=============================================================================== FlashWizard PRO History - coded by MusicBob =============================================================================== Release 7o2o BETA 3 01/10/2005 - THIS IS A PUBLIC BETA Every comment or bug report is highly appreciated, best for me if posted on the official support forum, where I daily hang around :-) http://www.satnews.it/vbforum/forumdisplay.php?f=28 Thanks to all contributed to grow-up this program. This is basically a bug-fixes release, built on the basis of users reports. Thanks. - Fixed mount of hard disk when the image is started on hard disk too. However, this was not a bug in FlashWizard, but it's probably busybox's mount command bug. Now recording works on hdd installed images too ;-) - Fixed boot menu install bug. - Fixed syncing trouble between FTP and Telnet clients included in FlashWizard, which sometimes resulted in lost files during install on slow devices. That's all for the moment, next release will include flash backup. Note for translators: Thanks a lot to all! It's really amazing for me to find out that FW is almost everywhere worldwide used!! Please note: This beta_3 release share the same locale file of previous betas, so don't waste your time on a new translation yet, previous ones fits well for the moment. :-) =============================================================================== Release 7o2o BETA 2 30/09/2005 - THIS IS A PUBLIC BETA Every comment or bug report is highly appreciated, best for me if posted on the official support forum, where I daily hang around :-) http://www.satnews.it/vbforum/forumdisplay.php?f=28 Warning, please read: -> PLEASE UNINSTALL Beta_1 from your flash image before installing present release. -> To uninstall, you must use FW beta_1 itself, NOT this beta_2 release. Thanks. :-) What is supported? ================== - DM7020: To make it clear: :-) * On Flash: you can use *any* true OpenEmbedded .nfi image (MUST have an OpenEmbedded image in flash, no old fashioned 7000-like images are supported in flash). * On Multiboot (USB/HDD/CF/NFS) you can install; 1) all known .NFI images, both OpenEmbedded and Tuxbox-CVS (yes, old 7000's style too, like Neutrino); 2) all known .IMG images, built for DM7000 from 1.074 to 1.09 (!!); 3) .FWZ backups of any DM7000 images 4) .FWZ backups of DM7020 images, both OpenEmbedded and Tuxbox-CVS old fashioned. - DM7000/5620/500: All is still supported: you can install and run every image/backup from 1.074 to 1.09 both in flash and multiboot on USB/CF/HDD/NFS (only on models that support these devices). What is new? ============ - DM7020: Totally rewritten image startup logic Fixed network startup, Telnet server is now always working for multiboot images. Warning: PLEASE UNINSTALL Beta_1 from your flash image before installing present release. - DM7020: Get rid of GO file, both for .NFI and .IMG images and backups. The GO file will no more be present on images installed on DM7020. Warning: this means that you can't swap anymore an usb stick or CF card from DM7000 to DM7020 and vice-versa to use the same installed images. Please make a backup and then restore it on the target machine to be full compatible. Swapping Usb Sticks and CF cards between dreamboxes sharing the same model name will of course still work perfectly as before. - DM7020: Nameserver address fixed on SmartSettings copy - DM7000: Rewritten GO file, updated and fixed for latest images All .ko modules are now FULL removed before starting a multiboot image. The kernel modules aren't belonging to flash image any more (if an image of same kernel version is to be started, of course). Multiboot images will use their own modules. - DM7000: Fixed patches on rcS file of latest CVS (no remark lines as unique statement inside if..then..fi conditional, as ash shell scripts don't like it... ;-) - New Boot menu 1.8 - SmartTelnet clipboard buffer enhanced, for wider range of copy/paste data. - Other fixes and code tunings, as ever :-) TO DO: ====== - DM7020: Install in flash of NFI images and FWZ backups. Please be patient a while, this will be the next step, I promise :-) Notes: ====== - When installing a non-enigma image (Neutrino), please make sure to disable SmartSettings copy. SmartSettings copy procedure is tuned for Enigma images and will not work on others. =============================================================================== Release 7o2o BETA 1 26/09/2005 - THIS IS A PUBLIC BETA Every comment or bug report is highly appreciated, best for me if posted on the official support forum, where I daily hang around :-) http://www.satnews.it/vbforum/forumdisplay.php?f=28 Thanks. - Added DM7020 to the known machines :-) On DM7020 is currently supported: 1) Multiboot install/remove of images and backups (*.fwz), both OpenEmbedded native images and "old" dm7000 images are supported, and also FW backups (*.fwz) of old and new openembedded images. 