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Using grml? Let us know!
by Michael Prokop 12 Dez '08

12 Dez '08

Hi, I'll hold a talk about grmlÂ¹ at the Open Source Data Center ConferenceÂ² on 29/30 April 2009 in NÃ¼rnberg/Germany. I'd like to show the attendees how grml is used in Real World Environments and need your contribution! You are using grml in your company for system recovery, presenting demos of your application, automated system installation,...? Please let me know! This is *your* chance to present your company or product in my talk. :) If it's necessary you can also submit your stories anonymously or request that I'll withhold your identity while presenting your setup. Feel free to forward this mail to anyone who might have interesting stories for me, I'd love to hear from you. Â¹ http://www.netways.de/english/osdc/y2009/programm/v/grml/ Â² http://www.netways.de/english/osdc/y2009/ regards, -mika-

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Remastering grml64
by Jan Bakuwel 11 Dez '08

11 Dez '08

Hi, In the past I have succesfully used grml-small as the basis for a customised rescue CD. I had to add some packages, which was relatively easy to do as I could copy the contents of the squashfs filing system, chroot into it, add packages to my hearts desire and recreate the squashfs file. Now I am trying to do the same with grml64-small, which proves to be quite a challenge. I am no longer able to mount the file with the root filing system... squashfs doesn't recognise it even though the name suggests its a squashfs filing system in a file (live/grml64-small.squashfs). I do not necessarily need the latest version of grml... I am quite happy with the older version. However I do need a 64bit kernel so I am able to get grub installed from within a 64bit userland (one of the reasons for making the rescue CD). My problem would likely be solved if I would know how to access the root filing system in live/grml64-small.squashfs, make changes (adding packages, setting passwords etc) and recreate the file. Does anyone know? kind regards, Jan - Ubuntu Hardy amd64 squashfs-tools 1:3.3-1ubuntu2. -- ---- "It is an illusion to think that we are free to apply our increasing knowledge in any way we choose. In reality we are struggling to d1eal with the consequences of it." -- John Gray ----

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problem with GRMLCFG (label of a disk), config files in grml's home directory and rsync
by Chaitat Piriyastit 06 Dez '08

06 Dez '08

Hi friends, I am using grml 1.1 in Parallel Desktop under MacOSX. Everything looks good except that I have a small problem. Here are the steps to produce: * ALT+F4 * grml $ grml-x fvwm * In fvwm: I started FireFox, Dillo, and etc * exit fvwm * ALT+F1 * # save-config -all * # mount /dev/hda /mnt/GRMLCFG * # mv config.tbz /mnt/GRMLCFG * # reboot After rebooted, it shows me this error: -- rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.dillo": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.mozilla": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default/chrome" failed: Permission denied (13) *** Skipping everything below this failed directory *** rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.dillo/.bm.txt.G7cQgH" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.mozilla/.appreg.ikKPRG" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/.profiles.ini.cGVwDN" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default/.bookmarks.html.o19FpU" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default/.components.ini.CVFr30" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default/.defaults.ini.k7SGH7" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default/.mimeTypes.rdf.OZdbme" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: mkstemp "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default/.search.rdf.WG4D3k" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.dillo": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.mozilla": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox": Operation not permitted (1) rsync: failed to set times on "/home/grml/.mozilla/firefox/vitkv6oh.default": Operation not permitted (1) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9] -- These directories are the directories created by grml user before the reboot time. It seems to me that whatever config files inside grml's home directory has been modified, after save-config and placed it in GRMLCFG disk, then rebooted, these error will come. Any idea? Thanks, Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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Short hint: booting via PXE WITHOUT NFS
by Markus Wigge 05 Dez '08

05 Dez '08

Hi everybody, just a quick hint for those who like to boot a grml-small via PXE but don't want to setup a NFS server for it. With the old release I patched the initrd to achieve this, but since 2008.11 this works out of the box: Setup your pxelinux.cfg like this: ---------------------------------------- LABEL grml-small-2008.11 MENU LABEL grml-small 2008.11 (HTTP) kernel grml/2008.11/small-linux26 append initrd=grml/2008.11/small-minirt26.gz boot=live \ fetch=http://archive.example.org/grml-2008.11/grml-small.squashfs \ nodhcp noeject vga=791 lang=de have fun, Markus

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installing on a usb stick
by Sean Kennedy 04 Dez '08

04 Dez '08

I have an 8 GB usb stick on which I would like to install grml. Does anyone have recommendations regarding the use of grml2hd vs. grml2usb? Using Ubuntu's usb-creator, I got a system that would boot on my desktop, but not on my x61 thinkpad ... Thanks.

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

01 Dez '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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Netboot package for grml64 2008_11
by Jason White 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hello, Is there a netboot package for grml64 2008_11? If not, is there a script to create one? I may need to use PXE to boot a machine that requires a recent kernel (2.6.26 should be fine) for driver support. I've used GRML a number of times and it has always solved my problems (e.g., booting issues after making a mistake with a kernel upgrade). Also, thanks are due to the grml developers for including BRLTTY in the distribution, enabling it to work with my braille display hardware immediately on boot.

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To Michael Gebetsroither
by T o n g 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hi Michael, I sent you some patches for grml-chroot the other day, on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM, to michael.geb(a)gmx.at, but I haven't get any respond yet. Nor did I see any related update in git. I'm wondering if you have received them, and your feedback for the patches. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml release candidate 2 of version 2008.11
by Michael Prokop 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, just a short note: release candidate 2 of grml version 2008.11 is available via http://debian.netcologne.de/www.grml.org/devel/ Main changes from rc1 to rc2: * Updated Debian packages by 2008-11-20 * Implemented isofrom and tohd bootoptions. http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-che… * Disabled NOPERSISTENT='Yes' in live-initramfs configuration * Removed CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK from kernel, fixes issue568 http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue568 * Major update of grml-debootstrap (version 0.23) http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml-testing-changes/2008-November/000316.html * Some minor updates and fixes in grml related scripts and configurations. * Updated documentation. The stable release is expected to be released on this weekend (end of november, so really soon!). So please grab rc2 and give it a try so we can catch the train and publish the stable release as planned. :) regards, -mika-

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First contact with grml_small 2008.11
by Peter 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi Thanks a lot for the new release. I just installed grml_small and it works fine. I had to tweak things and I do not know if this was due to my ignorance, if it was a feature or a bug, so I just report it: I did the harddisk install (grml_small) and I _unselected_ dhcp. I noticed on startup that pump was working, and in fact , the dhcp option was activated ( = yes ) in the autoconfig file. I also noticed that networking was not in the onlevel column (2,3,4,5) in runlevel.conf, I am not sure if this is necessary, but after the install, networking did not come up on rebooting. I also was wondering , why resolv.conf was symlinked to some other file. As far as I understood, if dhcp is not used,than resolv.conf is required and should not be overridden on startup. Finally I was wondering , if utf8 should not be the default even in grml_small (echo $LANG returns "C"). Again, please forgive if these are newbie questions and thanks for you help Peter

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