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# 8. Document History

v0.8 9th November 2000 Changed from Rich Payne <rdp@alphalinux.org>

- Added section on SRM Device names

- Many spelling/grammer fixes.

v0.7.1 6th November 2000 Changes from Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@alphalinux.org>

- Cleaned up netbooting section. Avoid duplicate information.

- Added DHCP/BOOTP server configuration section.

- Added SRM netbooting section.

- Put the older bootpd configuration in it's own section and elaborated on it.

v0.7 10th July 2000 Changes from Rich Payne <rdp@alphalinux.org>

- Updated for RedHat 6.2

- Fixed aboot link for alphalinux.org and added CVS information.

- Added additional netboot information from Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@alphalinux.org>

v0.6.1 21 March 2000 Changes from Rich Payne <rdp@alphalinux.org>

- Made the installation hints a new chapter

- Added information on Netbooting

- Added to the new section on RedHat 6.1 and BSD disklabels

- Removed David Mosberger-Tang's name from the authors list

- Marked a few of the feature as being in 0.6 only

- Added info for SuSE 6.3 and RedHat 6.1

v0.6 3 March 2000 Changes and information from David Huggins-Daines <dhd@linuxcare.com>

- Moved the notes on MILO vs. SRM to an "About this document" section

- Added sections on switching to SRM, and basic SRM usage

- Added section on the new interactive use of aboot

- Updated the note on DOS partition tables to mention the Red Hat 6.1 installer's behavior.

- Normalized the markup, and codified the conventions used for user-entered commands.

- Corrected the notes on BSD disklabels (SRM does not read BSD disklabels, it's just that they don't conflict with the boot block).

v0.5.2 5 December 1999 Added comments and information from Stig Telfer (stig @ alpha-processor.com).

- Added chart on SRM to Linux name mappings

- Added RedHat 6.0 and SuSE 6.1 installation information

- Added Disk Partitioning Information

v0.5.1 (Not Released) 13 November 1999 Took the original 0.5 document and updated several parts:

- Update information on SRM booting from IDE devices

- Fixed URL to aboot source

- Update toc page to reflect MILO's future

- Included information on bootdef_dev and boot_dev to chapter 3

- Added this section

v0.5 17 August 1996 - Original Document by David Mosberger-Tang

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