v0.8 9th November 2000 Changed from Rich Payne <rdp@alphalinux.org>
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>
v0.6.1 21 March 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 - Original Document by David Mosberger-Tang
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