February 2013 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Grml - new stable release 2013.02 available
by Michael Prokop 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, we just released Grml 2013.02 - Grumpy Grinch. This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2013.02: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2013.02/ Grab the latest Grml ISO(s) and spread the word! http://grml.org/download/ Thanks everyone and happy grml-ing, -mika-

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First Release Candidate of Grml version 2013.02 released
by Michael Prokop 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi, so we did it again, the first release candidate of the upcoming Grml version 2013.02, code-named 'Grumpy Grinch' was released. This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. For detailed information about the changes between 2012.05 and 2013.02 have a look at the official release announcement: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2013.02-rc1/ Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and report back so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of February. regards, -mika- - for the Grml.org project

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Where can I download the file: grml_2011.05.iso ?
by Tom {Tomcat} Oehser 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

I can't find it anymore on the download sites? I thought I had it around, but can only find the 64bit version... -Thanks! -Tom -- "Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world." --Theodore Parker The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it -- and that's all. It is thus that we should love. -- DeGourmont

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User feedback from Whonix creator
by adrelanos 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi! > What are your reasons using Grml instead of other Live CDs? I am the creator of Whonix, which is an anonymous operating system based on Tor. A Debian derivative, run by most people inside Virtual Box. grml-debootstrap is used to create the .img files with the operating system packages. It's amazing and much more convenient than using debootstrap manually, creating a vm image manually, not to speak about installing grub inside a vm image. website: http://whonix.sf.net/ source code: https://github.com/adrelanos/Whonix > What are you missing from Grml? How can I change the path for /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list to /home/user/something? If that's not possible yet, I am missing that command line option. Running scripts inside the image doesn't work reliable to me. I mean, there are no bugs, it works, creating the image with many packages takes too long and I tend to have small mistakes in my scripts and if I want to debug my chroot script, I really can't afford recreating the whole image. It takes too long. So I created half of the stuff myself, which I am missing in grml-debootstrap, but unfortunately paths are hardcoded for Whonix. * (un)mount the image. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --mount /path/to/vm.img --to /tmp/mounted And then "cd /tmp/mounted" and look arround in the image, perhaps change a few things. After being done: grml-debootstrap --unmount /tmp/mounted * Run scripts inside the image without re-creating the image. Mouting an image, chrooting the image, running a script inside the image, unchrooting and unmounting. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --mount /path/to/vm.img --run /path/to/script.sh * Mount the image interactively. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --interactive /path/to/vm.img grml-debootstrap could mount the image, chroot into it, open a bash shell and upon exit the bash shell, unchroot and unmount. Also mounting user defined files/folders inside chroot would be necessary. * support for .vdi and .vmdk image creation * maybe a bit far fetched: creation of Virtual Box, Qubes OS etc. virtual machine description files, .ova format, which can be deployed and imported into Virtualizers * Ubuntu support (or can it be already build from Debian?) * built in support for using apt-cacher-ng to speed up re-creating of images * a tool for installing "normal" Debian on an encrypted (USB) harddisk - Ask for which hdd to use. - Focus on external hdds. - Format the hdd. - Partition the hdd. (Personally prefer a single partition and not using extra swap partition, but a swap file instead.) - Encrypt everything, but boot, including swap using cryptsetup/dm-crypt. - Install a "normal" (fully persistent) Debian to USB using debootstrap/chroot. ("Normal" as in if you used a Debian installer CD to install to hdd.) - Allow to mount/chroot the encrypted hdd if the password is given, so extra files can be copied and extra scripts can be applied. Thanks for creating and maintaining grml. Cheers! adrelanos

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network boot with nfs4 root
by Joerg Dorchain 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hello, I tried to setup a boot server with pxe. I followed loosely the wiki http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver for that. So far all went fine, except mounting the root over nfs4. My nfs server is version4 only, and from packet logs I see that grml tries nfs version3 only over and over. Is this a bugs or is there some trick for get it to work with nfs4? Also, as I am using the grml96 iso image via a loopback mount, I would greatly appreciate if I could use the bootmenu for isolinux also for pxelinux. To me it seems it is mainly a matter of pathnames (and maybe symlinks) to get it to work with a statement like LABEL grml-from-iso CONFIG <iso-root>/boot/isolinux/<common.cfg> APPEND <<iso-root> from pxelinux.cfg Bye, Joerg

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