2) Settings save/restore for current running image. 3) SmartSettings Copy, even from OE image to standard one (this was the hard part to do!) You will find all properly set-up on your brand new installed image, even at first boot ;-) 4) Compatible with all known images in flash, no need of an official DMM one. - Full automatic recognition of connected dreambox model and running image type (open embedded or standard structured or cramfs only, as for old DM500 images), and also install-time recognition of new image's structure. The end user will take no care of what image he wish to install and where, all patches and fixes will be automatically performed by FlashWizard. - Added images install on Compact Flash (DM7020 and DM7000 with tricky install) On DM7000, you must switch you HDD to slave (if you have any) in order to work with a compatible Compact Flash, then you must patch the mount commands in your images to /dev/ide/.../target1/... for letting the hdd being recognized and mounted. WARNING: DO NOT connect a CF on DM7000 unless you know exactly what you are doing!!! Otherwise you could damage your hdd and/or loose all you recordings! You have been warned.... (However, this is not FlashWizard-related, you can hopefully find full how-to documentation on all dreambox forums worldwide). No problems with DM7020, you just have to use a compatible CF. - Added Compact Flash format and mount buttons (on Config and Utilities Window). - Updated boot menu to handle CF, with auto-recognition of hosting machine (current version is 1.7) - Added SmartTelnet image recognition: The "Quick FTP" buttons will automatically be set on right destination directories, according to which image type is currently selected at SmartTelnet launch (open embedded or standard 7000-like image) The image infos (version) will be collected from right place, with auto recognition too. - TODO: * DM7020 Flash install of images and backups (due to nand memory hardware, it is not easy as before). * Install of 7020 images on 7000 (hmmm... not so necessary feature, I think ... at least now! ;-). - NOTES: 1) As far as I know, FlashWizard is not compatible with Miniroot installed on 7020 flash image. Please uninstall Miniroot if you wish to try FlashWizard. 2) Installing images on NFS does not work properly with 7020. I have no idea why it don't work, as it works like a charm with DM7000/DM500/DM5620 The procedure is identical, but the NFS install actually hangs on DM7020... Should be related to networking problems of actual 7020 images. I think. So: please use only CF-HDD-USB on a DM7020 for the moment. 3) DM7020: It is highly recommended to have the flash image running when you start to install a new image on multiboot. =============================================================================== Release 5.2 PRO 01/09/2005 - Advanced Secure Install procedure After further and deeper testings about the squashfs problem, I found that low free memory is _almost everytime_ the main cause for having files corrupted during install. This means that newer squashfs versions need much more memory to work, mainly because the squashfs packing blocks size reached 65536 bytes on latest version, to allow a bigger compression ratio. Last Squashfs v2.2 has however some smart embedded options when working on constrained memory systems, so it's higly recommended to use this one on very limited memory envinronments, like Dreambox is. Keeping that news in mind, I tuned up the whole multiboot install procedure, and added a new option: if empty or corrupted files are found, a new button "Kill enigma and retry" is provided on the error log window. By selecting that button, FlashWizard will first kill enigma process, then will retry to install the image. This new procedure has proved to resolve almost all files corrupted installations, so it is highly recommended to select it, if errors were found. But, if errors are still present after the Kill enigma procedure, then is mostly a problem arised in image packing, expecially when always the same files are listed. Then, if you decide to continue the install, you should check those files manually when finished, before rebooting dreambox. - Full French translation included (locale + docs), by Mimi74. Thanks :-) =============================================================================== Release 5.1 PRO 29/08/2005 - Advanced Secure Install procedure for multiboot images. This powerful procedure checks automatically the reliability of all copied files...
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