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Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.05 available
by Michael Prokop 21 Mai '09

21 Mai '09

Hi! We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.05 codename "Lackdose-Allergie" is available! Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the nifty new features: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2009.05/ As usual we have different flavours available: the 32bit versions grml, grml-medium and grml-small as well as the 64bit versions grml64, grml64-medium and grml64-small. Please test the ISOs and all the stuff you usually need so we can provide rocking stable releases soon. Download the ISOs from the devel directory of the mirrors listed at http://grml.org/download/ Happy hacking and have fun with grml! 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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grml-live vs. debian-live (vs. FAI)
by Darshaka Pathirana 14 Mai '09

14 Mai '09

Hi! The subject says it all: I was trying to find out a short outline why one should use the one or the other. As far as I can unsterstand it after a short evaluation is that both are able to do nearly the same. Both use debootstrap and are able to define hooks and afterwards a ISO is created. The advantage of grml-live seems to be the usage of the FAI-class concept but debian-live seems to be the more "official" way to do it. My motivation is a bit different than *-live and FAI provide. *-live are intended to build a Live-CD and FAI deploys a system on a running machine (by PXE or Boot-CD). I do NOT need a bootable ISO. I need the possibility to install Debian into a USB-Device or CF-Card. So I actually use the base.tar.gz (created by FAI or by an other installation) to untar it onto the target from my running system. Afterwards again some hooks are run and the bootloader is installed. I think this is ridiculous! There must be a better way. Any thoughts about this? Thanks && HAND, - Darsha

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Re: [Grml] question related to included Freedos in The GRML distro
by Maurice McCarthy 04 Mai '09

04 Mai '09

Dear Janusz, I've had a little time to look. I have 2 computers. one is an Acer laptop one year old. It would not boot freedos at all, initdisk had an opcode failure followed by a list of hex numbers which I do not understand. I tried with the grml cd and a freedos 1.0 live and installation cd. The other is an old Pentium II. It looks to me that freedos boots from CD as a floppy emulation whereas grml boots in non-emulation mode. This means that when you say > If i will type > dos > At The GRML live CD boot prompt, free DOS is sucessfully loaded. But > please, which keys should i press to activate A shell? Because when i > wanted to type > > a: > or c: > > Nothink has happened. Or is there only choice to install free DOS or only > graphical shell is included? then you should already have a prompt A:\> Freedos already thinks it is on the A drive so that if you type a: then nothing changes! When you type c: you ought to get an error message saying no such drive or similar. 2. When booting freedos did you choose the option with himem.sys and emm386 and shcdux (the cd driver?) Unless you have a very old system it is probably wise. 3. Perhaps you might get help from www.freedos.org as freedos on grml is kind of an added extra and I don't know if many people use it. 4. If you boot the grml cd and go grub - any key - down arrow once - enter then it boots freedos with a few utils including the dos port of testdisk. It lands on this prompt A:\TOOLS> Now if you go testdisk /list (perhaps without the backslash) then it will list all the current partitions which it can see from dos. This may give you some info as to why you cannot see the fat32 partition. 5. Lastly unless I find my old XP installation disk to try what you are doing for myself then I'm getting stuck on how else to help. Still if you have more questions then please ask. Best Wishes Moss PS I think you right that a bios by default ought to look at a usb device to boot then a cd and thirdly a hard disk. I cannot imagine that finding a usb sound system should present too much difficulty. Perhaps you should try Apple first. Might sound odd but as their EFI boot is vastly superior to the BIOS (which will be replaced in the not too distant future, I reckon) then it would be an enhancement for Apple above the competition. That is there is something in it for them!

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Can Grml tell (and repair) what Fedora did?
by Hubert Gabler 04 Mai '09

04 Mai '09

Dear experts, I have a mini-notebook Acer One with Linpus Lite installed. Playing around with this nice little toy I successfully installed Ubuntu 9.04 (replacing Linpus) and on USB-sticks Debian Live and grml 2008.11-rc1. Everything worked perfectly. Then I wanted to install Fedora 10, which semmed to take more time than expected and so I left the Acer unattended over night. Next day the display was frozen and I tried to reboot with the Grml-USB-Stick. Booting stopped quite soon, telling me "This grml image failed to boot" and "No supported filesystem images found at /live". Then came the prompt (initramfs). Hopefully I tried the (previoulsy working) Debian Live Stick. Same thing, booting stops at (initramfs). Now I decided to start from scratch and made a new setup with Acer's recovery disk. System works fine, but Grml and Debian Live still end booting with those error messages. Can it be that the unsuccessfull Fedora installation damaged for instance the buit-in RAM or did other nasty things? Can I find out with help of Ubuntu or Grml 1.1 (works both from CDROM and from a USB-stick) what is the reason and how to return to the original state? Thankful for any help, Hubert

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Re: [Grml] question related to included Freedos in The GRML distro
by Maurice McCarthy 03 Mai '09

03 Mai '09

Dear Janusz I've not been able to look too far yet but I'll make a few comments. 1. smartdrv does appear to be a legal download http://webinstituteforteachers.org/resources/software/BOOTDISKS-FOR-GHOSTIN… is hosted by the University of Chicago 2. From memory freedos boots to X: when launched from the grml disk. I'll try to reproduce your problem of moving to a: or c: when I've got time. 3. It is some time since I've used SBM but you may have to hide other drives to see the FAT32 partition as the first partion of the first hard drive. In grub you would use the map command to make it look like (hd0,0) 4. It is another learning curve but grub4dos is a customisation of grub for Windows with certain enhancements such as looking for bootable partitions and loading them automatically. Again I am not well versed in its use. 5. The legality of dos boot disks may be difficult to say but msdos is no longer supported and I think mscdex (? I think that was the name, MS cd driver) waspreviously given away by microsoft themselves. 6. A brief look at Nlite has me thinking it is a procedure allowing you to manipulate what you paid for and I cannot imagine how it would be illegal. 7. Up to Win XP it is usually best when dual booting to install Windows first and then Linux because XP is too stupid to be aware of other operating systems - hence the necessity of 3 above. All for now Moss On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 04:54:01PM +0200 or thereabouts, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: > Dear syr, > > I Am deeply and highly appreciating Your kind approach to me. I Am very, > very glad, that there are several Linux live CDS, because those live CDS > and installable Linux distros can be used like a standalone operating > systems. And, this is also very remarkable, those operating systems, if > they are including NTFS3g driver, can help people with no sight to rescue > important data, if those data are not accessible because of corrupted > Windows Xp or even Windows Vista installations. I Am trying to convince > core developers of Linux distros, if they would enable special boot option, > which would forcing The most complex HAL related algorithms, while special > application is communicating with BIOS and is searching for plug and play > devices to search only USB sound cart and ignore all integrated or PCi > connected sound carts. Why? It is inpossible to make live CD, which would > include all awaylable sound carts. There is too many various sound > manufacturers throught out The world. So my wisch is to neable visually > impaired users to choose autodetection algorithms, which would only search > sound devices throught The USB port. But it will probably stay only my > dream. Visually impaired user would become a fully valuable system > administrator, because he or she could access all computers with USB ports. > Eventhough there is theoretical possibility, that there would also be > problems with other hardware, for example with some of integrated chips on > The mother board for example, one of those chips, which can be rewieved by > using Windows XP control panel, device manager and by using system devices > group. > > But detecting USB sound cart would enable visually impaired users, that > specified USB sound carts would be usable on every computer with USB port. > > I will try to discuss it with author of father of all Linux distro, with MR > Klaus Knopper. He developed very complex knoppix and HAL algorithms, i will > looking forward to his opinion. > >

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question related to included Freedos in The GRML distro
by Maurice McCarthy 02 Mai '09

02 Mai '09

Dear Janusz I'll gladly try to help but it may be a few days before I can explore this for myself. I have forwarded your email to the grml list in case any one there may have a comment also. Best Wishes Moss ----- Forwarded message from "Mgr. Janusz Chmiel" <chmiel(a)phil.muni.cz> ----- Subject: question related to included Freedos in The GRML distro From: "Mgr. Janusz Chmiel" <chmiel(a)phil.muni.cz> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:57:11 +0200 To: Maurice McCarthy <moss(a)mythic-beasts.com> Dear syr, You have been able to answer all my questions and thank's to You, i were able to install GRML to A harddrive, i also deeply understood The parted commands and other administrative tasks. But i would like to ask You for next question. If i will type dos At The GRML live CD boot prompt, free DOS is sucessfully loaded. But please, which keys should i press to activate A shell? Because when i wanted to type a: or c: Nothink has happened. Or is there only choice to install free DOS or only graphical shell is included? Is it possible to legally download smartdrv.exe or similar equivalent, which installation program for Windows Xp will detect like smartdrv? Thank You very much for Your answers. The program winnt.exe can be used for installing Windows XP from DOS, by using setupmgr.exe running from Windows XP which is fully functional, visually impaired user can make fully unattended Windows XP installation. But i Am experiencing methodological problems, for example, i can not boot To The FAT32 partition, which is containing installation files prepared by using setupmgr.exe application. I can access this partition by using Windows XP boot diskette or Windows 98 Se boot diskette, but i can not boot it by using smart boot manager. Eventhough i set The FAT32 partition as a primary, which is a condition to access this partition from DOS, fortunately, gparted is allowing this, that i did not had to use logical partition with FAT32. I could resize existing NTFS partition, and in The free space, i could specifi right start and end of this FAT32 one. Parted is using reliable and safe algorithms, if user knows, what he is doing with this tool. It is possible to boot DOS if this operating system is being installed by a first operating system, in this case, WIndows XP installation program is making officially supported activity to support booting betveen DOS or Windows XP. But i want to support visually impaired users, so they could perform unattended installation when their instalation of WIndows XP is being corrupted. There are even WEB pages with several DOS boot diskettes, which are having included CD ROM Drivers, but i do not know, if those boot disks are legal to use. And there is not many modern computers with floppy drive, and bioses are not setup by The way, so flash disk can beused for booting. And my algorithms are intended to be fully usable by non sighted users. If YOu would support me, i would be very glad. There is awaylable solution, Nlite, But i Am afraid, that Microsoft will force The author of this program to remove it from The Internet, may be, that he consulted licensing issues with The Microsoft CORP, because his WEB site and Nlite program is existing for many years. ¨His solution is working very reliably, even sound drivers can be integrated to The .iso file. But i would like to support official tools for deploying Windows XP installation. Visually impaired users are not able to use partition manager included in Windows XP installation, this tool is also enough to make several partitions, but i like parted and Linux, because i can have full control and feetback from A screen reader. Parted is not supporting so many actions like included partition manager in Windows Xp installation. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Specifying default soundcard for live CD
by Michael Whapples 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hello, Is there any way to set the default soundcard to use on the GRML live CD? An example why this might be needed is for those using speakup with software speech when the computer has multiple soundcards, in this case it is useful that the user can predict which card will be used as they require audio output to use the system. If such a feature doesn't exist I am not fully sure what would be the best way to define which card should be default (eg. module used isn't unique to the model of card (however ALSA modules can recieve an option index=<card number> to set the card as a particular card number, so it indicates in the main it is useful enough), but the card name as given by ALSA may not be the easiest thing to know). Any thoughts? Michael Whapples

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devel-release 2009.04.23 and xserver 7.4
by T o n g 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

Hi, Congratulations mika, for your new baby grml-devel-release 2009.04.23. Is it using xserver 7.4? If so, is there any tools to help generating the fdi files for input devices for the new Xserver 7.4? Any help/write-up that I can refer to? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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where is ~/.xsession-errors
by Peter 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi I was wondering where the ~/.xsession-errors file is on my grml-medium-2008.11 It there on my debian lenny install, and I could not find any google saying where the logging to .xsession-errors has to be enable. Has it been disabled in grml ? Thanks for your help Peter

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BUG with grml2usb?
by Tube 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

I just wanted to install grml to USB using the following stick: # fdisk -lu /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 8011 MB, 8011087872 bytes 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7761 cylinders, total 15646656 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7d815235 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 63 15646175 7823056+ 83 Linux After launching grml2usb, the following happens: # grml2usb /home/daten/images/grml/grml_sid_20090404.iso /dev/sdb1 Using ISO /home/daten/images/grml/grml_sid_20090404.iso Identified grml flavour "grml-daily-sid". Copying files. This might take a while.... Note: grml flavour grml-daily-sid is being installed as the default booting system. Installing default MBR Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/grml2usb", line 1648, in <module> main() File "/usr/sbin/grml2usb", line 1640, in main handle_bootloader(device) File "/usr/sbin/grml2usb", line 1590, in handle_bootloader install_bootloader(device) File "/usr/sbin/grml2usb", line 654, in install_bootloader install_grub(device) File "/usr/sbin/grml2usb", line 606, in install_grub "--root-directory=%s" % device_mountpoint, device], stdout=file(os.devnull, "r+")) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1153, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Does it have sth. to do that in the meantime I formatted the stick with ext2? TIA Tube

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Next stable release
by T o n g 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Hi, > "The next stable release is expected for march 2009." (http://grml.org/ roadmap/) Will it be out soon? Any pending issues or show-stoppers? thanks. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Installing grml on usb stick
by Peter 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hi I wanted to suggest some minor modifications to the instructions concerning the usb stick installation. I found that in order to install grml-medium-2008.11 , I had to adjust the lines in red. I also added some requirements that might not be available , when your build environment is not grml ( I suppose $medium can be replaced with the other flavors but I have not verified ): aptitude install syslinux # syslinux 3.71 or later must be available on your GNU/Linux system <http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/liveusb.php> aptitude install dosfstools # to get mkfs.vfat * Get the grml iso * Mount the iso loopback (e.g. mount -o loop grml_small_0.4.iso /mnt/grml-iso) * Make FAT16 filesystem on the usbstick (e.g. mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1) * Create a disklabel (e.g. dosfslabel /dev/sda1 GRML) * Mount the usbstick (e.g. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external1) * Copy everything to the usbstick (e.g. cp -r /mnt/grml-iso/* /mnt/external1). * Move all files from /mnt/external1/boot/isolinux/ (mv /mnt/external1/boot/isolinux/* /mnt/external1) and the files linux26 and the minirt.gz (since grml1.1: initrd.gz!) from the directory named like the grml-flavour (/boot/grml, /boot/grmlmedium, /boot/grml64,...) to root of usb-stick in /mnt/external1, mv isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg #I am not sure if this is required, though <http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/usbdisk.html> * the files linux26 and initrd.gz must remain in boot/grmlmedium # this is what is said in syslinux.cfg * Umount the usbstick and the grml-iso * Run syslinux on the usbstick (e.g. syslinux /dev/sda1) * Check if the usbstick has an valid mbr, else dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (mbr.bin is in the syslinux package, usually installed in /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin) * may need to set the bootable flag using parted (or fdisk) disk layout: /mnt/external1: addons f1 .. isolinux isolinux.bin syslinux.cfg ldlinux.sys live/ filesystem.module grml-medium.squashfs boot/grmlmedium initrd.gz linux26 Pleases let me know , if I am wrong of if there are better ways to do that ( I know, there is grml2usb, but I want to be sure to understand what's going on) Thanks Peter

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ASUS EEE pc
by Josh Lawrence 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi list, Just took possesion of a brand-new ASUS EEE pc. Nice box, but it's currently running Windows, and I'd like to have grml on it. In researching this issue late last week, I ran across two posts, one that said that grml supports the EEE, and another that said that it would be "the next release" until it is supported. While I don't mind getting my hands dirty, I'd prefer not to have to compile any kernel stuff due to time constraints. Long story short, does the EEE work out of the box with the current grml release? Thanks all, Josh -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

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Audio issues with grml HD installation
by Michael Whapples 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hello, I have been using GRML installed to a HD for a few months now but have started to notice that recently the audio does not always start up (it sometimes works without issue but quite a number of times in the last week it hasn't). When the audio fails to start it seems to be that the modules have not been loaded and using modprobe to load the modules and "alsactl restore" brings it back as it should be. Some info about the system: Motherboard is an Asus p4pe with the soundmax onboard sound card (snd_intel8x0 is the module for this card). I also have a terratec dmx 24/96 (module snd_ice1712) installed in the system. When the sound fails to start neither card has its modules loaded. I hope this is enough system specs. My questions are: How can I confirm whether this is a hardware issue or software issue? Should I be adding the snd_intel8x0 and snd_ice1712 modules to /etc/modules or can I rely on grml's autodetection of hardware? Any other suggestions as to the cause of the problem? One thing which I can't imagine causing the problem but I feel worth mentioning as it differs from the norm, is I use speakup (www.linux-speakup.org) and recently I switched to using the speakup_apollo module (from the software synthesiser module for speakup started with boot cheatcode swspeak) for an apollo synthesiser connected to ttyS0, although I am haven't noticed any correlation between starting using speakup_apollo and the sound issue (however this is through not paying attention to exactly when I first noticed the sound issue). Any help would be welcomed. Michael Whapples

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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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IP address
by Josh Lawrence 26 Mär '09

26 Mär '09

Hello everyone! Problem: I need to be able to assign a static address to my network card. Last night I encountered a problem with network settings in grml. Initially, I thought that I had to edit /etc/networking/interfaces to set my network properties, but that did not work. After doing some research on Google, I found a post from someone asking a similar question, and he was told too look at grml-tips udev, so I looked at that. I see that I am supposed to create a udev rule in /etc/udev/network.rules, but it doesn't tell me how to go about setting static, dhcp, etc. Where am I going wrong? Thank you, Josh -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

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Regarding the use of Pump over DHCPCD
by Keith Hinton 24 Mär '09

