[Server-devel] PRE-Released: Internet-in-a-Box 6.5 Preview 2

[Adam Holt]

Including IIAB 6.5 PRE-Release Notes
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.5-Release-Notes> :-)

But just a warning that Raspbian's mirrors (download servers) were barely
working at all over the past ~12 hours or so, so you might have much better
luck installing on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Debian 9.2.1 or possibly CentOS 7.4 in
the coming hours?

   https://github.com/iiab/iiab/releases

What's new?  Our prototype replacement for ./runansible allows installation
of IIAB 6.5 Preview 2 <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/releases> to progress
far more efficiently, far more readably -- and to recover roughly where it
left off during a large net-based install, avoiding repetition!  So once
you have all your OS prereqs in place
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#do-everything-from-scratch>,
you can now run IIAB's new 9-stage / incremental installer as follows:

   cd /opt/iiab/iiab
   ./iiab-install

NEW: it will even warn you if your Ansible and/or Raspbian kernel are not
recent enough, and guide you to fixing these 2 most essential prereqs!
Finally, most installers/implementers will still want to use a 1-line
install/load scripts -- to walk away from the keyboard and have most
everything taken care of.  As such, YES all our install/load scripts now
take advantage of "./iiab-install" 9-stage incremental/recoverable installs
too:

   http://download.iiab.io/6.5/rpi/

RECAP #1: if you suffer from a connectivity failure during installation of
IIAB, the vast majority of problems are quickly solved by re-trying
"./iiab-install" (after Raspbian mirroring sites hopefully come back to
life later today!)

RECAP #2: Raspbian folk...until the new Raspbian OS (point release) is
officially released in coming days by the Raspberry Pi Foundation & All,
avoid kernel compatibility hassles using this temporary measure to prep
your OS properly, just prior to installing:

   apt update
   apt install raspberrypi-kernel
   reboot
   (then install IIAB as above, either way!)

*Thanks all who've helped make this an incredibly high-quality pre-release
already, just a few short weeks away from its final release sometime later
this November!!*
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