February 2009 - Grml - lists.mur.at

the linux cookbook
by Josh 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, wow I did not know I could read the linux cookbook online until I did a google search for it and found it online. But here's a problem I need to overcome, and if anyone has already overcome this being blind, can you share how you did it? Ok, so for me to practically use this cookbook, I will need to: *be able to somehow read the book and then go to my computer and follow the directions. so I would need two computers? one to read the book on, and another to have grml Linux on. or *have a braille copy of the Linux cookbook so I therefore only need one computer and can read the braille copy to refer back to. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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GRMLCFG working on 2008.11?
by Johannes Kastl 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hello, I started the grml 2008.11 ISO image in a virtual machine (VirtualBox 2.1.12 on OSX 10.5), which had a 5 GB hard disk. I partitioned the hard disk, and labelled one partition GRMLCFG (obviously after formatting it ;-) ). After restarting I mounted the image, and used save-config -all to created a file called config.tbz on that partition. It seems to me that when booting something from that partition is copied (long list of files), but neither the language setting nor the network settings are restored. Is this normal? Should those settings be stored, or are they excluded? As far as I understood the docu the whole /etc should be saved. During saving the config, I get errors the first time I run save-config, saying that file xyz changed during reading. Disappears the second time you run save-config. Any hints? Tricks? Bugs? Regards, OJ P.S.: If this message appears twice, then posting via gmane *does* work... -- | Yes, I know. But there are even conjobs running as user games? Sometimes when cron is bored he starts playing games, didn't you know? ;-) (Aschwin Marsman and Robert Schiele on the opensuse-Mailinglist)

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Re: [Grml] grml and mactel
by Chaitat Piriyasatit 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

I booted grml from the live cd on macmini. I plugged an 8GB usb flash drive into the macmini. I used grml2hd to install onto my flash drive. I then rebooted macmini while the flash was plugged. Refit saw my flash drive with a linux icon. I chose to boot from that. I failed. The error message was something like cannot find OS to be loaded. -- Chaitat Piriyasatit -original message- Subject: Re: [Grml] grml and mactel From: Johannes Kastl <ojkastl(a)gmx.de> Date: 02/28/2009 5:19 PM On 2/28/09 5:39 AM Chaitat Piriyastit wrote: > * install grml on a flash drive (usb) using grml2hd On which computer have you booted into grml? I assume you are trying to install grml from a running grml? > * my computer is MacMIni (Intel) Sweet. > * i install RefIt which shows me options to boot from my flash drive Yeah, very nice. > However, it seems like I need to do something about EFI. Why? How do you come to this conclusion? What is not running? Can you boot anything else than Mac OSX from refit? Have you tried a GRML live cd? > Do you have any idea about making the flash bootable by EFI (not BIOS)? I thought your USB device was shown in rEFIt? Regards, OJ -- Was ist die Zeit? Und die lösende, nicht lösende Kinderantwort, Staunensantwort kommt dazu: Die Zeit ist eine Uhr ohne Ziffern. (Ernst Bloch) _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml(a)mur.at http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/ <<signature.asc>>

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feature request: port tazusb to grml
by dny 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

hi. i use grml a lot. like it a lot too. i install to usb with grml2hd and everything is fine. i boot my grml usb almost as much as my hdd. i just testing slitaz livecd and use the tazusb tools. imho, this tazusb is perfect way to install live distro to usb. please check it: http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/manuals/tazusb.en.html the filesystem still compressed just like 'frugal' install only the /home folder is written directly on usb. this way, it minimize writes to usb, which prolong the flashdrive live. but, we can use tazusb writefs to write any changes to the rootfs. and if we do bad things to rootfs (sudo rm -rf /usr), we can easily boot and get back to previous state. nothing lost. (sort of like windows system restore, if any of you use windows....) enough says.... can anyone port this tool to grml? or something similar....?? tia. rgds.dennyhalim.com Mesin Cari Indonesia! http://indosearch.blogspot.com ... they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand. Mat 13:13 ... but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Mat 15:11

