in UNIX is promoting standards.
  - Rikki Kirzner, Dataquest.
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Gero Kuhlmann, Hannover     0511/6497525 (Voice)        gero@gkminix.han.de

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