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Yep, after 2 power failures, weeks of anticipation, and much hair pulling on my part (good thing though, I need a haircut anyways), the full set of stages is finally built and uploaded. You can find them on my devspace in the usual place.

These haven’t undergone much in the way of testing… so it would be greatly appreciated if some brave souls could give these a try and report back on how they go. All going well, we should be able to get these pushed out to mirrors by the end of the month.

I’ll also start knocking up some new netboot images shortly. The new images will differ from the old ones, in that you will no longer have to download and extract CoLo into /nfsroot. I’m planning to produce images which can just be untarred directly into /nfsroot, and contain all the necessary files for boot. It’d also be nice to rid ourselves with the past time of mucking with the shell. All going well here, I’ll be re-writing that section of the handbook, and things should become significantly more simpler.

But we’ll see — for now I’m breathing a sigh of relief, but soon I’ll be back into the slog that is end-of-semester exams, so I don’t have long just now. Likely, this will be a summer holiday project. (Yes, for those of you playing along in the Northern Hemisphere…temperatures are warming up down here in Brisbane.)

As always, I’ll keep you posted on further notices, and I’m usually online if people wish to contact me.
Regards,
Stuart Longland

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