April 2010 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Grml 2010.04 released
by Michael Prokop 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi Grml fans, on behalf of the Grml team, I'm proud to announce a new stable release: Grml 2010.04 with codename Grmlmonster, available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32bit and 64bit version has been released. The official release announcements providing all the relevant news are available at: grml => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2010.04/ grml64 => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-2010.04/ grml-medium => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-medium-2010.04/ grml64-medium => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-2010.04/ grml-small => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-small-2010.04/ grml64-small => http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-small-2010.04/ Issues regarding the releases can be found in the grml-wiki at: grml => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.04 grml64 => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_2010.04 grml-medium => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_2010.04 grml64-medium => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_2010.04 grml-small => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2010.04 grml64-small => http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-small_2010.04 As usual you can get the ISO(s) via bittorrent, http and/or ftp from the mirrors listed at: http://grml.org/download/ or just visit http://download.grml.org/ to use our new GeoIP mirror setup (automatically try to figure out the best matching mirror). 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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Call for Help: Grml's Download webpage
by Michael Prokop 14 May '10

14 May '10

Hi! We need your help! http://grml.org/download/ sucks from user's POV. Too overloaded, rc vs. stable not clearly visible,.. We'd like to see that page improved. I for myself like the way Ubuntu is doing that with http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download We already have a GeoIP setup for our mirrors (being http://download.grml.org/), we just don't have an according integration into our homepage yet. What I'd like to see: * a "wizard-like" download webpage, similar to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download * provide an easy way to choose between the flavours (default to grml-full, 32bit) and stable vs. testing/development versions (release candidates and maybe even dailys from daily.grml.org?) * provide a better integration of checksum (files) and information about flavours * [ your place for innovation :) ] You think you could help us? We'd love to hear from you! regards, -mika-

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Timezone problem
by Darshaka Pathirana 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi! When booting grml on a system where Windows is installed and the hardware-clock is set to local time I often get annoyed when finding out that the timestamps are all wrong because grml assumes the system is set to UTC. There might be a boot option to fix this ("grml gmt tz=..." ?) but I would prefer such an option somewhere in the start menu. Would that be possible or is there another way for doing that (quickly)? Greetings - Darsha

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asus 1005ha-m and grml-kernel 2.6.31
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello, i use the grml-squeeze with kernel 2.6.31 on my netbook asus 1005ha-m. I use speakup and brltty. But i want to show another User some photos or videos. mplayer did not use any video output. Lsmod show me, that there is now video driver loaded. Which driver must i load, to use mplayer with which -vo option to show another user a video? Thanks Dietmar

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zsh for all users
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello, i need some help. After installing grml-squeeze on my netbook ausus 1005ha-m the from my added users don't use the zsh, they use bash. What must i do, that all users use zsh? Thanks for your help. Dietmar

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pxe-boot-problems
by Martin Schulte 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hello, i'm using grml the first time, and i run in some problems. I followed this guide http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver to boot grml via pxe. My default config-file looks like this: ----- LABEL grml KERNEL linux26 APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=main:/nfs/grml boot=live lang=us nomce quiet apm=power-off nodhcp noprompt noeject initrd=minirt26.gz vga=791 ----- I copied the linux26 and the minirt26.gz file to my tftpboot-directory. PXE-booting worked before. I mounted the grml-medium_2009.10.iso using 'mount -o loop' to /nfs/grml. This path (/nfs) is entered in the /etc/exports and works fine. While booting, i get the message: ------ Could not find kernel image: linux ------ If you look above in my default the kernel is set this way: KERNEL linux26 so, i first don't unterstand the sense of this message, because the kernel is named: linux26 Second, after renaming linux26 into linux, this message don't occurs, but the system is going down, soon. Someone who knows the resons? Thanks, Martin

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