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grml and mactel
by Chaitat Piriyastit 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hi, I am trying to: * install grml on a flash drive (usb) using grml2hd * my computer is MacMIni (Intel) * i install RefIt which shows me options to boot from my flash drive However, it seems like I need to do something about EFI. Do you have any idea about making the flash bootable by EFI (not BIOS)? Thanks, -- Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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installing grml
by Josh 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi, How well will grml run on a system with 64mb of ram or 128mb of ram useing speakup with voxin or espeak software speech? Grml 1.1 that is? Josh

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installing grml
by Josh 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

hi, Can someone give me an audio walkthrough on how to nstall grml1.1? Also can someone tell me how to get it working with ethernet? and also if it's possible to update to the latest ESpeak? Also, if it's possible to get voxin working with ESpeak? Josh

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/etc/init.d/bootlocal files
by T o n g 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi, Which package creates /etc/init.d/bootlocal files? I.e., /etc/init.d/bootlocal.first, /etc/init.d/bootlocal.middle & /etc/ init.d/bootlocal.last They are not LSB-compliant, as required by the Debian Policy, chapter 9.3.2 Writing the scripts, http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts . Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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how to disable antialias font in x window
by Chaitat Piriyastit 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hi, I have tried several things such as: $ rxvt -fn 'xft:antialias=false,-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15' or create: /etc/fonts/local.conf and place: <match target="font"> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> inside the file. It still does not work. Is there other workaround? Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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Suggest PFM, the best FM
by T o n g 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hi, How do you define the best file manager? To me, the only standard is how powerful it is. Thus, for me the winner of the best file manager is pfm, http://p-f-m.sourceforge.net/, because there is no other file managers that are more powerful than it. To justify my claim, let me begin with a quote from vshnu: "when one is concerned about file manipulation and management ..., a CLI can be a frustratingly terse interface... A GUI file manager can address this problem, but then you... have lost the advantages of the CLI." I.e., pfm has the normal advantage of a GUI file manager, but its unique feature that allows you to manipulate and manage file and file names using the CLI interface makes it stands out from the crowd. Moreover, there is no other file manager that aligns better with the spirit of grml than pfm's *text based* GUI interface. To explain it, let me begin with a (long) story, - Normally, filename completion, wildcarding and the "xargs" command can cover 99% of my file/directory manipulation and management needs. - If "xargs" is not powerful enough, I use doeach (http://ostatic.com/doeach), which allows me to deal with source file's path, name, and extension separately, and it can build redirection, piping easily on the command line. E.g., piping the selected files through gz and redirect the results in another diectory, named as backup.<org_name>.`date -I`.<org_ext>. - But there are times when a visual point-and-shoot file selection system beats wildcarding. This is the only time that I need file manager, i.e., for arbitrary file selection (and operation). The file manager of my choice is PFM. it allows me to build arbitrary file operation shell command (with the arbitrary selected files). That's the main reason, when back in DOS days, I preferred pfm than NC (OK, I admit that I'm biased). For e.g., a very simple example, covert a bunch of *selected* files as .png files. PFM is able to do: covert file1.gif file1.png covert file2.Gif file2.png covert file3.JPG file3.png . . . Using a simple PFM command: convert =2 =1.png Another more simpler one is, I keep all the pictures from my digital camera on disk, but also maintain a much much smaller list of picked, good ones. I use pfm to pick the good ones, and create symlink in another directory to the pick ones. You can think of other cases as well. My point is, there is no other file manager that can help me to the above except pfm (I've (almost) tried every file manager in OSS world). Moreover, the pfm maintainer, Rene, is very helpful too. FYI, there is a new release that recently came out, with lost of good improvements. I hope everybody will find it useful, and wish that pfm will be included in grml repo. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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