24 Mär '09

Hi all, I wanted to ask why grml uses pump and not DHCPCD (latest bleading edge version of course) In my experience when testing grml (compared to Gentoo) or Arch Linux (both of wich use DHCPCD) GRML connected with horribal slowness to my wireless network when broadcasting for an available IP-address.. It would sleep for 60 seconds took over 5 seconds before it connected. I compared this by running DHCPCD on Arch Linux, Gentoo, etc, that use the DHCPCD program. I found no comparason. DHCPCD whins over pump. Regards, --Keith

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How well dos grml work on laptops now?
by Keith Hinton 23 Mär '09

23 Mär '09

Mika, your wiki page on laptops hasn't been updated for a while. Could you address anything like: How to turn off the built-in LCD display etc? I'm currently hosting GRML on Windows because so many Linux accessibility solutions don't work. I'm also testing it that way because I can bridge GRML to my net card on Windows, and evn though it's wireless, my router sees an etherneted PC. I gave up using GRML natively due to a large amount of technical applicaitons, that are not accessible. Has nothing to do against GRML Regards, --Keith

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sounds problem
by Chaitat Piriyastit 23 Mär '09

23 Mär '09

Hi, I am running grml 2008.11 on my harddisk (installed with grml2hd). Everything works perfectly except that I am having problem with sound. I can watch video with mplayer but I don't hear the sound. I also can't hear the sound when openning mp3 with mplayer. The same thing as Flash plugin for Firefox. Please advise me. Thanks, -- Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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madwifi for grml-small
by Josh Lawrence 23 Mär '09

23 Mär '09

Hello everyone, Last night I installed grml-small on my laptop to give it a spin (had been using the larger version of grml). I needed to install madwifi drivers, but none were available. uname -r tells me that I'm running 2.6.26, but the madwifi modules available are of 2.6.23 and earlier. module-assistant was not able to build the modules b/c the source was not available in the repos. Can you give me any tips as to how to get this working? It's not a major issue at all, I can always go back to the larger version, but it still would be nice to know where I'm going wrong. Thanks all! Josh -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

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Re: [Grml] GRML for VMware player
by Keith Hinton 22 Mär '09

22 Mär '09

The version of Grml should just ork fine (but you'll need to have a vm made first for it) perhaps a better question might be, "Is there a GRML Virtual Machine?" In wich case, The grml team is not responsible for finding one of ryou. Those are Vmware appliances normally. Regards, --Keith On 3/22/09, grml-request(a)mur.at <grml-request(a)mur.at> wrote: > Send Grml mailing list submissions to > grml(a)mur.at > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > grml-request(a)mur.at > > You can reach the person managing the list at > grml-owner(a)mur.at > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Grml digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. grml for vmware player (Josh) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:17:24 -0600 > From: "Josh" <jkenn337(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Grml] grml for vmware player > To: "grml" <grml(a)mur.at> > Message-ID: <57126BAE413347498D71D843A77AACAE@YOURGHQGU4MTYI> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > hi, > > Is there a version of grml1.1 and grml2008.11 for vmware player so I can run > it and windows at the same time? > > Josh >

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grml for vmware player
by Josh 22 Mär '09

22 Mär '09

hi, Is there a version of grml1.1 and grml2008.11 for vmware player so I can run it and windows at the same time? Josh

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How to obtain grml kernels, and other grml components
by Keith Hinton 21 Mär '09

21 Mär '09

Depending upon what components I want in the plain Debian system, how to I obtain these? I.e. If I want Grml's owrking kernel, what should I do to obtain that? And is it the Linux-source or Linux-image that I'd be looking for? Or would grml krenl just install, all symlinks taken care of, etc. What I love about grml's kernel, is I don't have to bother compiling it as all my favorite options like hibernate are already there, etc. And the hardware detection is super great. Otherwise, the question then would be: If I wanted screen, etc, that ships with grml, what suggestions would you folks suggest? I haven't used grml in so many years that now I find it hard to figure out what to do, plus the repos now use Git.:). Regards, --Keith

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

16 Mär '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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Speech-Dispatcher and SMP (again)
by Keith Hinton 16 Mär '09

16 Mär '09

Hi, I have previously in the last year or so posted on this subject of Speech-Dispatcher and SMP. I had previously back when testing my friend Shaun's system thought that it was only to AMD Athlon X2 3800 plus dual-core processors. I found out, that I was wrong. About four weeks ago, I tested the latest stable GRML using the grml swspeak speechd boot option at the Isolinux boot prompt on my Intel laptop. My Fujitsu laptop is pretty new. Well, shortly there after, speech crashed, again. So, I did this: Speechd-up -v Grml uses Speechd-up 0.1, wich is extremely old and out-of-date. Even the last stable release contains severe bugs. The CVS builds contain latest bug fixes. In edition to this, I discovered that GRML was using an RC version (not stable!) version of Speech-Dispatcher! Why is this? The issues seem to be caused when using Espeak-generic, and speechd-up 0.1, and Speech-Dispatcher. whether it is Speech-Dispatcher itself though, or simply Speechd-up, I don't know. In any case, I strongly suggest the espeakup interface over the Speechd-up interface (to the point of you folks ripping it completely out) It is odd though, because I thought that at least Speech-Dispatcher would contain some improvements? They were fixing SMP bugs last time I checked. Although if it is an RC version, I am not surprised. Although it may very well be an old version of Speechd-up itself. I will perform another test, on March 20, when I have some time. This time, I'll attempt to execute an instance of the Speechd-up software by typing speechd-up again, to see if it is the Dispatcher process crashing. I will also find out if there are any speech-dispatcher log levels generated through output of log contents (if any). Because Speech-Dispatcher is an interface wich uses the TCP/IP protocol, and is a client/server model, if it was Speechd-up crashing, and not Speech-Dispatcher, then it will probably generate some form of client/module disconnection in the log files. I will report back hear with more test results. Regards, --Keith

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Questions for new grml2usb
by T o n g 15 Mär '09

15 Mär '09

Hi, 1st of all, congratulations on the freshly-written grml2usb! Now my most important question, does grml2usb wipe the existing content of the installation device? Further, - can grml2usb install to a partition instead of a device? - can grml2usb make active the installation partition? - can grml2usb make an existing active partition bootable? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Kernel configuration PREEMPT
by Lars-Erik Helander 12 Mär '09

12 Mär '09

I have been using grml for a couple of days and I am very happy with it so far. The reason I started to use grml was that I discovered that the grml kernel was configured with the PREEMPT option. This makes it suitable for audio applications and even if the preempt characteristics you get with an RT-kernel is "better" the PREEMPT option of the vanilla kernel seems to be "good enough". With grml I get both a system that is easy to configure to me needs, boots off a USB stick and has a PREEMPT kernel :). I have looked at most distros out there and it is very rare to find ones that comes with a PREEMPT kernel as standard, so this makes me wonder why the grml team choosed to provide PREEMPT as a standard configuration. Anyone that knows this and wants to share why grml is using a PREEMPT kernel? Going forward, will the PREEMPT configuration option remain as standard in grml or might that just suddenly change? Kind Regards /Lars

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Adding packages
by Lars-Erik Helander 11 Mär '09

11 Mär '09

I am new to grml and I hope someone would be able to help me on this topic. I am running grml off a USB stick with a persistent home. I am using a number of packages not available in grml so I put these in a "debs" directory on the root of my live partition (showing up under /live/image/debs) and use the debs boot option. This works fine and all these packages gets installed when I boot. Problem 1: Adding another package to the "debs" directory Since the /live/image tree is mounted read-only I cannot add/remove any .deb files in the "debs" directory. What I do now is that I boot some other system than by USB booted grml system; mounts the USB stick and copy/remove files to/from the "debs" directory; boot from the USB stick. I would like to be able to do this without having to start some other system, but do this in the system booted from the USB stick. Is there a method that would allow me to do that. Problem 2: Avoid installation at boot The above method (putting .deb files in the "debs" directory) is very useful for finding out the packages you need to have. Once you know what packages you would need than you would be better off with a method that would not require you to install the packages on each boot, but that these packages came pre-installed. A natural way would be to either add these packages to the live system package set somehow. As I can see the live system consist of a squashfs file and a file that points out the name of this file. Is there a way to either extend the existing squashfs file or to add some additional squashfs (or other fs-type) file that will be mounted along the original squashfs file? Kind Regards /Lars

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packages with grml?
by Josh 11 Mär '09

11 Mär '09

Hi, I successfully got grml1.1 installed and working with a doubleTalk synthesizer. can you tell me what packages are installed and howw to set up networking? Also what text based word processors spreadsheets and audio editors internet browsers and email clients are there for grml? Josh

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One extra thing about obtaining kernel
by Keith Hinton 08 Mär '09

08 Mär '09

I forgot, In my last post I didn't mention: What I want to do is get the kernel installed without too much configuration or compilation in the plain Debian system. I also hope that I won't have to go configuring netowrks/interfaces manually, I'm not sure just how powerful grml-debootstrap is. What suggestions do you have? I'll probably just edit the configuration file, and get everything in place and then run whatever. Should I go with the linux-image, or linux-source deb files (what's easyer?) Whatever advice on this process specifically other than just editing grml-debootstrap's configuration file would be helpful. Installing a stable lenny would be good, so that I can receive Debain security patches, etc. I'd like to get a plain-debian installed, but have all of the accessibility of grml like Speakup, and other necesary things installed. Whatever I can do, I'd like to know. Installing a plain Debian system sounds fun! Can't wait. Regards, --Keith

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how to obtain working grml kernel packages
by Keith Hinton 08 Mär '09

08 Mär '09

Mika, Thanks for the messages on the digest of GRML. i have decided to use debootstrap to install a plain Debian system. You mentioned I could take a known to-work grml kernel. How would I do this for use in the plain Debian system? It would make things pretty easy then, because Speakup is already part of the kernel. You mentioned on iRC as well that you use Debian packages? I assume an aptitude update; aptitude install speakup; espeak; espeakup, etc? Thanks. Regards, --Keith

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Re: [Grml] Using VMware Workstation on GRML Linux
by Keith Hinton 08 Mär '09

08 Mär '09

> On 3/2/09 12:27 AM Keith Hinton wrote: > >> The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware >> services on boot of GRML itself? > > You unpack the tar (to /opt/vmware), and then run vmware-install.pl, > which copies the files to the right places /usr/lib/vmware/, > /etc/vmware/, /etc/init.d/...). > > So basically I would say the procedure is the same as with any other > linux distribution. Okay, but is the vmware-install.pl script part of the origenal vmware.com workstation tarball hear? Or is this some Debian-specific package? > >> I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have >> gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation. > > Gnome should have any kind of autostart. You have to spesify a window manager to grml-x, correct prior to useing it? As in grml-x Gnome? Regards, --Keith > > Regards, > OJ > -- > The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day > they start making vacuum cleaners. LOL, that will be fun. I'm sure you'll be the first to get a microsoft cleaner.> > >> Regards, >> OJ

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daily.grml.org questions
by Keith Hinton 08 Mär '09

08 Mär '09

I have a question or so about the grml.org daily snapshots: I know that bugs can occur majorly, and all of that. But Has anyone thought of making full grml releases that are based off of Debian stable so that people can successfully run servers with grml if they choose, without being forced to install Debian?Just curious! Another question: Do the daily snapshots of GRML contain Speakup? Or, does only the GRML devel releases etc contain accessibility support? The daily grml page does not mention specifically if the visually impaired access is vailable in those builds. Regards, --Keith

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Using stable Debian brnaches for packages on GRML
by Keith Hinton 08 Mär '09

08 Mär '09

If you wish to use GRML as a hard disk system, what happens if you attempt to use stable Debian packages to avoid breaking things? Why Apache and stuff is included on a Debian-unstable system is beyond me. Especially because the software should not be included in the first place. People may get the idea that servers can be ran on grml! For a blind user that has discovered GRML, the user may go running programs/services never intended for use on GRML! What do you all think of this? I have read the Debian unstable FAQ, and the answer in that document is "Are you insaine? No!" To the question about "Should I run Debian-Sid on my server?" GRML includes Speakup accessibility, wich I require in my Linux kernels; and often don't have time to compile a Linux kernel, therefore I use GRML. Would I be better off installing a plain Debian system rather than GRML perhaps on my laptop When I get back in the next few weeks to set it up? Thanks! GRML is rather cool, but the fact that you folks have included services on it at all is a bit..concerning. What if grep or something was to break on GRML? Considering that you're based on the Sid branch. How about security related updates (wich are not provided for Debian-unstable packages) in the first place for users installing GRML directly to hard-drive? Despite GRML being an extremely cool Linux system, it is still based off Sid! Regards, --Keith

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

04 Mär '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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Using GRML2HD in a productive environment...
by Keith Hinton 04 Mär '09

04 Mär '09

How would GRML2hd be used in an productive environment necessarily? I'm curious about that. Also, in grml, if installed onto the hard-drive, I assume that I do not need to manually edit the network interfaces file owing to the use of the grml-netcard or grml-network scripts? The other question, is this. I have an Internet domain that I want GRML to be able to resolve to an IP address, or at least realize that the domain exists. So, hear is my question. What happens in grml if I add to resolv.conf: search "domain.org" without quotations, (assuming) that domain.org existed? The second question relating to resolv.conf, is how could I keep DHCP from overighting it? Thanks. Regards, --Keith

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to michael whapples
by Josh 03 Mär '09

03 Mär '09

hello, Could Michael whapples contact me off list at: jkenn337(a)gmail.com ? I am going to install grml onto a computer because I am practically forced to due to very limited resources this computer will definitely not run gnome and orca, and with a swap partition it will probably run vey slowly. So if I could have a link to a text file if one exists describing how to install grml to hard disc using grml2hd would be good. I only have so much time per day in tech class, my training program is winding down here and it wil be faster to follow a writeup on my netbook and follow its directions than listen to the audio walkthrough. Either that or I will have to take notes on the walkthrough tonight on my slate and refer to these notes in computer braille. Josh

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

03 Mär '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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Using VMware Workstation on GRML Linux
by Keith Hinton 03 Mär '09

03 Mär '09

I was wondering, how difficult it is to install the Gnome environment inside the GRML environment when installed onto a hard-disk drive? Probably an aptitude-install Gnome does it. However, Hear is what I was wanting to know. I have purchased the VMWare Workstation package, and have a registered serial number for it. It's a standard tar formatted file, with a Tar.GZ extention added onto the end of it. Extracting it isn't my problem. The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware services on boot of GRML itself? I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation. Could anyone contact me with instructions on this process? Thanks. Regards, --Keith

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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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voxin on grml
by josh 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

hi, can someone give instructions on installing tt-synth or voxin onto grml and getting it to work with speakup? Josh

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debian lenny from stable to unstable
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hello Mika, i have installed grml 1.1 onto a harddisk and done every week an update/ safe-upgrade with aptitude. In the file source.list are the lines for debian set to unstable. But now lenny ist stable, can i change the this lines in the source.list file to use a stable lenny with the functions of grml/stable? The the second is, that my cyberjack (0xc4b:0x0300) will not work with chipcardd4. The cjgeldkarte will work, but geldkarte loaded will only errors. I use aqmoney 0,6.3 with an chpcard-version and openhbic on an slackware 10.2, but i don't habe found these packages for grml/debian. and compiling the sources will produces only errors. It is very difficult to find the correct words in english, ist there an german grml-mailinglist? Regards. Dietmar

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Konsolen-Frontend fuer cdrtools
by Florian Rehnisch 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Moin, im IRC hatte vor einiger Zeit mal jemand gefragt, ob es nicht ein K3B fuer die Konsole gibt. Nun, es gibt gleich zwei Konsolenfrontends fuer die cdrtools: <http://bashburn.dose.se/> <http://cdw.sf.net/> Ob die cdrkit koennen? Und wenn schon. Nur mal als Anregung, -- flori

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grml upgrade to lenny stable?
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Hello, the grml is based on debian lenyy/sid and now lenny 5.0 is stable. Can i change the deb entry for lenne from unstable to stable to become grml with a stable debian lenny? or what must i do? Regards. Dietmar

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installing gnome on grml
by josh 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

hi, Is there an audio walkthrough on installing gnome on a grml system yet? Josh

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GRMLCFG working on 2008.11?
by Johannes Kastl 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '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 -- | 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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Booting 2008.11 takes 4 minutes!
by Hubert Gabler 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

I use grml 1.1 but wanted to test the new 2008.11 version. I noticed 2 very annoying features: When it reads "Searching for grml file, this might take a few seconds" in reality it takes 3:30 minutes before the program continues. But only to stop again at "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" for about 30 seconds. How can I avoid these stops in execution? I tried all the no....options (noautoconfig, nodhcp, noquick) but without any success. Any ideas? Hubert

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grml2hd no back-buttons
by wonderer 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hy, I use grml for a quite some time so I did not recognize this before, but there seems to be no "back" Buttons e.g. in grml2hd (and maybe other tools I did'nt tested yet) and sometimes it would be nice to jump back before write something to the config or if you forgot to "mark" something with the spacebar (marked it, but (_) instead of (*) ) and ESC also is not working. I did'nt not found any hints that this "issue" exist on the list so I wondering if this was wanted so... maybe this could be "fixed" with the next release?! best regards Henrik

