April 2009 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Re: [Grml] Remastering grml
by Peter 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Charles Hewson wrote: > Hi, > Have you looked at GRML-LIVE ? I have been using it on 2008.11 for some time and most of what I recall of this thread you would just edit a list of packages. > > Hi, Thanks to all - I should definitively start to read the _TOP_ of web pages and also start to use FAI now :-) Peter

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Remastering grml
by Peter 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi I am not sure that I understand the instructions for remastering the grml live cd ( old method, not FAI). The man page for grml-live says: Please use squashfs-lzma-tools 3.3.1 if you want to remaster release 2008.11 of grml. I want to remaster the medium flavor. As far as I can see from uname -a , grml 2008 is kernel 2.6.26. However, here <http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/>it is said that only version 2.6.27.6 is officially supported. Also , I was wondering, if this instruction does still apply to grml 2008.11 wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/squashfs/squashfs2.2-r2.tar.gz $ tar xvzf squashfs2.2-r2.tar.gz $ cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build $ patch -p1 --dry-run < /usr/src/squashfs2.2-r2/linux-2.X.Y/squashfs2.2-patch In short, I am asking, what is the recommended way to remaster grml 2008.11 with grml2008.11 as build environment ? Thanks for your help Peter

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Poll: PATA vs. LIBATA
by Michael Prokop 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hi, the grml team wants to collect feedback regarding the recent switch from PATA to LIBATA. PATA? LIBATA? * PATA provides the old IDE subsystem (/dev/hdX), considered as legacy code. * LIBATA is the new subsystem (/dev/sdX) with new features, but some old IDE systems might not work with it. Please participate in the poll! => http://doodle.com/vr75tpe4a2p6mwvt We highly appreciate and need your feedback. Thanks! 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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cdrecord devices
by T o n g 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, The evolving of cdrecord/wodim and its device specification have been convoluted enough for me to get lost on how to use its devices. My current cdrecord command is the "real one" from grml: $ apt-cache policy cdrecord cdrecord: Installed: 9:2.01.01-1~a50 Candidate: 9:2.01.01-1~a50 Version table: *** 9:2.01.01-1~a50 0 683 http://deb.grml.org grml-testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status cdrecord -scanbus suggests to us the ATA interface, so I export CDR_DEVICE=ATA:2,0,0 but when try to access the device, I get: $ cdrecord -toc Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a50 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Jörg Schilling scsidev: 'ATA:2,0,0' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/hd*'. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. $ cdrecord -scanbus . . . 0,7,0 7) * scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX195E1 ' 'ZYS5' Removable CD-ROM . . . What's the proper way to specify devices for cdrecord? I'm using recent GRML64 daily build snapshot. Does above have anything to do with ATA being disable in grml kernel? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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