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From:  stock@stokkie.net
To:  lwn@lwn.net
Subject:  CrashRecoveryKit v2.4.21-mdk91 (Mandrake 9.1 i586) released
Date:  Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:54:31 +0200 (CEST)


CrashRecoveryKit v2.4.21-mdk91 based on Mandrake 9.1 i586 was released on 
23 september 2003.

* 23 september 2003, Release of CRK v.2.4.21-mdk91. crash2421-mdk91.iso is
     based upon the Mandrake 9.1 i586 Linux distribution. The ram filesystem 
     for the mdk91 edition is 16 Mb and now needs at least 24Mb ram to boot.
     In addition the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) administration tools are 
     added.

* 15 september 2003, An enhanced version CRK v.2.4.21-rpmrescue is released 
     which has a special RPM rescue und recovery util added. Sofar the RedHat 
     6.x and RedHat 7.x series have had a static binary for /bin/rpm. RedHat 9 
     however has a dynamic shared elf binary for /bin/rpm. This has caused a 
     tremendous misgrief amongst users. I created a script install-rpmrescue 
     which installs symbolic links so that redhat's rpm can still be run with 
     the option --root=/mnt if e.g. the root filesystem is mounted on /mnt.

* 21 july 2003, To be able to resize your NTFS partition on your desktop
     PC or laptop i created a new iso called crash2421-ntfs.iso which is
     also based on RedHat 9. kernel 2.4.21 has been patched to include NTFS 
     driver v2.1.4a from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/.
     ntfsprogs-1.7.1-1 has also been added. These ntfs programs contain
     the tool ntfsresize which performs the Non-destructive Resizing of an 
     NTFS Volume. I have tested ntfsresize a couple of times and sofar
     it just has worked ok. a small HOWTO.ntfs has been added.

homepage :
http://crashrecovery.org/

download is on : 
ftp://ftp.crashrecovery.org/pub/linux/CrashRecoveryKit/iso/2.4.21/
or http://crashrecovery.org/download.html

The HOWTO's are on :
http://crashrecovery.org/CrashRecoveryKit/iso/2.4.21/HOWTO-2421.iso
http://crashrecovery.org/CrashRecoveryKit/iso/2.4.21/HOWTO.resize2fs.html
http://crashrecovery.org/CrashRecoveryKit/iso/2.4.21/HOWTO.ntfs.html

Robert
-- 
Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org  stock@stokkie.net


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