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X11 forwarding
by Maurice McCarthy 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Right so Mika sorted my wlan and I've cured a sound defect myself. There is no urgency whatsoever in this, but I'll ask out of curiosity. The last nuisance puzzling me is X11 forwarding inside my simple home lan. Sounds silly perhaps but I'm just learning how to network for myself. I can X11 forward from my secure shell account based in London: Thus user@laptop$ ssh -fX moss(a)mythic-beasts.com xclock gives me an xclock. This tells me that at least my Xserver and ssh on the laptop must be configured right for X11 forwarding. The home lan is simply the laptop a wireless router BTVOYAGER2110 and my trusty old Pentium II PC. The PII is wired into the router so communication between the laptop and the PII is through the router. There is no longer a monitor connected to the PII. user@laptop$ ssh -fX user@PII xclock gives "Error: Can't open display:" followed by a blank line. ssh has failed to set the environmental variable $DISPLAY. It is exactly the same if I put a wire directly between PII and the laptop and configure a static network. The laptop is running grml-2008.11 with apt pointed at Lenny but the PII run grml-1.0 pointed at Etch. user@laptop$ ssh -Xvvv user@PII gives this output after accepting the password debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/bin/X11/xauth list :0.0 2>/dev/null debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug2: channel 0: request x11-req confirm 0 debug2: client_session2_setup: id 0 debug2: channel 0: request pty-req confirm 1 debug3: tty_make_modes: ospeed 38400 debug3: tty_make_modes: ispeed 38400 debug1: Sending environment. There is then a long list of env ignored including the display user@PII$ echo $DISPLAY Gives a blank output. user@PII$ export DISPLAY=:10 # This is poor practice as it can obviate # encryption but I tried it anyhow as # I'm only at home. user@PII$ xclock & and the xclock shows up in htop but it does not display on the laptop. So the basic problem is that ssh is not setting the display though it ought to. I must have a misconfiguration somewhere on the PII. .ssh/config reads thus Host * # I know this in not secure. ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes AllowTcpForwarding yes -- Once again, thanks for any help Moss

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intel iwl3945
by Maurice McCarthy 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hi all Wonder if any one has a suggestion for me. I've wiped vista off my laptop, an Acer Aspire 5920. and installed Schlutenscheisser. I've got couple of problems but I'll just mention the wifi for now. On boot something odd is happening to the wifi. As soon as the firmware loads a hardware kill switch is activated. $ dmesg | grep iwl [ 16.656573] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks [ 16.656573] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation [ 16.656573] iwl3945 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 16.656573] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG [ 16.805680] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels [ 16.825420] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs' [ 34.238805] Modules linked in: loop vboxdrv fuse ipv6 uvcvideo compat_ioctl32 videodev joydev v4l1_compat evdev video output arc4 serio_raw ecb iwl3945 firmware_class mac80211 cfg80211 battery button ac snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm acer_wmi led_class snd_seq_dummy wmi snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq i2c_i801 snd_timer snd_seq_device iTCO_wdt pcspkr i2c_core snd soundcore intel_agp rtc_cmos iTCO_vendor_support snd_page_alloc rtc_core rtc_lib usb_storage usbhid ff_memless libusual firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t sg sdhci ohci1394 mmc_core ricoh_mmc ieee1394 tg3 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan squashfs sqlzma unlzma [ 39.148650] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode [ 39.273994] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch [ 46.197829] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch [ 50.178462] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch [ 54.187015] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch [ 235.037523] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch [ 237.703345] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch I have trawled the internet for help and have place a file called iwl3945 in /etc/modprobe.d The file contains these two lines alias wlan0 iwl3945 options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1 This was supposed to prevent the hardware switch from operating but even if I unload and reload the module iwl3945 it gets HW killed again. :-( Any ideas, please? -- Thanks in advance Moss

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some questions.
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hello, for a time i have installed the grml 1.1 on two harddisk and onto a usb- stick (GB). With the commands aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade i look for the newest program-updates. But now i have some questions: 1. What is the sudo password for the first User, i mean the user, that tehe grml2hd-script will create (i have changed the configfile for my needs). 2. How can i upgrade from grml 1.1 to grml 2008, especielly the kernel and scripts? 3. What can i do to become a better performance on my usb-stick, shall i create a fstab for my needs, so that the temoraryfiles are into the ram and so. Are there any examples. 4. After updating/upgrading with aptitude and the end of the procedur im become an error "update-initramfs can not create/update initrd ..., use -t switch". Shall i use the command update-initramfs -d -t to fix this or is there a configfile? 5. If i log in as user x and start lynx, surf with lynx to an audiostream (mp3/rm or so) or to an internetradiostream, the mplayer will start, but nothing is to hear, mplayer will stop and lynx is back. The sound works and if i start the mplayer with the directlink to the radiostream, that will work. Any ideas? 6. How can i addd old debian packages, especielly i want to use the aqmony 0.6.3, the openhbci and the libchipcard version, which works with the old aqmoney 0.6.3. I have tryied to compile the programs, but the gcc 4.3.x will produce a lot of errors and i am not so familiar with c an c++ to fix this errors. thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar

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How to create custom xorg.conf?
by glenn greenfield 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hi and thanks for creating such a great live cd! I have managed to build a custom grml using the fabulous grml-live scripts. I've included the Nvidia driver and b43 firmware and the LXDE desktop. This is all working perfectly. One thing I have not been able to accomplish however is setting SHMConfig to "on" automatically. I'm not using grml as an HDD installation but rather from live cd booted toram from a USB device. If I could figure out how to automatically edit xorg.conf that would be great. I need this because I use touchfreeze to stop the touchpad from accepting input as I type on my laptop. I do see that SHMConfig is already in xorg.conf but it is commented. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Option "SHMConfig" "on" Thanks again. -- glenn greenfield

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new possible solution for blind grml users and x programs
by Doug Smith 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

To whom it may concern: \ I have found something that I think shows some promise for use by all the people who use speakup and do not wish to go to a graphical user environment in order just to get on line. The program is called twin. This stands for text mode windowing environment. It can be found at http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/ There is a detailed tutorial as well as a sample configuration file includєd with the program. However, it makes little sense to me as I have no experience configuring x displays. What I am trying to do with this programし is to get it to work in the following way: First of all, interact with x programs as it says it will, but with the result that it will: bring the output of those programs back to a reぐular tty display where speakup is active. However, with all the attaching, detaching, running on x servers, display numbers and the rest, I am totally lost. If some person here can help me in configuring this program to work as a text mode solution to a graphical problem, I will be most greatful. Thank you in advance. Doug Smith -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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grml1.1 and the gnome desktop
by Josh zxc 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hi, Does grml1.1 come with the latest gnome desktop? if not, can gnome be set up with grml to run under grml and started automatically? Josh

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[PATCH] bootoption findiso
by Michael Schierl 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi mika, Hi all, I liked it when I read in the announcement that grml-2008.11 supports a fromiso bootoption. I wanted to use it for my USB thumb drive, so that I can add the .iso file to it (so that I can burn a CD if I need one) and as well boot from it (without requiring twice the space). However, it did not work as I expected: - it does not search for the ISO, but require the exact device name - it does not expose the ISO partition to the booted system So I patched the initramfs so that it supports another bootoption, "findiso". When booting with findiso=/grml_2008.11.iso, it will look for that .iso file on all disks where it usually looks for the .squashfs file. When it is found, the disk containing the iso is read-only mounted as /live/findiso (and exposed there after boot completed). The squashfs file is searched inside that ISO file then. It worked well in my tests, but of course that does not guarantee it is bug-free. :) I attached both the patch and a script I used (in a CD-booted GRML) to apply the patch (and modify menu.lst), if anyone else wants to use it with the current stable GRML. regards, Michael diff -rup initramfs_orig/scripts/live initramfs/scripts/live --- initramfs_orig/scripts/live 2008-12-06 12:33:00.676619000 +0000 +++ initramfs/scripts/live 2008-12-06 12:52:05.938629568 +0000 @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ Arguments () export HOSTNAME LIVECONF ;; + findiso=*) + FINDISO="${ARGUMENT#findiso=}" + export FINDISO + ;; + isofrom=*|fromiso=*) FROMISO="${ARGUMENT#*=}" export FROMISO @@ -1365,6 +1370,17 @@ check_dev () if is_supported_fs ${fstype} then mount -t ${fstype} -o ro,noatime "${devname}" ${mountpoint} || continue + if [ -n "${FINDISO}" ] + then + if [ -f ${mountpoint}${FINDISO} ]; then + umount ${mountpoint} + mkdir /live/findiso -p + mount -t ${fstype} -o ro,noatime "${devname}" /live/findiso + loopdevname=$(setup_loop "/live/findiso${FINDISO}" "loop" "/sys/block/loop*" "" '') + devname="${loopdevname}" + mount -t iso9660 -o ro,noatime "${devname}" ${mountpoint} + fi + fi if is_live_path ${mountpoint} && \ ([ "${skip_uuid_check}" ] || matches_uuid ${mountpoint}) diff -rup initramfs_orig/scripts/live-bottom/05mountpoints initramfs/scripts/live-bottom/05mountpoints --- initramfs_orig/scripts/live-bottom/05mountpoints 2008-12-06 14:30:05.486694000 +0000 +++ initramfs/scripts/live-bottom/05mountpoints 2008-12-06 14:41:26.346606201 +0000 @@ -38,4 +38,11 @@ if [ -n "$MOUNTED_ON" ] ; then echo " -> Mounted live system on $MOUNTED_ON">/dev/console fi +# Move findiso directory to the new root filesystem so that programs there can get at it. +if [ -d /live/findiso -a ! -d /root/live/findiso ] +then + mkdir -p /root/live/findiso + mount -n --move /live/findiso /root/live/findiso +fi + log_end_msg #!/bin/sh -e # Create an initramfs and a menu.lst that can be loaded from Grub on a USB # key, where the ISO file is stored in the root directory # (c) 2008 Michael Schierl [ -n "$1" ] cp findiso.patch /tmp rm -rf /tmp/initramfs /tmp/x || true mkdir /tmp/initramfs rm -rf $1/boot/grml_2008.11 || true mkdir -p $1/boot/grml_2008.11 cd /tmp/initramfs zcat /live/image/boot/grml/initrd.gz | cpio -i patch -p1 </tmp/findiso.patch find | cpio -H newc -o | gzip --best >$1/boot/grml_2008.11/initrd.gz sed s#boot/grml#boot/grml_2008.11# /live/image/boot/grub/menu.lst | \ sed "s#linux26#linux26 findiso=/grml_2008.11.iso#" | \ sed s#grub/splash#grml_2008.11/splash# | \ sed s#-rc1## | \ head -n 56 >$1/boot/grml_2008.11/menu.lst cp /live/image/boot/grml/linux26 /live/image/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz $1/boot/grml_2008.11 echo Done. Don"'"t forget to copy grml_2008.11.iso to $1.

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problems with hardware autodetection has been resolved, but ow to install Gnome?
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Dear core developers, I successfully solved problem with hardware autodetection, but how to install Gnome? Is it possible to install Gnome while installing GRML from A live Cd by using grml2hd script or some programmers limitations are included so Gnome will not be awailable for installation? While i tried to install gnome by using apt-get install gnome All packages were successfully downloaded from The Interne. But when system displaied retrieving bug reports, the progress came from 0 to 100 percent. But after this, system asked me if i wanted to upgrade somethink, i ansferred yes but after this, apt-get stopped to work, or this operation can take so many minutes? Because i forced terminated by using ctrl c key, i was not able to continue, because when retrieving bug reports appeared, zero percent progress has been displaied and system stopped to work, so i had to terminated apt-get by pressing ctrl c. So. How to install Gnome?

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serious problem with hardware autodetection while installing GRML by using grml2hd script
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Dear core developers of GRML, I would like to inform You, that i experienced serious problem with hardware autodetection. When i finished installing grml by using grml2hd script, the system gives me varning, that sound mixer can not be set and all plug and play devices, such as USB compatible braille display can not be used. The main reason of this is, that special script for configuring xserver, which can be launched during installation could not finish it's work. Sudo displaied some error message and i had to terminate The algorithm of program for configuring xserver. Hardware and service configuration tool did not caused errors, so my pleasment is, if You could find the cause, why sudo could not work and tool for configuring hardware for xserver could not executed it's job successfully. Because xserver will be unfortunately probably executed by default, and i do not know, how to force kill it, if killall gdm will help me, how to activate console, CTRL altf1 do not work. When login window appear. And i do not know, how to remove xserver when booting from A live CD. Please, if You could enable option, install for visually impaired users to grml2hd script, so no xserver will be installed and user would have possibility to start swspeak Speakup screen reader and could install gnome for his need, everythink would be very good. I solved boot problems, i started to using smart boot manager and i would like to recommend this boot manager to all visually impaired users, because this boot manager can be installed to A floppy and after booting from this floppy, user can choose which operating system to boot and boot manager will not install on A hard drive. GAG will install on A floppy, but installation process must be perform in the mode, when gag is started from floppy disk. And installation can not be probably made to A floppy. so if You do not want to modifi Your first track of Your harddisk, I Am highly recommending You to use smart boot manager, the errors with hardware can not becaused by the fact, that i booted by using this boot manager. Smart boot manager is very little program, and installation can be made from running Windows operating system, but while using DOS prompt. But user has full control during installation, other boot managers must be installed very often from The boot media and screen readers are not able to work in those programs. So please, if core developers of grml2hd script could repair bug while xserver hardware configuration starts, it would be ok. GRML2script is recommending users to ansver yes to perform this task, from A live CD. It is paradox situation, that Grml autodetection algorithms are working ammazingly while booting it like A live Cd, but after installing it on A harddrive, hardware autodetection algorithms are not able to configure hardware so GRML can not use plug and play compatible devices. I will probably have to reinstall whole GRML without ansvering yes to a question related to autoconfigure of grmlx, because script for installing clean debian seems to me be more complicated that grml2hd script questions. And i would like to use grml, because there are some modifications and never modules and more admin tools. Even server related programs are included in The GRML package, so visually impaired user could theoretically work like a server administrator, if HTTP and FTP server tools are programmed to be usable from shell or console or atleast from Gnome. So only user knowledge will be limit, because speakup, even yasr is included in Grml package. Please, core developers of grml, do not think about me, that I Am only listing crytism, i want to constructively cooperate with You. But because i AM not so highly intelligent like core developers, it is complex for me to repair scripts and adjusting hardware configuration by other way, than by grml2hd script. Firstly, i will have to ban installation of xwindow. Because if i can not kill xwindow by altering console, i will not be able to work.

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2008.11 & Acer Aspire One A110L
by Michael Weber 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hi, ich hab hier folgendes Szenario, Acer Aspire One A110L Netbook (8GB SSD, 512MB), die Installation der letzten grml-Version über USB gebootet und mit grml2hd installiert: lief einwandfrei. Soweit so gut. Mit 2008.11 kann ich per USB ohne Probleme booten, d.h. der Stick und die Installation da drauf sind OK, wenn ich aber die 2008.11 vom Stick boote und mit grml2hd auf das Netbook installiere funktioniert das auch erstmal problemlos, aber beim nächsten boot paniced der Kernel. Wenn ich mit lilo installiere ist der MBR wenigstens installiert und das ganze steigt erst im Kernel aus, wenn ich die Installation mit grub mache muss ich von USB booten, auf die installierte Version chrooten und den MBR neu schreiben, sonst gibts einen "Error 2". Aus den Meldungen des Kernels beim panic werde ich nicht wirklich schlau, ich tippe aber gerne den Hex-Tracecode ab bei Bedarf. Letzte Meldung ist "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!". Ich bin kein Kernel-Hacker und bevor ich da jetzt stundenlang rumsuche und google frage ich hier lieber nach. Jemand eine Idee? Ich mach auch gerne den Testdödel fürs Acer Aspire One allgemein, ihr müsst mir nur reinwerfen, was ihr braucht ... Gruß Michael 'Bytewurm' Weber -- Michael Weber, CEO, http://www.rising-systems.de/, weber(a)rising-systems.de rising systems networks GmbH, Elisabethstraße 44, 40217 Düsseldorf fon +49 211 903294-0, direct -121, fax +49 211 903294-444 VAT DE 192305838 * DUNS 315108956 * TAX 5 106/5723/2489 * REG HRB 35549

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Re: [Grml] Grml is mmazing Linux distribution
by Maurice McCarthy 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

There is something wrong here. If you cannot boot your grml installation on the hard disk then you have been trying to install gnome into a running liveCD. Then you will have used up all the RAM. Have I not understood properly? Moss PS Janusz, your replies have been coming to me personally and so I've been quoting you in full in order that others at grml(a)mur.at may understand. ================== Janusz wrote: I have founded, that Grml is the best linux operating system distro with many administrative applications. In the past, approximately before 10 years or sooner, visually impaired users were not able to use such applications like standalone .bootable .iso images for rescue partitions. Those tools are very often standalone .iso images which are containing applications and those applications are even shareware applications. Thanks to Grml, which is containing The latest awailable opensource and high quality administrative tools, and brltty, yasr and speakup are included, visually impaired user can have The maximum control on their linux installation Unfortunately, i can not finish installation of Gnome by using apt-get install gnome After downloading, when retreiving bug reports appears, it stop at The 0 percent and it halts. Very interesting think. It is probably because there somethink wronk with my installation. ============

