Re: [TCLUG:18156] Bootable Business Card 1.21

[Clay Fandre <cfandre@cfsmo.honeywell.com>]

Scott Dier wrote:
> 
> * Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com <Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com> [000525 11:25]:
> > http://doubt.sigfs.org/bbc121.iso
> 
> http://www.ringworld.org/~dieman/bbc121.iso
> 

Here is all I could find on what was updated from the 1.2 version.
Anyone know of anything else?


Documented errata fixed from the 1.2 release:


extract_compressed_fs now works

          The extract_compressed_fs binary on the 1.2.1 Bootable
Business 
          Card now works. 

          This is mostly of interest to people who are curious about how
the 
          Bootable Business Card works internally or would like to make
          modifications to the Bootable Business Card. 
          The issue with the copy released on version 1.2 was as
follows:
          extract_compressed_fs expected the first network ordered word
it 
          found at the block offset to be the size of the block,
unfortunately, 
          the block struct is reversed, the size comes after the data. 
The 
          patch does it the same way cloop.c does, 
          using offset[b+1] - offset[b].
          
PCMCIA script doesn't fork into background

        The "pcmcia" script no longer puts itself into the background
and just 
        continues  to run, this was confusing to some users. (The
script's 
        functionality was never affected.) You no longer need to hit
enter at 
        the end of the script.

        
trivial-net-setup now does prompt users about PCMCIA     
          
          Users with PCMCIA network interfaces needed to know that they
must 
          run "pcmcia start" in order to use those interfaces, (although
this 
          is documented in the Bootable Business Card README file). The 
          trivial-net-setup program now does mention PCMCIA and prompts
the 
          user to run "pcmcia start" to get networking to work on a
PCMCIA 
          equipped laptop.  Once PCMCIA card services have been started, 
          trivial-net-setup is capable of configuring a supported PCMCIA 
          Ethernet interface just like any other network interface.