August 2008 - Grml - lists.mur.at

grml 1.1, grml64 0.2, grml-medium 0.1 and grml64-medium 0.1 released
by Michael Prokop 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi grml fans, I'm proud to be able to announce new stable releases: grml 1.1 with codename Skunk, grml64 0.2 with codename Schwammerlklauber and grml[64]-medium 0.1 with codename Pfuh have been released and are hitting the mirrors. The official release announcements providing all the relevant news are available at: grml 1.1 => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-1.1/ grml64 0.2 => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-0.2/ grml-medium 0.1 => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-medium-0.1/ grml64-medium 0.1 => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-0.1/ Issues regarding the releases can be found in the grml-wiki at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_1.1 http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.2 http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_0.1 http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_0.1 As usual you can get the ISO(s) via bittorrent, http and/or ftp from the mirrors listed at: http://grml.org/download/ Have fun and enjoy the new release! As usual your feedback is highly appreciated. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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[grml2usb] Minimize the number of files in the root directory on the usb drive
by Sebastian Krause 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Hello! When I copy grml to a usb pen drive with grml2usb, it puts 30 files and directories into the root directory of that drive. Since I also want to use that drive for other stuff (like portable apps, multimedia files etc.) it's not nice to see my drive cluttered with dozens of files when I access it in some file manager. I've seen some live systems (I guess it was http://sidux.com/) which only need very few files to boot and put almost all of them into some subdirectory so that my directory structure stays pretty clean. It would be nice if grml could achive something similar, or are there any good reasons against this? Sebastian

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grml and grml64 on one CD?
by Thorsten Strusch 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi! I have several i386 and amd64 debian servers. So I have to use grml-medium and grml64-medium CDs. It would be great, if I can have just one CD/DVD with both versions on it. How can I achieve this? Is grml-live able to produce such an multiarch CD? Or if I could change /live to /live64 for grml64, I could use syslinux to select the version to boot... thanks for your help Thorsten

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Grml at FrOSCon 2008
by Michael Prokop 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hi, just to inform you: several grml developers will be at FrOSCon 2008 [http://froscon.org/]. FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne in Germany. There will be a grml booth and a grml developer room where we will discuss about current issues regarding our next release(s) as well as general grml related topics. Feel free to join us, I would love to see you there! Hope to see you, regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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CF card not detected in PCMCIA adapter
by John Magolske 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

I have a CF card plugged into a SanDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter inserted into the PCMCIA slot of an X40 ThinkPad running grml 1.1 (installed to hard disk). The CF card shows up fine when used in conjunction with a USB cardreader or an ide-CF adapter. But with the PCMCIA adapter it doesn't seem to be detected; the CF card does not show up under /dev/disk/by-id. Booting the machine with the CF-card/PCMCIA-adapter inserted causes the boot process to hang at "Waiting for /dev to be populated..." Booting first then inserting the CF-card/PCMCIA-adapter I see: % dmesg ... pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 cs: memory probe 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff: excluding 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff cs: memory probe 0xd0200000-0xdfffffff: excluding 0xd0200000-0xd11fffff 0xd1a00000-0xd21fffff 0xd2a00000-0xd31fffff 0xd3a00000-0xd81fffff 0xd8a00000-0xd91fffff 0xd9a00000-0xda1fffff 0xdaa00000-0xdb1fffff 0xdba00000-0xdc1fffff 0xdca00000-0xdd1fffff 0xdda00000-0xde1fffff 0xdea00000-0xdf1fffff 0xdfa00000-0xe01fffff pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 scsi0 : pata_pcmcia ata1: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0x00013100 ctl 0x0001310e bmdma 0x00000000 irq 3 ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5 ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) ata1: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4) % pccardctl -v ls Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:00.0) Configuration: state: on ready: unknown Voltage: 3.3V Vcc: 3.3V Vpp: 0.0V Socket 0 Device 0: [pata_pcmcia] (bus ID: 0.0) Configuration: state: on Product Name: SanDisk SDP 5/3 0.6 Identification: manf_id: 0x0045 card_id: 0x0401 function: 4 (fixed disk) prod_id(1): "SanDisk" (0x7a954bd9) prod_id(2): "SDP" (0x91844b1c) prod_id(3): "5/3 0.6" (0xaac4295b) prod_id(4): --- (---) Searching the net I found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116613 Thanks for any help or suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Envy Code R monospace TrueType font
by Mark 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

http://damieng.com/blog/tag/envy-code-r "Free to use but redistribution prohibited." So, you have to download it yourself, or grml must try to get special permission (which would be very nice).

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How to set a different mail program for crontab
by Peter 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Hi Is there a way to make cron use a different mail programm, say nail instead of the default mail program. I found various env vars (MAIL, MAILPATH) related to email but none to specify the mail program itself. Thanks for help Peter

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grml and grml64 on one CD?
by Mark 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

A combined 32/64 grml CD would be nice, like http://www.finnix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/finnix_dev_boot_menu1… This distro is equivalent to grml-small or grml-medium. I use it for PowerPC admin (32 and 64). Grml CD has previously included two versions of Python, for example. Size-wise, two kernels is not a big deal.

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Wireless Configuration Problem
by Tom White 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

I recently switched from wired to wireless networking on my 2.6.23-grml hard disk system. I configured wireless while the wired networking card was still in my laptop and connected. I'm sure I had wireless working because I set the cable modem on my ethernet port offline. Now I've removed my wired networking equipment and GRML doesn't configure wireless networking. After a "modprobe bcm43xx" and "ifup eth1" the syslog records: Microcode bcm43xx_microcode4.fw not available or load failed That file is still in /lib/firmware, and its date predates the removal of my wired networking hardware. "grml-network" doesn't see eth1, but "iwconfig" does. I'm guessing that GRML loaded additional code at boot when it found a wired ethernet connection. -- -- Tom White

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Re: [Grml] grml and grml64 on one CD?
by Thorsten Strusch 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hello Albretch, Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 17:06 -0400 schrieb Albretch Mueller: I think CD use something called "sessions" as partitions. There is a > book "Live Linux CDs" by Chris Negus > ~ > http://www.amazon.com/dp/0132432749/ > ~ > comes with a DVD with the "sessions" containing a number of Linux > live CD versions > ~ > I think you should double check this because this is what I remember > off the top of my head > thanks for this link - sounds very interesting! But I think it should be easier to change /live on CD creation time. Therefore I installed grml-live on my debian/lenny notebook. But so far I have not found a config snippet where /live is defined... tia Thorsten On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Thorsten Strusch <thorsten(a)ksan.de> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I have several i386 and amd64 debian servers. So I have to > > use grml-medium and grml64-medium CDs. > > It would be great, if I can have just one CD/DVD with both > > versions on it. > > > > How can I achieve this? Is grml-live able to produce such > > an multiarch CD? > > > > Or if I could change /live to /live64 for grml64, I could > > use syslinux to select the version to boot... > > > > thanks for your help > > Thorsten

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