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Re: [Grml] How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive?]
by Maurice McCarthy 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Janusz wrote: Thank You for ammazing cheatcodes. I Am having troubles. i can not boot, probably it is because my EXT2 partition with Grlinux installation is number like partition 5, it is because i had to create logical partition and inside this i had to create EXT2 partition. I checked, if EXT2 file system is readable by using other Linux distros, and yes, there are normal folders and files. MM: That's right Janusz. The first logical partition is /dev/sda5 by convention. Ntldrl will probably not able to boot bootsect.sda3 file, there are two errors. Firstly, computer halts and when i Am pressing keys, internal sound speakers beeps, so keyboard buffer is full, it is a known signal, that computer halted. And when i replaced c:\ by \bootsect.dat, computer halts and when i press enter, it starts to reboot. My bootsect.sda is having size 4,5 KB, and there are machine instructions, so i think, that i copied right boot data file to NTFS. MM: This is difficult without being able to see the errors. I'll have a think about it. Grub can not boot to Grml, and while i using live Cd and mounting SDA\5, there are files, apt-get is working, but i can not log as my user name specified during grml2hd installation process. And it is probably inpossible to boot from live CD, mounting SDA5 device and then triing to install somethink. MM: I don't understand why you cannot log in as a normal user. There is a file in /etc/grml/ where the configuration is stored for using grml2hd in a non-interactive way. This file can be edited in at your leisure and then grml2hd can be done something like this (except I'm not sure about the exact capitalised words): # GRML2HD-NONINTERACTIVE grml2hd partition=/dev/sdsa5 mbr=/dev/sda5 filesystem=ext3 user=janusz MM: This ought to install OK - but I've said that before. No,It's seems to me, that i will have to delete my logical and extended partition and resize my primari NTFS partition to original size and i will have to give it up. I have done my best. Grml2hd script is little confusing, it gaves me several questions and unfortunately, asked me twice, where to install boot loader and for my user name and password. Eventhough i answerred for those question for twice time with a same answer, somethink probably gone wronk. That i can not switch users. MM: I'm wondering if swspeak can only have a single user. I'll investigate and ask the developers if I cannot find out. You have tried very hard and it seems that there might be some possible improvement in clarity for blind users in the grml2hd script. Best Wishes Moss

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[Fwd: Re: How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive?]
by Maurice McCarthy 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Dear Janusz, Yes from the LiveCD if you do hd it will boot from the hard disk. Similarly hd1 or hd2 if you have two hard disks. I am glad it worked out OK in the end. I attach a file with all of the booting options. Don't know why they call it cheat codes since it is not cheating. If you can negotiate your way around it is possible to boot sda2 from the cd using grub. I'll will try to work out the recipe for you to try. you have to get to a grub commandline (so a grub boot floppy would do it) and then do grub>configfile (hd0,1)/boot/menu.lst (hd0,1) is grub talk for sda2. This will bring up the grub menu and you just press enter to boot grml. There is a good method to make a copy of your XP partition with ntfsclone. You need a back up medium such as a usb hard drive to save the disk image on. It compresses all empty space. It is better than partimage but you still need to back up the mbr separately with a dd command. Thank you Moss PS Try moving the timeout command to the top of boot.ini You should then have 30 seconds to see the choice of what to boot grml or XP. Perhaps it needs to be longer. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [Grml] How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive? From: "Mgr. Janusz Chmiel" <chmiel(a)phil.muni.cz> Date: Sat, January 3, 2009 5:40 pm To: "Maurice McCarthy" <moss(a)mythic-beasts.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear syr, Do not be sad, i have installed GRML successfully, but unfortunately, ntldr can not boot to this system. I was not able to use the parameters for using parted to create logical partition, i had to create extended partition first, then to create ext2 file system inside this partition, inside logical partition. Copy process during installation has no problems, everythink is stored on Ext2 file system, but because i did not want to corrupt my Windows XP installation, i installed lilo to SDA2. I will try to use external boot manager to try to boot to The grml. But i will probably had to use other linux kernel from Cd to mount Ext2 partition and i will try to use system from this kernel, but it is not probably good idea. Please, has GRML official live Cd option to boot from hard disk? I do not have problems with sound cart, i can type grml swspeak, but only from live CD. My sound cart has been automatically detected. So thank You for Your help. Yours instructions have been very nice tutorial for me, i was able to successfully create partition for GRML and i was also able to copy bootsect.sda3. So i will try to find out, if Ext2 partition is containing readable installation or if i only created non functional havoc. Windows XP is intouched and can be normally used without crashes. So thank You again for Your detailed instructions about parted.

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Re: [Grml] How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive?
by Maurice McCarthy 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Janusz Sorry, I did not read your email too well. I think I am tired. Do you managed to format the whole hard drive to ext3. grml also has rescue tools for such a case, though you will have lost data. If there is something precious to you lost then look at the documentation for ddr-help, ddrescue, gddrescue and testdisk. Sorry not to be of more help just now. Testdisk can see lost partitions are try to restore them. It can read the files on lost partions if they are not too badly damaged. I do not have a lot of experience with these tools. Moss

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Re: [Grml] How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive?
by Maurice McCarthy 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

> So if script GRML2hd will ask me, i can press g letter to install Group. > If > i can be openheart to You, Grml2hd script is good, but if ok and cancel > choices are awailable and user do not know, when press which letter, g for > group, or other letter for lilo, it is confusing, atleast for me. > It will be letter l for lilo, I think Moss

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documentation
by Josh 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Hi, Could someone upload the grml documentation to sendspace? www.sendspace.com ? it's fine if it's in a .tar file I can unzip those on windows using izarc. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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Re: [Grml] How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive?
by Maurice McCarthy 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Janusz Thank you for the complement but I'm not really an expert. I've just made all the same mistakes that you make! Don't worry. Windows is blessedly stupid. ntldr will boot anything you tell it to. Put in your grml CD and boot it as normal or just type failsafe as it will be faster. Then mount the Windows partition like this: # ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 Now we copy the boot sector of the grml partition to the root directory of the Windows partition. Make sure the typing is correct when you do # dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/mnt/sda1/bootsect.sda3 bs=512 count=1 Use your text editor to add the next 2 lines to the bottom of boot.ini C:\bootsect.sda3="grml" timeout=30 Then reboot into Windows: # shutdown -r now ntldr should now give you a choice of booting windows or grml. Hope this works for you Please let us know Moss Janusz wrote: > So if script GRML2hd will ask me, i can press g letter to install Group. > If > i can be openheart to You, Grml2hd script is good, but if ok and cancel > choices are awailable and user do not know, when press which letter, g for > group, or other letter for lilo, it is confusing, atleast for me. > > I have made big error yesterday, that i did not wait for Your professional > advice, i used parted to create EXT3 partition, GRML2hd even formatted > even > it for me, but i have made error while pressing key for choosing, where to > install boot loader, so i had EXT3 filesystem with all files, but i had no > chance to boot. Do You think, that it could be made some modiffication to > boot.ini, so ntldr module could load The kernel from EXT3 partition? > Ubuntu > can be loaded, but i Am aware, that The module, which ntldr is calling is > different from the kernel. So my idea is to really make floppy drive and I > would like to boot from EXT3 partition. I could even use Opensuse live CD > and GUI oriented partition editor for creating unallocated space, then to > format it in GRML, and install to this partition by using Grml2HD script. > You gave me detailed instructions for resizing partition in GRML, i > unfortunately started to experiment myself yesterday, i used parted and > parted asked me, for start and end of partition, i did not know, which > number to press, i typed first number 1 second above 52000, so i created > partition in lenght above 52 GB, it was not A problem, because i > accidentally corrupted NTFS partition by using gparted while trying to > create partition in extended partition and i created one big unallocated > space on my harddrive so my data has been gone forever. FOrtunately, i > have > made backups of my data. > > So I will install group on A floppy and i will try to edit configuration > file in this floppy to boot GRML without corrupting Windows XP. > > Thank You again for Your support and the fact, that i wanted to experiment > myself caused loss of data and i made havoc on my harddrive. But EXT3 > partition really contained The GRML installation without problems at The > end. > > The kindness regards. > > Janusz Chmiel > >

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How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive?
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Dear users and developers, I downloaded The latest stable release of GRML, and i Am very satisfied with this distro so i would like to use it on my harddrive. But I Am having problems. I have one IDE harddrive with capacity 55,6 GB, with one NTFS partition in size 21,4 GB. In The rest of my harddrive, i created extended partition, but no EXT3 or other, i only created extended partition, no formatting it. When I Am running GRML2hd script, The script is giving me information, that there is partition and free space above 34 GB. No NTFS word is occurring in this information. So: Will GRMLhd2 format this extended partition automatically without destroiing my NTFS existing one? Or i have done a mistake, that i created extended partition? If so, i can remove this extended partition, but please, what i could do to install GRML to A hard disk with Windows Xp on it? Grml2hd script is also giving me question, where to install boot manager. If to MBR or to other place. How to confirm The right choice by keyboard press, i AM visually impaired user. Thank You for Your information. I do not like Windows Xp installations and removing wrongly created operating systems installation by using partition managers. So i would like to perform installation of GRML by right way. Thank You for Your help. With kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel

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grml work
by Josh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

hi, i'll use grml as soon as i learn how to use it. I'm glad I'm going back to the colorado center for the blind so I can learn computer braille and write down notes and stuff. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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grml 1.1 works!
by Josh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Hi, I found a linux distribution that works! it's an older one with software speech. it's grml 1.1. and it works good. So, vibuntu may not work on this machine, but oralux and grml 1.1 work fine. ok, so now I have a question. can someone tell me, keeping in mind that I have never used linux before in my whole entire life, I am a complete newby to grml and commandline linux. But if I am going to be a network administrator I will need to learn some kind of Linux distribution, what matters is that it has a Linux kernel which of course, grml has it because it's Linux... so, can someone give me an introduction to it? my wife's machine has a virus in it called c:\windows\system32\drmclienp.dll . pay attention to spelling. so I want to delete this file and therefore get rid of the virus. but windows will not let me access the file. so how do I do this using grml linux 1.1? Also, will voxin work with grml linux? And also, can someone tell me how to partition my hard drive and install grml Linux1.1 alongside Windows xp? grml1.1 uses ESpeak for speech. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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www.linux.com is great for grml stuff
by Josh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Hi, Well I am now sold! from now on I will use grml and oralux as my operating systems. oralux is outdated but makes a great audio desktop. grml well? as the article says, "it just works!" oh and I learned that I can also install gnome with orca on grml if I want a desktop. and I imagine IBM tts as well. If I could somehow get to that documentation set up my wireless in grml1.1 and use voxin with it that would be great! Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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reading documentation in grml?
by Josh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Hi, Where is the documentation at in the grml1.1 cd? I can't find it when I browse the cd using windows xp. and I certainly can't get to it using grml live-cd itself because I know nearly nothing about grml commands. so I currently don't know how to read the documentation in it. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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some linux distributions?
by Josh 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Hi, Does anyone know why oralux and grml1.1 work, but grml 2008.11 and ubuntu 8.10 do not work on my computer? Why do some Linux distributions work, but others do not? or is there no definite answer to this? Also, how frequently or how susceptible is Linux to getting viruses and rootkits and trogens and worms? Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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documentation in braille?
by Josh 31 Dez '08

31 Dez '08

Hi, Is there any linux books that I could get in braille? Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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word processor with spellcheck and spreadsheet?
by Josh 31 Dez '08

31 Dez '08

hi, Is there a good wordProcessor and spreadsheet in grml 1.1? I still am wondering why grml2008.1 won't work. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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voxin on grml 1.1?
by Josh 31 Dez '08

31 Dez '08

Hi, Once I can get this grml linux installed to the hard drive, can I? 1. remove the x-windows graphical environments because I don't need them. 2. remove all applications I don't need. 3. install voxin for use with speakup or brltty. 4. set up my wireless USB adapter so I can have internet access in grml command-line? 5. if I want x-windows gui, can I install gnome desktop with orca and use that? ubuntu doesn't want to work on here, so maybe gnome then will work with grml1.1? 6. once I got it all customized, including having automatic speech at startup, could I use some grml text-based software could to make my own custom linux live-cd/install cd? oh and I read that for text-mode 64mb of ram is recommended so this grml would work great on legacy machines, also. and doubleTalk hardware speech only costs $200 or so. so that's not bad either. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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grml 1.0?
by Josh 31 Dez '08

31 Dez '08

Hi, Does grml1.0 have accessibility for blind people? can I still use grml swspeak and then swspeak to get software speech going? I do not at this time have a DoubleTalk hardware serial-rs232 synthesizer so i need software speech. also does IBM-tts work with grml? Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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grml 1.1?
by Josh 31 Dez '08

31 Dez '08

Hi, Would grml1.1 maybe work on my older computer? also would IBM tts work with speakup in grml? Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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awesome problem
by Chaitat Piriyastit 31 Dez '08

31 Dez '08

Hi friends, I am using GRML 1.1 Linux that comes with AWESOME 2.2-rc1 (Digital Love). It is awesome except that I am having a small problem. Whenever I change the focus to another window, I have to press "enter" before I can actually do anything with that window. But sometimes, I don't have to. Do you have any idea? I have also tried the latest version and the problem still exists. I think it is a bug in the version of awesome that has been integrated with grml. References: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=6ef00bfd0d576a73cea9035289465429&p… Thanks, Chaitat Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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grml normal won't boot up
by Josh 31 Dez '08

31 Dez '08

Hi, I have a dell dimension8200 with nvidia video card, sound blaster live sound card 80gb hard drive, and 512mb of ram. grml won't boot when I put the cd in. it acts like it wants to, but then it just hangs. it will boot on my wife's computer though. I am blind, so I would like to have software speech if possible. software speech in grml works fine on my wife's computer. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com skype: jkenn337

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OT: Camera in EEE-PC and Grml
by david.feest＠arcor.de 13 Dez '08

13 Dez '08

Hi, I know this is a bit OT, but this list has helped me before solving a problem concerning grml on an Asus EEE PC. Is there an easy way to get the camera working under grml? Maybe a module that needs to be loaded? Any help is appreciated! Greetings, David

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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 grml¹ at the Open Source Data Center Conference² on 29/30 April 2009 in Nürnberg/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. ¹ http://www.netways.de/english/osdc/y2009/programm/v/grml/ ² 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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slightly OT: cron not working
by Lars Schimmer 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Sorry for slightly OT, but I need some help after I did not found a error. On my debian amd64 system the crond doesn't work any more. For all entries in the crontab, it writes "permission denied" into syslog. And I do not know why - any hint is appreciated. # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. # SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 28 5 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly 22 * * * * root echo echo >>/tmp/test2.txt ls -l /etc/ |grep cron - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 395 2008-03-10 02:14 anacrontab drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.daily drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.hourly drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.monthly - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 653 2008-11-24 17:20 crontab drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 17:14 cron.weekly - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 2008-10-27 15:15 cvs-cron.conf cat /var/log/syslog Nov 24 17:22:01 tetris CRON[14541]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:22:01 tetris CRON[14540]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:22:01 tetris CRON[14542]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:25:01 tetris CRON[15176]: Permission denied Nov 24 17:25:01 tetris CRON[15175]: Permission denied ps aux f |grep cron root 15472 0.0 0.0 5856 764 pts/9 S+ 17:27 0:00 | | \_ grep cron root 13780 0.0 0.0 20528 1056 ? Ss 17:14 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron -L 2 MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkrsZ4ACgkQmWhuE0qbFyPBcwCglvQAoUpakvJZ24gO/mozXI0a eWkAnjGtIFq321FMeay4P/0vEyvNKESA =qAp4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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How grml cd image is created
by T o n g 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi, Quick question, how the grml cd image is created (from a directory)? A side question, is there any way to search the grml source code (in git or ...)? http://git.grml.org/?p=grml- live.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=genisoimage this only searches the commit comments. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Re: [Grml] How grml cd image is created]
by Michael Gebetsroither 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Michael Prokop wrote: > Besides the possibilities mentioned in > http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=search_help - no, not really. > > But as soon as you cloned the sources to your local disk you can > enjoy the use of 'git grep ...' anyway. :) to get/update all grml repositories on your local hd i've written a handy script which is in our package grml-git-tools # this will clone all git repos to your current directory over git:// git-mirror -b 'git://git.grml.org' git.grml.org later on you can just run the script again. it will clone all new repository and update (git fetch) all already available repositories. michael

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GRML-and-Spelling Issues with Speakup?
by Hart Larry 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Well, I am considering upgrading, but I wonder if an issue with Speakup is fixed in GRML, where when reading, I mostly hear words spelled instead of pronounced. When searching an archive of Speakup, there are mentions of pre-empting a colonel. Thanks in advance for any tips in fixing this Hart

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ssb as usual
by martin yazdzik 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Dear Friends at grml, The really good news is that now my dell latitude d830 boots and runs from the live cd, no problems. Now, like many dell, hp products, the lovely, incomparable, almost Kaerntnerisch' bcm 4300 series chips still really need ndiswrapper, which means the last three lines of a blacklist are ssb, b43, b44. Now, for the terminally stupid amongst us, to wit me, is there an init script which we could call, either on the live cd or once installed, to make it possible for the really large numbers of bcm prisoners to run ndiswrapper without a lot of trouble. The reason I ask is that in using the live disk to work on these kinds of laptops for administrative purposes(in other words, non IT workers screw something up ;) ) only one "blacklist=blahblah" seems to work at boot of the live cd. This means that the very first commands, after happy hacking must be rmmod blah blah, which is find, unless a yazdzik forgets so to do. Thus, we need a grml script to use ndiswrapper which rmmods the offenders, grml-screwbcm or something that, useable at startup. Or not, as the case may be. Thanks, Mika and friends for another superb job. Best wishes, Martin

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grml kernel, pxeboot and nfsroot
by T o n g 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hi, I'm wondering if the default grml kernel is capable for pxeboot and nfsroot. There is only one thread in grml mlist mentioning pxeboot http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/820 but I'm not sure what the conclusion is. Specifically, is the grml kernel built with the following features enabled as modules? # DHCP support CONFIG_IP_PNP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y # NFS client support CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V4=y CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO=y # NFS root support CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y Also CONFIG_AUFS_EXPORT should be enabled too, for me to export aufs as nfsroot from the server. Mika, if any of the above is not enabled in grml kernel, could you enable them in future releases? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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dpkg-dev conflicts with devscripts (< 2.10.26)
by Darshaka Pathirana 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Hi! Just encountered a problem while trying to upgrade some packages. I am using a grml2hd by grml 1.0 which have been upgraded a few times and is now set to Debian/lenny in the sources.list: % grep -v "^\s*#\|^\s*$" /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.grml.org/ grml-1.1 main deb-src http://deb.grml.org/ grml-1.1 main deb http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/mirror/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/mirror/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main I usualy use grml-testing but also tried grml-1.0 / grml-1.0-updates and grml‐1.1. So here the problem: % apt-cache policy dpkg-dev dpkg-dev: Installed: 1.14.12 Candidate: 1.14.22 Version table: 1.14.22 0 500 http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at lenny/main Packages *** 1.14.12 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status % apt-cache policy devscripts devscripts: Installed: 2.9.27.grml.1 Candidate: 2.9.27.grml.1 Version table: 2.10.35 0 500 http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at lenny/main Packages *** 2.9.27.grml.1 0 994 http://deb.grml.org grml-1.1/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status % aptitude show -v dpkg-dev |& grep --color=auto "Package:\|Version:\|Conflicts:\|^$" Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.22 Conflicts: devscripts (< 2.10.26), dpkg-cross (< 2.0.0) Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.12 Conflicts: dpkg-cross (< 2.0.0), dpkgname So the new version of dpkg-dev conflicts with older devscripts but grml does not provide any newer one. I *definitly* could change the pining of devscripts but wonder if there will be a newer version of devscripts-grml, what the best way to handle this problem or if I am doing something wrong escpescially because I newer knowingly used devscripts-grml and also was not able to find the sources in the git-repository to check for updates. Do you need to know more infos? Please let me know! Greetings, - Darsha P.s. I have not tried grml-1.1-rc yet to see how it's handled in there...

