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Ärende: [VOICENWS] SW: bootAble 6.0 released
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From: Hayo Baan <hayo.baanDESPAM@DESPAMxs4all.nl>

Somewhat more than a month after the last major release, yet another major 
release :-)
This time the major change is the addition of GENMAC support as well as the 
ability to specify ZIP and WPI archives as a source for files.

As always you can download bootAble from the website. 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan/bootAble/index.html

bootAble is an OS/2/eCS script to create a maintenance partition or a 
bootable CD/DVD. This partition or CD/DVD supports enough facilities to 
fully manage and recover your system.

The full changelog is included below.
v6.0 (29/02/2008)

A big thanks to Doug Bissett for his quick testing, input, and feedback!
This version of bootAble has removed a few configuration files, please read 
the notes below to see if you need to adapt the way you are currently using 
bootAble. To remove the old files altogether, run the command 
bootAble.cleanupInstall.cmd. For the WPI distribution of bootAble, this is 
done automatically.

     * Important: The TAR version that is included with eCS 2.0 RC4 does 
not work with bootAble, make sure you are using the correct version! See 
also above, under Known Issues/Limitations;
     * Added support for version 2.1 of the GENMAC drivers (GENMACSOURCE, 
GENMACDESTINATION, GENMACDRIVER, thanks Doug Bissett);
       Note: This only works for a GENMAC driven card that is currently 
installed and used on your system. You can not create a GENMAC setup for 
another system/network card! See also above, under Known Issues/Limitations.
     * Added support for the XWLAN wireless lan utility (XWLAN, XWLANXWP, 
XWLANSRCZIP, XWLANDESTINATION, thank you Doug Bissett);
     * The automatic network card driver determination method, now ignores 
duplicate entries of the same network driver;
     * Added support for booting off a JFS maintenance volume 
(FORMATMAINTENANCEJFS, thank you Doug Bissett);
       Note: Only works if you have eCS 2.0 and if your system already 
boots off a JFS volume!
     * You can now tell bootAble to retrieve files from a ZIP or WPI 
archive (EXTRAZIPWPIS, EXTRAZIPWPIDIRECTORY.n, EXTRAZIPWPIFILE.n, 
EXTRAZIPWPIOPTIONS.n, EXTRAZIPWPIDESTINATION.n, EXTRAZIPWPIADDTOPATHS.n);
     * The Mozilla application configuration files have been completely 
reworked and should now (finally?) work on most systems (see alse above, 
under Known Issues/Limitations);
       Note: you will probably have to change your bootAble.myCfg and/or 
calling scripts to accommodate the changes.
           o Added configuration files for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey 
(bootAble.thunderbird, bootAble.seamonkey);
           o The Mozilla applications now take their files from the 
distribution archives (APPSRCZIPWPI_FIREFOX, APPSRCZIPWPI_MOZILLA, 
APPSRCZIPWPI_SEAMONKEY, APPSRCZIPWPI_THUNDERBIRD);
           o An empty profile is now provided for each of the Mozilla 
application. These profiles contain some important pre-sets and will 
prevent some of the crashes the applications suffered from (e.g., default 
home page, cache sizes, etc.). You can of course specify your own profile, 
or none at all, as well (APPSRCZIPWPI_FIREFOXPROFILE, 
APPSRCZIPWPI_MOZILLAPROFILE, APPSRCZIPWPI_SEAMONKEYPROFILE, 
APPSRCZIPWPI_THUNDERBIRDPROFILE);
           o You now set the profile base directory with MOZILLA_HOME, this 
setting is shared between all Mozilla applications;.
           o Peter Weilbacher's build are now supported as well (thanks, 
Christian Hennecke and Doug Bissett);
     * You can now define the XWorkplace widgets to be used more easlily by 
specifying your own widgets using WPSXWPXCENTERWIDGETS in bootAble.myCfg;
       Note: make sure you enter everything exactly as XWorkplace expects 
it, or else XCenter will fail to start!
     * Integrated the extra command-line applications, XWorkplace and the 
EMX and GCC Runtimes into bootAble you now enable these packages with a 
single setting (OS2EXTRA, WPSXWP, EMXRT, GCCRT);
       Note: you may need to change your bootAble.myCfg and/or calling 
scripts to accommodate this change as bootAble.extra, bootAble.xwp, 
bootAble.xwpRC and, bootAble.emxrt do not exist anymore and as there is now 
an integrated way to enable these packages.
     * Reworked bootAble.dfsee to get the source files from a distribution 
file (either the OS2/eCS only, WPI, or full distribution), also removed 
bootAble.dfseeRC as this file is no longer required.
       Note: you may need to change your bootAble.myCfg and/or calling 
scripts to accommodate this change.
     * You can now specify whether or not you want cachef32.exe loaded when 
enabling FAT32 (FAT32CACHEF);
     * You can now specify inclusion of the regedit2 WPS program 
(WPSREGEDIT2, WPSREGEDIT2DESTINATION);
     * The XCenter setup now checks to see whether or not the required dlls 
are present for the widgets, if the required dll does not exists, the 
widget is not installed;
     * XCenter setup now enables the LSWitcher widget instead of the 
standard Window List widget if it is found on the system;
     * When using the US103 keyboard, the US unicode keyboard definition is 
used if the US103 one could not be found;
     * Added the ability to add DLLBASING=OFF to the config.sys 
(DLLBASINGLINE);
     * Added support for the APM hibernation compatibility settings 
ENH_SUSPEND and SNAP_APM_REPAINT (APM_ENH_SUSPEND, APM_SNAP_APM_REPAINT);
     * You can now comment-out files in an /@ file-list, simply put a 
semicolon in front of the line you don't want to have included;
     * If bootAble can not find a configuration file or /@ list file, one 
is now asked whether or not bootAble should abort or ignore the error and 
continue;
     * Updated SNAP SE support to allow for the latest eCS SNAP SE version 
(snapse-ecs-3.1.8.zip, thank you Doug Bissett);
     * SNAP SE user ini settings are now properly located in the 
bootAble.Urc file instead of being hard coded in the bootAble script;
     * Added bootAble.f, configuration file for the F file manager 
(contributed by Christian Hennecke);
     * Updated bootAble.dragtext to support drag text versions 3.8, 3.9, 
and up(?) (thanks, Doug Bissett);
     * Updated ConfigMaker.cmd to the latest version (contributed by Doug 
Bissett);
     * Set TCPIPDHCPTIMEOUT to 0 by default. This prevents unnecessary 
delays at startup, especially if you're using a wireless LAN card, and 
seems to be the new default anyway;
     * Removed MEMDISKDASDFALLBACK setting as the memdisk.i13 file does not 
exist anymore (thank you Doug Bissett for pointing this out).



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