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grml release candidate 1 of version 2008.11
by Michael Prokop 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hi! I'm proud to be able to present release candidate 1 of the upcoming stable release 2008.11 - available in all the different grml flavours. New features? Tons of new features! Including an update of grml-small - and we even provide a 64bit version of grml-small now! Release Notes for grml 2008.11[-rc1] - codename "Schluchtenscheisser": http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2008.11/ Disclaimer: The release notes for the other flavours aren't available yet, but the most important stuff can be found in the above release notes anyway. The following flavours are available from the devel directory of grml's mirrors: grml_2008.11-rc1.iso 667M grml-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso 178M grml-small_2008.11-rc1.iso 75M grml64_2008.11-rc1.iso 687M grml64-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso 187M grml64-small_2008.11-rc1.iso 77M Grab them from one of our mirrors: http://grml.org/download/#mirrors Known issues of 2008.11-rc1 can be found at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate Please report any bug you notice so we can provide stable releases to you soon! http://grml.org/bugs/ Enjoy grml! 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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memset was not declared
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 31 Okt '08

31 Okt '08

Hello, i have to try compile some programs under grml 1.1. After running make, i become some error messages memset was not declared in this scope. any ideas wht to do? google shows a bug in the gcc, but nothing what to do, to fix that. Regards. Dietmar

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it's still there.
by Doug Smith 30 Okt '08

30 Okt '08

Ok, I tried to start the latest devel iso of grml with swspeak, and it wouldn't start. I also tried to do the same with today's latest daily build. What I am wondering is this: When will this issue be fixed so that I will have back my grml swspeak followed by swspeak at the completion of the bootup process? Is there some other command I could give and get something other than: fatal error setting up software speakup and then: sorry, software synthesizer not available. Did you boot with swspeak boot option? Please fix this as soon as possible, and let me know when I can return to using grml like I did on my 32-bit machine. Thanks most sincerely: Doug Smith

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VM issues
by Kristof Semjen 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Hi all, I've recently tried to install grml with parallels (on a macintel), and my attempt was unsuccessful, it might be a problem with parallels, but I was wondering wether anyone reported issues with that configuration? PS : I have installed a fedora on my external HD since then, but I don't like it as much. And grml saved my professional life once, thank you for your nice distro. BTW, I will provide more info if necessary.

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Re: [Grml] No GUI
by renlac10＠gmail.com 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Thank you so much, Frank and Richard, for your attention, and sorry for taking your time. Your considerations about my post are correct. Realising my mess, I tried to track back how I came to grml site thinking it was incognito site, but with no success. I'll stay curious about for a good time, though. Well it was indeed about the incognito live-cd you have pointed out and it simply happened to not boot completely in my machine. As to an hour ago I realise it was for some hardware problem, as the same cd did mounted the gui (kde) finely on my brothers computer (although the browser couldn't find any webpage, even the network having internet connection ok). That seems to be a lone guy work (still in beta condition), but promissing as a very useful tool for those a "little bit" paranoid on computer/internet security. The cd even erases the ram at shutdown to avoid eventual cold boot attack... :-)) So finally I came to this list just for us to have a nice meeting. It was great to see your concern on my problem and I will not forget. Thank you for your directions and maybe will meet again. Open source is showing to me now its richness. Congratulations to you all. Best wishes, renlac

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No GUI
by renlac10＠gmail.com 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Greetings! Sorry if I'm a totally ignorant newby at linux, which I'm getting in exactly because of Incognito, a longing and startling tool. Being clueless about, I thought I was to expect that booting Incognito live-cd would get me directly to the GUI (KDE) which is shown in the screenshots. But the boot stops at a linux prompt, both trying grml 1.1 and grml medium, being the first "livecd root #" and the latter "root@grm ~#". So I would like to ask whether this is actualy expected or is a bug, and what I must do to run kde (or the gui) in order to star using Incognito. Thank you very much, renlac

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Sending in bug reports and patches
by Jean-Rene David 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

Hello, I sent in a bug report along with a small patch for grml2usb at bugs(a)grml.org a few weeks ago. I was just wondering if it got lost in transit. I didn't receive any kind of acknowledgement and didn't see the bug appear on the BTS. The bug was still in grml2usb last time I checked (sometime last week). I can obviously resend, but I thought I'd check first. -- JR

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An Intro-and-Other Items?
by chime＠hubert-humphrey.com 27 Okt '08

27 Okt '08

I must have sent to another address for this list, as my message bounced. First, I asked on the speakup list-and-it was suggested I join this list for discussion-and-solutions. First of all, for any who are not on blind-l, blinux, or speakup, a bit of an intro. I got my first PC-and-started on CompuServe in 1994, tried Jaws in late 97, but finally left windows completely here at home in 2006. I have had shell accounts since 1995, but the transition from understanding DOS to understanding unix/linux commands, are a chalenge. Now, we installed GRML on my Laptop, the full nearly 700MB version. We successfully have IBM TT Synth working. Speakup is more or less talking. So here are my issues: #1 When speakup is reading, it is spelling most words, however in screen-review it is fine. #2 The cursor seems to be highlighting a random line, such as 19, instead of the most current text. #3 Where are any power management settings? After an hour or so, I am automaticly logged out of any consoles. #4 Once I rebooted the laptop, now speakup volume is much loer-and-the insert 2 will not alter anything. #5 Can I run Y A S R with TT Synth? Seems like anytime I go in the YASR options pannel, I can never save settings, as speech drops dead. #6 And in the setup screen for e-mail settings to join this list, it mentions you can set filters in receiving messages. Well, in L Y N X I saw no way to do that. Thanks in advance for any-and-all solutions Hart

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When will the speech issue with the 64-bit version be fixed?
by Doug Smith 24 Okt '08

24 Okt '08

Hi, all. I am writing to ask when the speech issue with the 64-bit version will be fixed. The "speech issue" is this: boot the grml64 disk and enter: grml swspeak The boot process continues in what sounds like a normal manner until: fatal error setting up software speakup I was just writing to let you all know that this is happening and, when I went looking for information to diagnose the problem, there was none. I do not mind working on the fix if you will just tell me what I need to work on. If I can be of any help in fixing this, I will gladly help. Sincerely: Doug Smith

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About /dev/shm
by T o n g 23 Okt '08

23 Okt '08

Hi, I used to have the tmpfs /dev/shm, but lost it due to recent update. However, I found that a fresh debootstrap install has it. So, I'm wondering who is in charge of creating it -- so as to get it back. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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OT, misc git questions
by T o n g 20 Okt '08

20 Okt '08

Hi, Just abusing our people's talent a bit here, :-). Quick questions on the git: - is it possible to amend a committed & pushed comment? - how to revoke a specific file to remote master? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Using grml bts web interface
by T o n g 17 Okt '08

17 Okt '08

Hi mika, I'm wondering if it is possible to do the following on the grml bts web site: - ignore all closed bts, i.e., show bts list without closed ones. - show bts related with a certain tool, e.g. grml-debootstrap. - combine the above 2 conditions. - shown only one type of Priority bts, e.g., only those of "features". Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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switching to german language
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hello, i need your help. I want to switch to german messages, but i become only english meassages. I have change the keyboard and language with the grml-setlang script and the boot option lang=de. I have the german keyboard layout for use, but no german messages. In the locale.nopurge file i have added the lines "de_DE*" and "de" and done some aptitude safe-upgrade. Thanks for some tips. Regards. Dietmar

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VMware and 2.6.26-grml kernel
by T o n g 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hi, Has anyone get any version of VMware working under the 2.6.26-grml kernel? I am trying to install the latest VMware.Workstation.v6.5.0.118166, but get a compilation error -- see http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue553 . According to http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_VMware "With 2.6.26 and VMWare 6.5 _no_ any-any patch is needed anymore (6.5.0 build-118166). The graphical installer works just fine and all the modules work out of the box" but I'm having difficulties. Please help. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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How to use the .iso image for usb booting
by T o n g 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hi, How can I put the .iso image on usb so that the usb boots with the latest devel release, grml-medium-devel_2008.09.28.iso for example? The wiki http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb & grml2usb uses windoze FAT16 filesystem, but I hope I can put it into (and boot from) native Linux filesystems, using grub if possible. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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msmtp through ssh-tunnel
by John Magolske 11 Okt '08

11 Okt '08

This might be more appropriately directed to msmtp-users, but as there's the following in the ~/.msmtprc that came with grml, I thought I'd check here first. # use ssh-tunnel # ============== # set up tunnel via ssh: # ssh -l mika -L 9999:your.rootserver.tld:25 user(a)sshserver.tld -N -f # # host localhost # port 9999 Wanting to tunnel msmtp through ssh, I tried this in my ~/.msmtprc: from username1(a)mydomain.net ssh -l john -L 9999:mydomain.net:25 username1(a)mydomain.net -N -f host localhost port 9999 And in ~/.muttrc : set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" But got the following error when attempting to send a message: msmtp: /home/john/.msmtprc: line 25: unknown command ssh Probably I'm overlooking something(s) obvious regarding the use of ssh and msmtp... Should that ssh command be invoked independently of msmtp somehow, maybe in a wrapper script? Should I be looking at the set_sendmail.sh script? Any pointers much appreciated. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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aufs mount
by T o n g 05 Okt '08

05 Okt '08

Hi, I found my aufs mount behaves not as expected. According to the example from manpage, aufs mount behaves like this: # mount -v -t aufs br:/day0:/base none /u none on /u type aufs (rw,xino=/day0/.aufs.xino,br:/day0=rw:/ base=ro) # mount -v -o remount,\ prepend:/day1,\ xino=/day1/xino,\ mod:/day0=ro,\ del:/day0 \ /u none on /u type aufs (rw,xino=/day1/xino,br:/day1=rw:/base=ro) But mine like this: $ mount -v -t aufs -o br:/day0:/base none /u none on /u type aufs (rw,br:/day0:/base) $ mount -v -o remount,prepend:/day1,mod:/day0=ro,del:/day0 /u none on /u type aufs (rw,br:/day0:/base,prepend:/day1,mod:/day0=ro,del:/ day0) See, /day0 show up 3 times in mtab. But according to the manpage, it should be removed from aufs mount table. Anybody knows why (and fix)? PS. My kernel and aufs are all 2.6.23 $ dpkg -l | grep 2.6.23 ii aufs-modules-2 0+20071211-1+g aufs modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.23-grml). ii kqemu-modules- 1.3.0~pre11-7+ kqemu modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.23-grml) ii linux-image-2. grml.06 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.23 $ uname -rm 2.6.23-grml i686 thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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problems with speech, both 64 and 32 bit versions.
by Doug Smith 05 Okt '08

05 Okt '08

Ok, I hate to do this, but here goes. The other night, I downloaded both the new latest devel releases and burned them, hoping to switch this machine over to text-based. Here's what happened with the speech in both versions. First of all, this machine's a 64-bit one, so I tried the 64-bit version of the latest devel release. boot the computer with the disk in it. I kept them separate so that I would know that the one I was starting out with was the 64-bit version. grml swspeak when the disk stops spinning for the first time. The boot procesSmith, you might just have it. Well, I did get it, but what I got was not what I wanted. This was the flite Kal voice coming on with the simple, but rather non-informative message: Fatal Error Setting Up Software Speakup. Well, blast it. I might not get to switch my system over that night. I would have enjoyed that couple of hours when it comes to configuring my system, but not this time. Well, after a little longer, the flite program spoke again. Finished Booting. What is the setup that allows the flite program to speak even if the speakup fails? Well, since it spoke again, I thought I would try it anyway and see what I get. swspeak Sorry, software synthesizer not available, did you boot with swspeak bootoption? Well, of course, I did, but the system is unaware of it. Funny, but I'll try it out. espeak That gets part of the trick done, but not all. Espeak simply echoes all of my commands, so no results from them, except to know that something did, indeed, go horribly wrong. Well, I don't believe this. kill the espeak process to keep it from blocking my terminal. Now, I know that there are actually two software synthesizers, if not more, available, so don't give me that meaningless message. dmesg | espeak This was the only way I could think of to attempt to determine what was going wrong. All I heard was information about configuring and activating every component from the microprocessors to the disk drive and the usb ports, but nothing about an abnormality with speakup. Well, now, 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, but I'm not going to my lady friend's room and disturb her to borrow her machine, and, besides, this would change another variable in my experiment and I just wanted to know what was happening here. boot the computer with the disk in it. I use the other one this time. grml swspeak Well, the first boot attempt falls flat on its face as the message about ossaudio failing to open an output device. Why is speakup or something still trying to use oss? ALSA, I thought, had become the standard a few years ago. The second boot came up talking. Great!!! However, I'm not going to run 32-bit stuff on here even though I know it will work, at least in part. Now, we've got speech, and it's working reasonably well. Now, fire up elinks and head for a few favorite web sites. It works reasonably well, and I am beginning to ponder the possibilities of using this stuff till the 64-bit one works. Then it happens. Instead of going to another web site, we crash land and explode into flames in glitchville. Speech crashes, and nothing but a reboot will remedy the problem. It worked for a couple of minutes, and I am not sure what kinds of diagnostics might determine the nature of the problem. Anyway, I'm on this thing without speech, and that can be potentially dangerous, especially for the already-installed file system, which I'm using right now to write this. Well, this is the best I can do at present for a but report, since it is the programming I definitely need that caused the problem. I hope this helps in some way and this can be fixed in the 64 and 32 bit versions in the next devel releases or in the rc versions. Hope this helps. Doug Smith

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When will the next release be out, and will the 64-bit version include speech?
by Doug Smith 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I have been waiting for the new release. I mentioned the spelling problem in the earlier version, and I know that that has all been fixed. However, I have bought a new 64-bit machine since that time, and have had to go to a graphical distribution. It works ok, but I really miss all of my command line favorites. I wish to know when the next release of grml will be availalble. I would also like to know if the new 64-bit version will work with software speech. I tried the current amd64 version, but got neither speech nor sound when running the following: at boot: grml swspeak The system seems to boot ok, but, when it stops, I run swspeak I hear the disk spin, but there is no speech nor is there any sound. It seems to have something to do with the audio on this machine, because the listings of all the controls in aumix indicate that most of the volume settings such as mic, pcm, phin, phout, and more are missing. The only thing I can really tell you about this machine, since I do not know hardware all that well is that it is a Compaq Presario f-700 laptop with a dual-core 64-bit amd processor. The video, which I do not nor cannot use is nvidia or something like that. I do know what kind of sound hardware is on here. Is there anything I am doing wrong. Please help me return from the graphical nightmare world. Thanks. Doug Smith

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JFYI: Migration from Mercurial to Git
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, Over the last few weeks the grml team evaluated the distributed version controll system Git. Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. The migration from Mercurial to Git took place in the last few days. By today (1st of october 2008) the grml mercurial repositories are deprecated and the official place for grml's sources is: http://git.grml.org/ As usual we provide documentation about our setup and tools: http://grml.org/git/ Further information like reasons for the migration are available at: http://grml.org/2008/10/01/ Special thanks to Michael Gebetsroither for his work and help on migrating. 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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JFYI: grml development mailinglists moved
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I just want to inform you that we just migrated some mailinglists from mlmmj to mailman: | Bugs-changes bug reports in the grml bug tracking system | Git-commits source changes at grml - the Git VCS | Grml-live ISO build reports of daily.grml.org | Grml-testing-changes changes in the grml Debian repository The archives and the list of subscribed members have been migrated to their new home. See http://ml.grml.org/ for more information. Notice: this does *NOT* involve the grml mailinglist I'm writing this message to, it's just the devel lists mentioned above. If you encounter any problems don't hesitate to contact us. Special thanks to Alexander Wirt for his infrastructure work. regards, -mika-

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grml-debootstrap misc questions
by T o n g 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, Several misc questions regarding grml-debootstrap... - Does debootstrap download packages? If yes, where does it place downloaded packages? - Since grml-debootstrap also install packages defined in /etc/debootstrap/packages into the chroot system, is it a good idea to bind mount /var/cache/apt/archives into the chroot system as well, so as to save the downloading and cleaning up? - furthermore, I think over 99% people would have same apt/sources.list and apt/preferences in host and chroot system. If so, would it be a good idea for the same bind-mount option bind mount /etc/apt/sources.list & /etc/apt/preferences into the chroot system as well? - is it a good idea to pre-seed package configurations with dpkg --set-selections thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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bts difficulites
by T o n g 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi mika, I tried to submit a bts to grml Bug Tracking System <submit(a)bugs.grml.org> yesterday. I made 3 attemps (across 7 hours), but today when I check, my bts is still not in the system. I cc you @ mika(a)grml.org in my last 2 attemps. Could you check for me what I'm doing wrong please? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Change Speech language according to the lang cheat-code
by Cleverson 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hello all I don't know if there is time enough to add this feature for the next GRML stable release. Anyways, here is my request: Whenever one chooses a language at the boot prompt by issueing the lang cheat-code, and then issue swspeak too, it would be nice if the ESpeak synthesiser came speaking in that specified language. In my case it would be Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR). I don't have technical skills enough to submit a patch, but I'm almost sure it can be done editing both "/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf" and "/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf" files. Many thanks Cleverson

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new devel release and debconf-get-selections
by T o n g 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi Mika: Just saw that there are new devel releases available as of yesterday. Congratulations, and thanks for the hard work. One quick question, would it be possible for you to make available the output of debconf-get-selections of grml-medium somewhere on the net please? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Bugreport zshrc+acpi
by Kai Wilke 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Hallo People, found error in /etc/zsh/zshrc of grml-etc-core-0.3.49. line 948: --- if [ "${PERCENT%%%}" -lt 20 ]] ; then +++ if [ "${PERCENT%%%,}" -lt 20 ]] ; then acpi output: Battery 0: Full, 100%, design capacity 65120 mAh ^ My Host: i386 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Vanilla kernel 2.6.25.10-k7 acpi-1.1-2 mfg Kiste -- ####################################################################### Netzworkk grml - Linux Live CD fuer Sysadmins Kai Wilke http://grml.org kiste(a)netzworkk.de http://www.netzworkk.de http://netzworkk.berlios.de

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installing dhcpcd requires removing grml packages
by Peter 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi I would like to say: aptitude install dhcpcd but aptitude wants to remove pump which in turn want to remove : grml grml-autoconfig grml-debugtools grml-etc grml-x grml2hd This seems like a lot of change. Is it possible to use dhcpcd without making grml unstable ? Also, I was wondering, according to various threads I read, if dhcpcd is not superior to pump, so why has it not been selected for the distribution ? Thank a lot Peter

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file-rc
by T o n g 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hi, During my recent (massive) 'aptitude safe-upgrade', my file-rc was automatically removed. Is grml still using file-rc? I want to use back the file-rc. Any precautions I should take? I.e., how do I find out what is the current ??-rc that I'm using? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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[grml2usb] Minimize the number of files in the root directory on the usb drive
by Sebastian Krause 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Hello! When I copy grml to a usb pen drive with grml2usb, it puts 30 files and directories into the root directory of that drive. Since I also want to use that drive for other stuff (like portable apps, multimedia files etc.) it's not nice to see my drive cluttered with dozens of files when I access it in some file manager. I've seen some live systems (I guess it was http://sidux.com/) which only need very few files to boot and put almost all of them into some subdirectory so that my directory structure stays pretty clean. It would be nice if grml could achive something similar, or are there any good reasons against this? Sebastian

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for loop zsh parse error 100% cpu
by Matthias Merk 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

hi im using grml-etc-core on a bit outdated debian box. and when executing the following cpu goes to 100% and i have to kill -9 zsh. for i in 1 2 3; do zsh: parse error i think it came up when i upgraded grml-etc-core to unstable. which version is in stable? $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l $ apt-cache policy grml-etc-core zsh grml-etc-core: Installed: 0.3.56 Candidate: 0.3.56 Version Table: *** 0.3.56 0 500 http://deb.grml.org grml-testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status zsh: Installed: 4.2.5-7 Candidate: 4.2.5-7 Version Table: 4.3.2-13bpo1 0 200 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/main Packages *** 4.2.5-7 0 500 http://ftp.at.debian.org sarge/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Re: [Grml] ?: GRML 1.1 and Evolution -- Bug
by Michael Prokop 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

[Cc-ing mailinglist] * Peter Eberl <peb(a)eberl.com> [20080911 01:18]: > Am Donnerstag, den 11.09.2008, 01:10 +0200 schrieb Michael Prokop: > > * Peter Eberl <eberl(a)arques.de> [20080911 01:04]: > > > I tried then nearly every combination I could think of (loading the > > > stuff from testing, unstable, experimental etc. etc.) but nevertheless > > > always got the same result: No evolution :-( > > Package libnss3-1d is on your box, right? > nope -- > aptitude install libnss3-ld > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libnss3-ld" [...] libnss3-1d, not libnss3-ld :) ^ that's "one", not a "l" 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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?: GRML 1.1 and Evolution -- Bug
by Peter Eberl 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hi folks, has anyone a good and easy solution to get Evolution to work on GRML 1.1? currently when you try to start, you get the error evolution: error while loading shared libraries: libnssutil3.so.1d: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I tried then nearly every combination I could think of (loading the stuff from testing, unstable, experimental etc. etc.) but nevertheless always got the same result: No evolution :-( any help appreciated regards peb

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grml-debootstrap into a plain directory
by T o n g 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi, Is it ok to use a plain directory as the '--target' parameter for grml-debootstrap? Seems so to me according to the grml-debootstrap(8) and the debootstrap/config file. But this is what I get: * Running grml-debootstrap on a directory, nothing to mount. * Running grml-debootstrap on a directory, nothing to mount. * Error: /lfs/cache12/systems/distros/test-sys not mounted, can not con [ !! ] Ps, I'm using the lastest grml-debootstrap released today: $ apt-cache policy grml-debootstrap grml-debootstrap: Installed: 0.20 Candidate: 0.20 Version table: *** 0.20 0 683 http://deb.grml.org grml-testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml and grml64 on one CD?
by Thorsten Strusch 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi! I have several i386 and amd64 debian servers. So I have to use grml-medium and grml64-medium CDs. It would be great, if I can have just one CD/DVD with both versions on it. How can I achieve this? Is grml-live able to produce such an multiarch CD? Or if I could change /live to /live64 for grml64, I could use syslinux to select the version to boot... thanks for your help Thorsten

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Grml at FrOSCon 2008
by Michael Prokop 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi, just to inform you: several grml developers will be at FrOSCon 2008 [http://froscon.org/]. FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne in Germany. There will be a grml booth and a grml developer room where we will discuss about current issues regarding our next release(s) as well as general grml related topics. Feel free to join us, I would love to see you there! Hope to see you, 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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CF card not detected in PCMCIA adapter
by John Magolske 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

I have a CF card plugged into a SanDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter inserted into the PCMCIA slot of an X40 ThinkPad running grml 1.1 (installed to hard disk). The CF card shows up fine when used in conjunction with a USB cardreader or an ide-CF adapter. But with the PCMCIA adapter it doesn't seem to be detected; the CF card does not show up under /dev/disk/by-id. Booting the machine with the CF-card/PCMCIA-adapter inserted causes the boot process to hang at "Waiting for /dev to be populated..." Booting first then inserting the CF-card/PCMCIA-adapter I see: % dmesg ... pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 cs: memory probe 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff: excluding 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff cs: memory probe 0xd0200000-0xdfffffff: excluding 0xd0200000-0xd11fffff 0xd1a00000-0xd21fffff 0xd2a00000-0xd31fffff 0xd3a00000-0xd81fffff 0xd8a00000-0xd91fffff 0xd9a00000-0xda1fffff 0xdaa00000-0xdb1fffff 0xdba00000-0xdc1fffff 0xdca00000-0xdd1fffff 0xdda00000-0xde1fffff 0xdea00000-0xdf1fffff 0xdfa00000-0xe01fffff pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 scsi0 : pata_pcmcia ata1: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0x00013100 ctl 0x0001310e bmdma 0x00000000 irq 3 ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5 ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x91) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x4) ata1: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4) % pccardctl -v ls Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:00.0) Configuration: state: on ready: unknown Voltage: 3.3V Vcc: 3.3V Vpp: 0.0V Socket 0 Device 0: [pata_pcmcia] (bus ID: 0.0) Configuration: state: on Product Name: SanDisk SDP 5/3 0.6 Identification: manf_id: 0x0045 card_id: 0x0401 function: 4 (fixed disk) prod_id(1): "SanDisk" (0x7a954bd9) prod_id(2): "SDP" (0x91844b1c) prod_id(3): "5/3 0.6" (0xaac4295b) prod_id(4): --- (---) Searching the net I found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116613 Thanks for any help or suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Envy Code R monospace TrueType font
by Mark 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

http://damieng.com/blog/tag/envy-code-r "Free to use but redistribution prohibited." So, you have to download it yourself, or grml must try to get special permission (which would be very nice).

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How to set a different mail program for crontab
by Peter 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Hi Is there a way to make cron use a different mail programm, say nail instead of the default mail program. I found various env vars (MAIL, MAILPATH) related to email but none to specify the mail program itself. Thanks for help Peter

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grml and grml64 on one CD?
by Mark 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

A combined 32/64 grml CD would be nice, like http://www.finnix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/finnix_dev_boot_menu1… This distro is equivalent to grml-small or grml-medium. I use it for PowerPC admin (32 and 64). Grml CD has previously included two versions of Python, for example. Size-wise, two kernels is not a big deal.

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Wireless Configuration Problem
by Tom White 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

I recently switched from wired to wireless networking on my 2.6.23-grml hard disk system. I configured wireless while the wired networking card was still in my laptop and connected. I'm sure I had wireless working because I set the cable modem on my ethernet port offline. Now I've removed my wired networking equipment and GRML doesn't configure wireless networking. After a "modprobe bcm43xx" and "ifup eth1" the syslog records: Microcode bcm43xx_microcode4.fw not available or load failed That file is still in /lib/firmware, and its date predates the removal of my wired networking hardware. "grml-network" doesn't see eth1, but "iwconfig" does. I'm guessing that GRML loaded additional code at boot when it found a wired ethernet connection. -- -- Tom White

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Re: [Grml] grml and grml64 on one CD?
by Thorsten Strusch 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hello Albretch, Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 17:06 -0400 schrieb Albretch Mueller: I think CD use something called "sessions" as partitions. There is a > book "Live Linux CDs" by Chris Negus > ~ > http://www.amazon.com/dp/0132432749/ > ~ > comes with a DVD with the "sessions" containing a number of Linux > live CD versions > ~ > I think you should double check this because this is what I remember > off the top of my head > thanks for this link - sounds very interesting! But I think it should be easier to change /live on CD creation time. Therefore I installed grml-live on my debian/lenny notebook. But so far I have not found a config snippet where /live is defined... tia Thorsten On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Thorsten Strusch <thorsten(a)ksan.de> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I have several i386 and amd64 debian servers. So I have to > > use grml-medium and grml64-medium CDs. > > It would be great, if I can have just one CD/DVD with both > > versions on it. > > > > How can I achieve this? Is grml-live able to produce such > > an multiarch CD? > > > > Or if I could change /live to /live64 for grml64, I could > > use syslinux to select the version to boot... > > > > thanks for your help > > Thorsten

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grml on Asus eee-pc 700 -- Alsa problem
by david.feest＠arcor.de 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hello listmembers, I bought an eee-pc 700 and installed grml, since although I'm by no means a system admnistrator it provides me with exactly the software I need in everyday life! The installation went fine and I set up a nice lightweight system using wmii as a windowmanage -- grml sems to be the ideal solution for a rather slow mini computer! One problem remains: I can't get the sound started. While there seems to be no problem configuring Alsa with alsaconfig, alsamixer gives me: alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument and amixer says: amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument Now, I've googled the problem and read that this can happen due to incompatible versions of the kernel and alsa. But that's impossible in this case, since on other computers, grml works out of the box . The sound card is: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) Does anyone in the list have a clue? And is there anybody else using rml on an eee-pc? Thanks in advance, David

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softwarespeech startin
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hello, if i start the grml 1.1 on my eeepc with the option swspeak (i have modified alsa-base "options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig"), the softwarespeech does not work. If i log in as rott and start the speechd-up manually, the softwarespeech will work. In which start script will be speech-dispatcher and speechd-up be started? Regards. Dietmar

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Swiftweasel
by Mark 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftweasel http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php5?title=About http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php5?title=Apt A faster Iceweasel.

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A scheme to manage several ZSH config file collections?
by Richard Hartmann 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi all, some of you might be aware of grml, a live boot CD which uses ZSH as its default shell. I suggested integrating several different zshrc files along with whatever other files they need and offer the user a selection of said configuration files. Now, we are wondering if there is a clean and maintainable way to do this. I have had a few ideas in this direction and would like to discuss those here. New suggestions are more than welcome as well, of course. Ideally, the same versions should be usable on the machines of whoever maintains those files, so that changes can be merged back and forth easily, which will allow more people to participate. 1) Make ZSH load the RC files from different paths (/etc/zsh/config1 ..) Pro: Almost drop-in, minimal work necessary Cleanly seperated Different ttys might run with different RC files Con: Needs modification to fpath etc Shells can not be allowed to start prior to rc file selection 2) Use symlinks Pro: Fast to set up Con: All shells are forced to use the same RC files Shells can not be allowed to start prior to rc file selection Ugly & hackish 3) Use $ZSHRC_PREFIX or some similar variable Pro: Drop-in solution once you change your RC files for the first time Cleanly seperated Different ttys might run with different RC files Con: Shells can not be allowed to start prior to rc file selection Needs a way for ZSH to be started with a variable set before it is invoked Are there any other options? Pros or Cons I overlooked? Anything else? The main thing I worry about is to make the shells wait for their RC files in a robust & fail-safe way? Personally, I lean towards solution 3, but I am not hell-bent onto using it. Thanks, Richard PS: Yes, in a second step, this system could be expanded for VIM etc, as well.

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daily-grml base.tgz file
by T o n g 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hi, I know there is two version of base.tgz files from http://daily.grml.org/. I downloaded http://daily.grml.org/base.tgz, not the 64b version, but its hostname contains "amd64.grml.org". Is it just the etc/hostname file alone, or there are more problems to the base.tgz file? PS. How do I know if my AMD is running in 32b or 64b mode? Thanks. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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qdiff any chance?
by T o n g 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hi, First of all, thank you mika for answering my previous question. Now, Is there any recommended binary files differ that can detect binary insertions/deletions/substitutions with colorful output? Here is the one that I found most useful. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.lsm qdiff - Compare two binary files and print differences in various ways, very colorful output (insertions/deletions/substitutions), simple yet effective syncro engine, may be very slow, useful and fast for large files with few differences (e.g. verifying correctness of grabbed cdda data) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.tar.gz any chance to include it in our repo? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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knoppix-like bootfrom in gmrl?
by Albretch Mueller 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hi, ~ I was looking for a Unicode/utf-8 based LiveCD and apparently gmrl looks like it ~ The thing is that knoppix does not offer Unicode support and I was getting weird results while coding for Unicode data ~ I use knoppix a lot and got used to most of its ways to do things ~ So, where is the old good bootfrom=/dev/<your device>/knoppix.iso ;-) ~ Based on my personal expirience CDs and CD-ROM drives are heavily taxed by LiveCDs and start failing with cloop I/O errors pretty quickly, that is why I always go for the bootfrom cheatcode, keep a small partition just for the ISO and use lots of RAM ~ Thanks lbrtchx

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/dev, udev and backup
by T o n g 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Hi, Do I need to backup the /dev directory when backing up my root fs? FYI, I thought udev would populate it on boot up so I didn't backup the /dev directory. However, I got Warning: unable to open initial console and the boot froze. Going through all the possible reasons in http://kerneltrap.org/node/2205 did I realize that my /dev directory should be backed up & populated. Please comment. Thanks. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml in a multi-boot environment
by DON.RAIKES＠oracle.com 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Hello, I have a multi-boot system containing fedora 9, and enterprise linux 5. I want ot add grml to this system so that I can customize it. The current system has a boot partition /dev/sda1, and both the fedora and enterprise linux systems use grub. How can I tell grml2hd to install grml into a partition on this system and use the /boot partition for its boot partition, and to add grml to the grub menu.lst file?

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grml and booting via pxe
by Philipp Flesch 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hi! I was wondering how to get grml_1.1.iso booting via pxe. I've already ... ... unpacked the iso to /exports/grml ... access via network to 10.10.0.103:/exports/grml ... read http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver and ... downloaded http://grml.org/terminalserver/grml_netboot_package_1.1.tar.bz2 (and installed it) ... found http://www.mail-archive.com/grml@mur.at/msg00802.html Now ... that are the right parameters in pxelinux.cfg/default? APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml boot=live lang=us nomce quiet apm=power-off nodhcp noprompt noeject initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> can't access tty ==> problem mounting live file system APPEND ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/etc/init nfsdir=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml nodhcp noprompt noeject apm=power-off nomce initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> brings grml up to "Begin: Waiting for the root file system ..." Where to find the fault? Philipp

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grml newbie
by DON.RAIKES＠oracle.com 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hello, I have been a unix/linux user for roughly 15 years, but have just recently learned about the concepts and power behind grml (yesterday). I am blind, and an very pleased with the integration of speakup and brltty into the grml live cd. My first "job" with grml is to try to diagnose/recover a windows laptop. It had problems right from the beginning when we opened the box from the manufacturer, but my daughter was able to keep it going for 2.5 yerars. This spring it simply stopped booting even after a full re-install of windows. Any tips on system diagnostics that I could run would be appreciated.

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IRC-log contents related to hardware problem
by Keith Hinton 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hello all, I have an AMD64-bit box with an interesting hardware quirk. Hear is the contents of and IRC log, and hopefully this helps. Suggestions, please! <Keith-BlindUser> Hello all. I have an odd quirk in my hardware on another box. <Keith-BlindUser> I need assistance in troubleshooting the issue, and har it is. <Keith-BlindUser> hear <Keith-BlindUser> Note: I only speak english, not German, so.. <Keith-BlindUser> Hear goes. <Keith-BlindUser> The GRML CD boots, or starts too, sort of. Then, the CD hangs, at: "Mounting TMPFS." The word "Segmentation Fault" appears next to that. I have had someone read me the screen. <Keith-BlindUser> The amount of RAM int he other box is 1G or 1024M. But the box does this constantly. I would run memtest86, but have had noone available to read me any possible errors with the RAM. <Keith-BlindUser> I've ran Memtest multiple times. <Keith-BlindUser> But I'm not just going to give up without a fight. <Keith-BlindUser> So I want to know if posible any kernel command-line arguments I could try <Keith-BlindUser> It may be bad RAM, but I'm not simply going to take that for an answer until I have ran out of possibilities. **End of IRC log Contents. **Regards, --Keith

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Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion
by Cleverson 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hello I suggest, if possible, that grml2hd detects automatically other OSes on the hard disk and sets up lilo/grub accordingly during the installation. Here I have Windows XP on the first partition - /dev/sda1 - but I don't know how to deal with lilo. I was thinking that grml2hd would prompt me for choosing grub instead of lilo, but it didn not, perhaps because I've installed grml onto a logical partition ? I know how to setup grub for dual-booting and for booting Linux into a primary partition. I guess that setting it up on a logical partition is somewhat different, since I have typed "root(hd0,5)" at the grub console in order to setup the root device to /dev/sda6, and grub has returned "unknown filesystem type". Does anyone have any tip for me? Cheers Cleverson

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[gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project
by Maurice McCarthy 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

For information only. Firefox 3 will end support for the gopher protocol. A firefox addon has been written from scratch over the last few months, as below. Regards Moss ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> ----- Subject: [gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project (and other announcements) From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) To: gopher(a)complete.org This message is really, really long. Here goes: ** OverbiteFF for Firefox 3: "RTM" With the release of Firefox 3 RC2, I took the wraps off OverbiteFF. This is the release version, 1.0-1381. It does have some small changes, including a bug fix for port access, additional explicit ports and CSS tweaks, so it is a recommended download if you are still using -1380. We'll see if anyone gets the joke on the build number. ;-) You can now preview the Overbite Project pages. There are HTTP and Gopher versions: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/ (These are not publicly announced yet, but you can access them.) The HTTP and Gopher pages are largely drawn from the same data store, so people will get mostly the same views. Additional language packs are still being accepted from translators and I will gladly add them to OverbiteFF 1.1. ** Calling for OverbiteFF skins If you are or you were making your own skin for OverbiteFF, I would love to host them. I think this would give people something fun to play with -- I know Avery wanted some interface changes: Avery, did you come up with something of your own? The skins folder is here: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/files/skins I'm going to be playing with this a little myself, but I'd love some community contributions. ** Mozilla Gopher activism When Firefox 3 is released, I will be putting the FF3 add-on up to the Mozilla official add-ons site, and then petitioning bug #388195 for one of the following: - Permission to backport the JavaScript to Core and then the add-on can go away. I am doubtful, however, that this would be permitted given the response by Brendan Eich. However, it had been suggested before. or, - Get the add-on into the release notes for FF4. I don't see how they could regard this as unreasonable. The other thing that will need to be done is to remind them that Gopher support must stay in 1.9. This was stated by Brendan in the thread. I'll notify the list to watch this bug when I start making announcements there to make sure they keep to it. ** Firefox 2 version (and later Camino 1.6 version) For Firefox 2.0 owners, now that the FF3 version is finalized, I am working on backporting it to 2.0.0.14. This should actually not take very long; if I did it right, there should be only two or three areas that need changing. I hope to have an FF2 beta within a couple of weeks. FF2 will use the same language packs as FF3. The Camino version will follow but there are some additional technical issues due to that browser's very limited add-on support. Skins should also work in FF2, but some of the Cairo-based rendering will probably not. ** bucktooth 0.2.5 Finally, bucktooth 0.2.5 should be released later today or this weekend with some important fixes, so stay tuned. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- Born free. Taxed to death. ------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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experiences with dell inspiron 530
by Henning Sprang 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, Some experiences with grml 1.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530(nvidia chipset and graphics system) and a generic issue: when running grml-x with a module option, but without windowmanager, it complains that the windowmanager with the name of the module doesn't exist. I'd expect it just says "you didn't specify a windowmanager", but instead it seems to try to take the last argument as windowmanager name. As of the hardware support for inspiron: grml-x doesn't get an x system loaded - until I start it one time with the -fallback option. _after_ this one start with fallback, I can start it again, without fallback - and then I get a better resolution and can work without the screen-scrolling that happens in fallback mode. Let me know if you need and hints or info on the system. Henning

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Re: [Grml] How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi Michael and all As I said earlier, I'm trying to change the ESpeak voice language to Brazilian Portuguese in grml. I made some changes to /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, then restarted speechd-up successfully using the nice command, but the language remains English. I uncommented the line 78 in speechd.conf, and changed "en" to pt. It looks like this: DefaultLanguage "pt" Then I did the same for line 156 that now looks like this: LanguageDefaultModule "pt" "espeak" Does anyone knows what I am missing? Many thanks Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Re: [Grml] Install on LVM: some questions
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Michael wrote: > # mount | grep mapper > /dev/mapper/x61-grml2hd on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=3Dremount-ro) > /dev/mapper/grml-crypt_home on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime) > [...] > > I've all the partitions on LVM. :) Thanks. I've read that xfs and reiserfs have better performance than ext3 in general. Do you have any experience with another fs than ext3? Would you recommend any filesystem in particular? Cheers Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Re: [Grml] How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Michael wrote: > > I know that the ESpeak synthesiser has portuguese voices. I have > > changed the default language from "en" to "pt" in > > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, but what else do I need to do > > after saving that file? > > Did you restart speechd? I'm not sure which commands should I type to do that. I echoed the following ones, but speech did not come back: sudo killall speech-dispatcher sudo speech-dispatcher sudo speechd-up Thanks for helping Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho)

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Install on LVM: some questions
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hi all I have one only HD, and was thinking of using LVM to install GRML to one or more logical partitions. But I've read that such setup is more likely to have problems regarding boot and files corrumtion. If someone has installed the entire system onto logical partitions, could please tell whether or not it's really more dangerous? Is it worth to give it a try? Also, I wouldn't like to lose any performance. Is there any slow down in any way? Last for now: during the installation process, does grml2hd allow to place the root directory / in one partition, and /home in another? Many thanks and congratulations for your nice distro. Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho

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How To Change Voice Language?
by Cleverson 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hello I need to use software speech in grml. I have activated speech successfully, but I'd like to change the synthesiser language to Brazilian Portuguese, my native language. I know that the ESpeak synthesiser has portuguese voices. I have changed the default language from "en" to "pt" in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, but what else do I need to do after saving that file? Thanks for any tip Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho) Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

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Adding a program to grml-medium on USB-stick
by Hubert Gabler 31 Mai '08

31 Mai '08

Hello, following your excellent instruction I installed grml-medium on a USB-stick thus eliminating the need to insert the grml CD whenever I want to do some minor data manipulations. For backing up partitions I use partimage, but unfortunately this program is not included in grml-medium. I have to "apt-get update" and "apt-get install partimage" each time I want to use it. Is there a way to permanently install this program (or any other) on the USB-stick? Hubert

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Re: [Grml] Speakup Softsynth not talking with grml 1.1
by Ernst-Dieter Wedekind 29 Mai '08

29 Mai '08

> Hm, is there any chance that you provide the output of "cat /proc/cmdline" > and > "px auxwww" after booting your problematic harddisk installation? > Maybe it's possible for you to access the box via SSH? > > When accessing the box via SSH please try to execute the following > commands: > > /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start > echo sftsyn > /proc/speakup/synth_name > aumix -w 90 -v 90 -p 90 -m 90 > nice -n -20 speechd-up > > Does this help? (Capturing the output of all the commands would help > us in debugging the problem as well.) > > 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 Hi Mika and listers, I got it solved now! it was very simple! I didn't think of having to be root to start speech. I thought it might be as simple as with the cdrom where the user doesn't matter! Sorry for troubling You with such a simple thing! Ernst

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Speakup softsynth not talking with grml 1.1 installation
by Ernst-Dieter Wedekind 28 Mai '08

28 Mai '08

Hi listers, I recently installed grml 1.1 on my hard disk and can't seem to get it talking through my softsynth device. I went through all the configuration files of speech-dispatcher and espeak but couldn't find the cause. However if I use the cdrom speakup talks through my hardware apollo synth as well as through software synth. I would like to have it talk through software synth. Any ideas as to what I might do? I'd like to add that I'm blind and therefore can't read the messages coming up when the system started and I enter swspeak! I also entered swspeak as a start parameter on the cdrom and on the hard disk installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Ernst

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Re: [Grml] Grml Digest, Vol 37, Issue 4
by Björn Faath 26 Mai '08

26 Mai '08

"dpkg --purge etckeeper" was the goal to solve the Problem! Ok but what can I do if I still would like to use etckeeper. As far as I know I can save different States from etc files to downgrading to the old Version when i get an error in a configuration. Do I have the files manually backup? automatic backup of course, would also be a nice tool to have. regards Björn 2008/5/23, grml-request(a)mur.at <grml-request(a)mur.at>: > > Send Grml mailing list submissions to > grml(a)mur.at > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > grml-request(a)mur.at > > You can reach the person managing the list at > grml-owner(a)mur.at > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Grml digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: apt-get freeze on install something "Skunk" (Michael Prokop) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:04:47 +0200 > From: Michael Prokop <mika(a)grml.org> > Subject: Re: [Grml] apt-get freeze on install something "Skunk" > To: grml(a)mur.at > Message-ID: <2008-05-22T23-01-55(a)devnull.michael-prokop.at> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > * Bj?rn Faath <bfaath(a)googlemail.com> [20080521 08:39]: > > > I try a apt-get install something and apt get freeze on "Writing > > extended Status Information". > > My Grml 1.1 reinstall after this, but the error looks the same as > > before. The CPU runs in the sky. With aptitude install get the same > > fault. What is happened! I have no idea. forget: first i do ap-get > > update that runs ok. apt-get install longrun: > > ---------------------------------------------- > > ~~The following NEW packages will be installed: > > longrun > > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1511 not > upgraded. > > Need to get 20.5kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB will be used. > > Writing extended state information... Done > > Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main longrun 0.9-20 [20.5kB] > > Fetched 20.5kB in 0s (22.9kB/s) > > What's in the process list when running aptitude/apt-get? (ps auxwwww) > Do you use etckeeper? Does removing etckeeper help? (dpkg --purge > etckeeper) > What's inside /tmp/log if you execute > "strace -f -eopen -o /tmp/log apt-get install longrun"? > > 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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apt-get freeze on install something "Skunk"
by Björn Faath 22 Mai '08

22 Mai '08

Hello I try a apt-get install something and apt get freeze on "Writing extended Status Information". My Grml 1.1 reinstall after this, but the error looks the same as before. The CPU runs in the sky. With aptitude install get the same fault. What is happened! I have no idea. forget: first i do ap-get update that runs ok. apt-get install longrun: ---------------------------------------------- ~~The following NEW packages will be installed: longrun 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1511 not upgraded. Need to get 20.5kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main longrun 0.9-20 [20.5kB] Fetched 20.5kB in 0s (22.9kB/s) ------------------------------------------------ so long, leinex

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(Security-Issue) CVE-2008-0166 / DSA-1571-1: openssl - predictable random number generator
by Michael Prokop 14 Mai '08

14 Mai '08

Hi, usually I don't forward any Debian Security Advisories, but as this is a really important one please make sure you are aware of it: DSA-1571-1 openssl -- predictable random number generator: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html http://www.us.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 Reminder: subscribe to debian-security-announce if you aren't yet. 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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grml medium on HD, no IP info?
by Lars Schimmer 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Kinda stuck now. I installed grml-medium to disk and it went fine so far. But now I installed the glftpd FTP daemon (yeah, I know) and tried to connect to it. To bad, that daemon always get a unknown(a)0.0.0.0 IP for the user who tries to log in. That works on the machine I try to replace. Is there anythin I forgot (no, the glftpd config kept the same). MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGHlsmWhuE0qbFyMRAhMAAJ9U3ysMSszTcz/6DzpzmCl6GK2KgACeOTRB 62gbM1gGPfp5Zsi9JX/OpP4= =uAtJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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how to upgrade
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hello, i have installed the latest version of grml to harddisk. If i do the following commands the upgrade of packages will stop with an error of dpkg, if the gkrellmd package will be upgraded. apt-get update apt-get upgrade I have also tested apt-get upgrade -f or apt-get dist-upgrade I have also done apt-get remove gkrellmd* But i become allways the same error. I want to use gnome-orca with gnome-desktop and so i have installed apt-get install gnome-orca apt-get install gnome-desktop. but the command orca -t produces a lot of errors, and so i think it is the best to bring all the installed packages to the newest version. Or is it better to change the distribution from lenny/sid to edge and if yes, how can i do that. Thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar

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powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
by T o n g 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to load the powernow-k8 kernel module: % modprobe powernow-k8 FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8 (/lib/modules/2.6.23-grml/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko): No such device % dmesg | tail -2 powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.00.00) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects I think my BIOS supports the AMD PowerNow! technology, why I'm still getting the above? Is there anything on the software side that I'm missing? My box: % lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8V Deluxe/K8V-X motherboard Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5 Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration % cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/info processor id: 0 acpi id: 1 bus mastering control: no power management: no throttling control: no limit interface: no Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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recovery from mkfs error?
by John Magolske 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

I've heard grml comes with forensic tools, and so was wondering if there's anything in the toolkit that might help me recover from an unpleasant mistake. Trying to reformat a usb thumbdrive, I overlooked the fact that /dev/sda was my 160GB external hard drive (ext3), and that the thumbdrive was actually /dev/sdb. I issued this command: mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sda The most important stuff was backed up, but there is some pain involved. Any suggestions (yes, I know... PAY ATTENTION!!) or pointers much appreciated. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Loading 2.6.20-grmlEBDA is big ... booting hangs
by John Magolske 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

I'm installing grml 1.1 on an HP tc1100 tablet. The Hard drive has been replaced with a 12GB CF card (SanDisk Extreme III). I stepped through the grml2hd process selecting all the defaults. When booting, after the splash screen, this message comes up and the machine hangs: Loading 2.6.20-grmlEBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage Any suggestions much appreciated. - John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Re: [Grml] [grml] config questions
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 27 Mär '08

27 Mär '08

Hello Micka thanks for your help. I have added the modules snd-sb16 and parport-pc in the correct order into /etc/modules and that works. I have spend a lot of time to become dsl to work. pppoeconf has created a file dsl-provider in /ettc/ppp/peers/ and pon dsl-provider start the connection. If i run lynx like: lynx http://www.wdr.de nothing will happen. If i add a line : nameserver 129.13.64.5 to the two existing lines of nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf the above lynx-command works. How can i add a extra dns-server to resolve.conf or must i change something into the dsl-provider file? I want to add the aqmoney-0.6.x paket and openhbci, and the aqmoney- interface, so i have done. apt-cache search banking to look how the correct name of the paket is, but there is only the aqbanking package. Can i download the package from an other server and install aqmoney? Another question to start the grml from usb-stick modified for the eeePC, is: grml starts from usb-stick, if have added a line options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig in the alsa-base and have created a modified initrd-file. also i have created a second partition of 300MB (ext2) on that usb-stick. The label of the second partition is GRMLCONFIG. grml boot from usb-stick and the df command shows, that the stick is /dev/sdb1. So i added the myconfig=/dev/sdb2 to the syslinux.cfg, but grml does not mount the the /dev/sdb2 partition and restore my config.tbz from there. What can i do or must i use an other bootparameter? Thanks for your help. Regards. Dietmar

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netboot for grml-small
by Markus Wigge 26 Mär '08

26 Mär '08

Hi everybody, is there any documentation how to generate a netboot package for grml-small? I'm already able to boot the grml-small kernel via PXE but I don't know how to generate an apropriate initrd. And in my case I'd also like to modify the init script inside the initrd, as I did with the older version, to fetch the squashfs image using http to a ramdisk because I don't want to setup an NFS server for that network. I already got that running with the old grml-small release but I used the normal grml netboot package and hacked in the kernel modules and stuff manually which was too ugly to do it again ;-) thanks, Markus

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config questions.
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 26 Mär '08

26 Mär '08

Hello, to have sound on my pc i must start the sound-module before the paport- modules (parport, parport-pc). In the alsa-base i have added the line options snd-sb16 isapnp=0 irq=7 dma8=1 dma16=5 port=0x2000 If i remove parport-pc, parport and start the sound via modprobe snd-sb16, the sound works. what can i do, that the sound will be loaded before the parport-modules? Also the tulip driver will be loaded automaticly and the dmfe module after the tulip-module. For my onboard networkcard i only use dmfe. I have added a line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: blacklist tulip But the tulip-moudle will be loaded. What can i do, that the tulip-module will not be loaded? I have connected a dsl-modem to my ethernetcard. On slackware i start the dsl-connection with adsl-start. I have run pppoeconf, but pppoeconf did not create the /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf file. I also have started netcardconf, but without success. what are the steps to become a connection over the dsl-modem to the internet Thanks for your help. Dietmar

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jwm
by Mag. Dietmar Kirchmayr 25 Mär '08

25 Mär '08

Dear grml-Team! Congratulation to the new release 1.1 !!!, but I am missing jwm in grml-quickconfig! I also know, that jwm is available, because "grml-x jwm" makes it working perfectly. Which files are concerned, when I want to integrate it in grml-quickconfig. Many thanks in advance. Dietmar Kirchmayr _________________________________________________________________ Wann haben Sie das letzte Mal Ihre Freunde oder Familie gesehen? Unlimitierte Videotelefonate mit dem Windows Live Messenger. http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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boot problem with GRML 1.1
by v.klemt＠online.de 24 Mär '08

24 Mär '08

Hallo, While my Pentium II worked fine with the older versions of GRML including 1.0 (Meilenschwein), with the new Skunk I get disturbing messages that leave me helpless: ------------------------------------------------------------------- grml.org ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables Loading, please wait... Welcome to GRML grml.org - Linux for sysadmins and texttool users. * Finishes early booting sequence. [ ok ] * Searching for GRML file, this might take a few seconds... FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.23-grml/kernel/drivers/\ acpi/fan.ko): No such device WARNING: Error inserting processor (/lib/modules/2.6.23-grml/kernel/\ drivers/acpi/processor.ko): No such device FATAL: Error inserting thermal (/lib/modules/2.6.23-grml/kernel/\ drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown \ parameter (see dmesg) cp: unable to open `/root/var/log/': No such file or directory mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file \ or directory mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg. BusyBox v1.3.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off (initramfs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Using 'grml acpi=off' doesn't change anything. With HWINFO I extract the folloing hardware information: Board: AX6LC BIOS: Award Software International, v. 4.51 PG, Date 08/10/98 CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) 300 MHz, 512 KB Cache Memory Size: 192 MB I would be happy if anybody could give me a hint at a solution. Best regards, Vilmar

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strating grml with linld
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 22 Mär '08

22 Mär '08

Hello, after spending a lot of time i am happy to start grml, that is installed on a harddisk via grml2hd, with linld from dos. typing the following at the dos-promt will start grml: linld07 image=linux26 initrd=initrd.img "cl=root=/dev/hdc6 speakup_synth=apollo speakup_ser=0 blind lang=de" The above commandline starts grml with speakup and brltty. Regards. Dietmar

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searching for grml
by martin yazdzik 18 Mär '08

18 Mär '08

Dear M and friends, A bit more on the Dell Latitude D930 grml install grml 1.1 just drops to "can't access tty job control off" mint linux, which works perfectly except for the sound issue, well-known, lists the dvd driver as the first scsi drive and the hdd as the second, contrary to all other laptops I have used grml 1.0 shows more, as when seeking the cdrom after intial sequence, it keeps tyring to find hdc, so this leads me to believe there is a sata/pata issue not in either kernel, but somewhere in the installer. this is very new equipment, santa rosa chip, so I have little hope, but if mint works, why should not grml ? Is the ICHM 8 sata controller no supported for some reason? Best, M Duse

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grml 1.1 with french settings ?
by giggz 16 Mär '08

16 Mär '08

Hi, I just download the grml 1.1 iso and install it on my pen drive with your special script! all is ok. I can boot on my computer. But I'm french and the qwertz or qwerty keyboards are a little bit hard for us. How can I set my keyboard to fr. the lang and other language settings is it's possible...Can I boot with special language parameters in order to have directly a system with azerty keyboard ? Thanks! Regards, Guillaume

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booting from sdhc-card
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 13 Mär '08

13 Mär '08

Hello, i have installed the grml 1.1 with the help of the grml2hd -i script on a 4 GB schc-card. If have deleted the fat32 partition on the sdhc-card with fdisk and created a linux partition, set the boot flag. After that i run the grml2hd script. But the the eeepc did not boot from this card. If have pressed the eSC-key and changed to the card-reader line, but nothing happens. In the menu.lst the default is set to (hd1,0). In the device.map are the (fd0), (hd0), (hd1) and (hd2) defined. I am not familiar with grub and will be happy, for becoming some tips. Regards Dietmar

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sound on eeepc works
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 13 Mär '08

13 Mär '08

Hello, thanks for your tips. If i a remove the snd-hda-intel module and load it as follows modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig the sound on the eeepc works, and if i do echo sftsyn >/proc/speakup/synth_name and swspeak the softwarespeak will work. Regards. Dietmar

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grml-live getestet
by Henning Sprang 12 Mär '08

12 Mär '08

Hi, Habe endlich grml-live getestet. Erstmal nur in der default config. Dabei fallen mir folgende Dinge auf. (hoffentlich ist Deutsch auf der Liste erlaubt, ich hatte mdiese Notizen halt schon in Deutsch gemacht... wohl eh hauptsächlich für Mika interessant?!) * Beim Testen, offline im Zug(ich habe aber einen lokalen mirror, der war nur noch nicht eingestellt), bekomme ich das - obwohl ich eigentlich ein nfsroot habe und dachte, das würde genommen bei dirinstall wenn es da ist: Calling task_dirinstall Installing into directory /hier/produktion/run/grml-live/grml_chroot Calling task_extrbase Unpacking Debian base archive No base.tgz found. Calling debootstrap. Creating base system using debootstrap version 0.3.3.2etch1 Calling debootstrap etch --arch i386 --exclude=dhcp-client,info /hier/produktion/run/grml-live/grml_chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian I: Retrieving Release E: Failed getting release file http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release Exit code task_extrbase: 801 Eigentlich könnte man hier aufhören - stattdessen läuft alles durch, und ich muss den Fehler tief in logs und output suchen. (ich weiß, FAI's error reporting ist nicht das Beste - aber ich dachte, daran wäre gerade im Rahmen von * Warum kann man das DEBOOTSTRAP sowohl in der make-fai-nsfroot setzen, als auch in grml-live.cfg? Besser nur eine Stelle - vielleicht in der grml-live config Datei darauf verweisen! * Ich finde die umgebaute Struktur des Configspace ein bisschen wunderlich: ** Ich denke, fai "main config" und configspace sollten nebeneinander sein, nicht verschachtelt. ** Dann sollte die location des FAI Configspace, den man benutzen will, konfigurierbar sein - dass ich, wenn ich möchte, auch einfach meinen ganz normalen, bestehenden configspace nutzen kann(eventuell dabei die für das Funktionieren des Live-Systems nötigen Klassen von GRML-LIVE in meinen importieren) ** wieso sind die Files nicht mehr im configspace, sondern eine Ebene höher und ohne klassen?! vielleicht einfacher an einigen wenigen stellen, wenn man es nur als build-system für GRML nutzt, aber für alle bestehenden FAI user, die aus ihrem configspace eine live-cd bauen wollen, ist es nur verwirred. * ich hätte gerne sowas wie grml-live clean, um bei Tests sicher zu gehen, dass ich von einer sauberen Basis ausgehen kann, und nicht ein vielleicht kaputtes oder unsauberes chroot genutzt wird. Und ja, ich kjann es von Hand löschen, ist aber mehr Arbeit als --clean-chroot / -C oder so. * es werden gpg netzwerkaufrufe gemacht während der installation - damit ist das bauen von cd's abhängig von einer internetanbindung - will ich eigentlich nicht... * Vielleicht ein generelles Problem: wenn ich die live CD in virtualbox laufen lasse, startet x nicht, weil irgendwelche vbox-module nicht gefunden werden. scheinbar fehlen mir pakete, aber grml versucht "schlau" zu sein, und die vbox xorg config zu starten... In der Hoffnung, dass die Infos helfen - ich werde noch weiter testen, und mal berichten, was passiert, wenn man seinen eigenen Configspace nach /etc/grml/fai/config kopiert :) Grüße, Henning -- Henning Sprang http://www.sprang.de | http://lazyb0y.blogspot.com/

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Re: [Grml] sound on eeePC swspeak
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 10 Mär '08

10 Mär '08

Hello Nico, alsconf works, it makes all the test, and nothing means, that i have no sound. I will look, of the snd_hda driver is loaded and then post agien. Regards Dietmar Is there a german mailinglist for grml?

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Problems with CCISS/HP Smart Array E200
by t.richter＠gmx.li 10 Mär '08

10 Mär '08

Hello All! I have a small Problem with the cciss SCSI Support on GRML. I have read all the Docs i could find but without success. My Plan is to use GRML-Mini as a Rescue System on a seperate Partition. If i start from the CD everything is fine. The Partitions under /dev/cciss/c0d0pX are found. But i cant figure out what module provides the cciss Support. If i start GRML from HDD the Kernel is booting but can't find the Iso. I tried the Kernelparameter scsi=probe. But no Module is found. Do you have any Idea which Module brings the CCISS Support on the CD? TIA for any Help! Best Regards Thomas Richter -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger

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Re: [Grml] sound on eepc swspeak
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 10 Mär '08

10 Mär '08

Hello, thanks for your answers. amixer or alsamixer shows an error error defaul load: invalid argument If i look in /proc/asound/ossmixer, the settings for volume ... are set to 0. if i do alsaconf, nothing will happen. Regards Dietmar

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[grml] grml 1.1 shutdown will fail
by Michael Wittke 10 Mär '08

10 Mär '08

Hello, batch your pardon for asking for your help. I have just downloaded the grml 1.1 iso und burned a live cd for playing a little bit with your nice tool. The cd starts and everything works fine. There also is no fault, when I start the cd with the grml testcd boot option. My PC has an ASUS Mainbord with an Intel Pentium III Processor. When I shutdown the PC (with shutdown -h now) the PC will hang when the cd is ejected and I have to disconnect the power to be able to restart the PC. I have no idea what went wrong. On the monitor are the following error massages: end-request: I/O error,dev hdc, sector 114876 hdc: tray open (there are a lot of this massages with different sector numbers) SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache block [2918b2b] SQUASHFS errror: Unable to read page block 2918b2b, seize 5811 /etc/init.d/halt: line 65: /sbin/halt: cannot execute binery file INIT: no more process left in this runlevel. Any suggestions how to solve the problem?

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swspeak, sound shutdown on eeePC
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 10 Mär '08

10 Mär '08

Hello, after spending a lot of time i was able to boot grml 1.1 rC6 from a usb- stick. The swspeak starts also as brltty, but i do not hear anything. I also did not hear anything playing a mp3-file with mplayer. How can i set up the volume or unmute the soundcard, so that i can hear anything. If i shutdown the eepc with the command shutdown -h now, the PC did not shutdown properly. To turn the eeePC off, i must press the button for POWER. Regards Dietmar

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sata question
by martin yazdzik 10 Mär '08

10 Mär '08

Dear M and friends, Just a noob question, for no reason other than neugier. Why does debian installer, lenny, recognise both the sata and atapi cd thing, giving the correct response to cat /proc/scsi/scsi, whereas grml requires bootparameters ide1=noprobe and ide0=noprobe to get sata hdd and atapi(sata) sdr0 recognised? Best, M Wo du nicht lieben kannst, da gehe vorüber.... Duse

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sound
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 09 Mär '08

09 Mär '08

Hello, the sound on my eepc did not work. The soundtest means, that it works, but the alasamixer shows an error. I us grml 1.1 RC6. Is grml 1.1 RC6 the same as grml 1.1 vom 24.02.2008? I hope you can help me, because i want to use the swspeak optin of grml. Thnkas for your help Regards. Dietmar

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grml @ Google Summer of Code 2008
by Michael Prokop 09 Mär '08

09 Mär '08

Hi, grml wants to take part in the Google Summer of Code 2008 and therefor we are collecting ideas for our proposal. If you have a great idea for a project please consider putting it to the gsoc08 page of the grml-wiki: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=gsoc08 Your contribution is highly welcome. PS: If you don't want to put your idea(s) into the grml-wiki please feel free to send private mail to me. 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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Liberation fonts
by T o n g 09 Mär '08

09 Mär '08

quick question, is the liberation fonts in grml? As the liberation fonts provided by red hat being much better quality than msttcorefonts and is provided in an open license, will the liberation fonts in grml? So that grml-small can just supply this one set of core ttf fonts (plus your favorites of course). They are at debian-multimedia.org as ttf-liberation. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Wlan with rt61 and wpa
by Andreas Gruber 08 Mär '08

08 Mär '08

Michael Prokop schrieb: > * Andreas Gruber <gruber_andreas(a)gmx.de> [20080226 12:45]: > > >> AFAIK, the RT2500 (and others of the RT2X-series) -Wlan-driver is >> supportet since gml0.9 or earlier by a grml-package. Can You tell >> me, if there's an package for the RT61-driver of Ralink in >> grml1.1. At the moment, my notebook uses Debian etch with a >> PCMCIA-Wlan-card with RT61 - it works, but it was a little bit >> difficult to manage it. I would be great, to install grml on these >> notebook. >> > > rt2x00-modules-2.6.23-grml isn't included within grml 1.1 because we > had too many conflicts with rt2400-modules-2.6.23-grml and > rt2500-modules-2.6.23-grml. I'd like to investigate on that in the > next few days/weeks with people having the appropriate hardware > (please let me know if you are such a person :)). > > I've uploaded rt2x00-modules-2.6.23-grml for you to grml-testing > pool which provides the module: > > /lib/modules/2.6.23-grml/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt61pci.ko > > So just grab > http://deb.grml.org/pool/main/r/rt2x00/rt2x00-modules-2.6.23-grml_2.0.12%2b… > > and give it a try. Please let me know whether it works for you. > > >> ...and not to forget: >> grml1.1 - great work - congratulations to the team around Mika! >> > > Thanks :) > > regards, > -mika- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ Hi Mika & friends! I've asked a few days ago for rt61-wlan-driver-support in grml. Now I've tried the package provided - and the module seems to work! I'm afraid, still I couldn't manage to get my wlan to work. I have to use WPA-PSK. This is, what I've done: - wget your deb - dpkg -i the deb - modprobe rt61pci - rename the /etc/wlan/wlancfg-DEFAULT in wlancfg-myssid (with my ssid) - setting dot11ExcludeUnencrypted to false in the wlan-cfg-myssid because of not using wep - setting SSID_wlan0="myssid" in /etc/wlan/wlan.conf - typing ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 network={ ssid="myssid" scan_ssid=1 proto=WPA key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP psk="mypassword"} (with my phrase) in my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf - adding auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp (dhcp is running in my network) wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to my /etc/network/interfaces. Now, iwconfig wlan0 shows my essid and an encryption-key, but I'm not able to ping. Strange is, that after typing wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -d, the iwconfig wlan0 command shows Encryption key:off. Perhaps, here tht problem is to find...? Do you, Mika, or someone else have an idea, why it still doesn't work? Thanks for all the help you gave and give! Andi -- Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Andreas Gruber Isaak-Loewi-Straße 21 90763 Fürth -- Business-Contacts: https://www.xing.com/hp/Andreas_Gruber17/

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cupsys error
by Sean Kennedy 05 Mär '08

05 Mär '08

Hi Mika, I see you've already opened a bug for this on Debian (Debian Bug report logs - #459362): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459362 Did you come across any workaround? Thanks

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Re: [Grml] starting grml with loadlin/linld/grub4dos
by Maurice McCarthy 04 Mär '08

04 Mär '08

For the usb stick try this: dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda this should ensure a bootable mbr. Regards Moss

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starting grml with loadlin/linld/grub4dos
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 04 Mär '08

04 Mär '08

Hello, last weekend i have installed grml 1.1 with help from my brother onto a partition of my normal pc, onto a sd-card (4 GB) for my eePc and onto an usb-stick (2 GB) a) On my normal pc i started the live-cd and start speakup, brltty, change the /etc/grml2hd/config. After that i start grml2hd -i for the installation. I use /dev/hdc6 for mbr and root-partition. The vmlinuz and the initrd.img and the menu.lst i copied onto my dos- partition. I want to start the grml with linld. So i create a linld.par with the following options: speakup_synth=apollo speakup_ser=0 lang=de vga=nrmal blind brltty=vo,usb,text.de.tbl root=/dev/hdc6 ro I start linld image=linux26 initrd=initrd.img from the directory, where the files are in. But i don't have any success. any ideas. b) To install grml onto a 4 GB sd-card on my eeePC, we start grml from an external usb-dvd-drive, change the config file and start grml2hd -i. The sd-Card is /dev/sda1, I have insert a new empty card and i do not change the partitiontyp or so. The installation was successfull, but the eeepc did not boot from the sd-card. We changed the boot-device so, that at first is removable medium, then the external devd/cd and then the hd. My normal card-reader for my pc did not read the 4 GB cards, only the eePc will read such cards. Any help will be great. c) With the grml2usb i have created a bootable usb-stick. But the stick did not boot. I have looke with fdisk -l /dev/sda for the boot flag is set. The boot flag (*) is set correct. Thanks and regards Dietmar

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