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Firewall holes
by T o n g 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi, Is there any way I can know which outbound port is not blocked by our company's firewall? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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image all disks of a raid array in one stept to a single image(dd)
by bill evergreen 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hello, I heard that GRML does automatically recognize RAID-arrays and in addition is able to copy/image all disks of a RAID array to a single image(dd). Is that really the case? How can that be achieved? Thank's a lot in advance for any feedback! Bill

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How to setup Xorg keyboard layout ?
by Frédéric Boiteux 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hello, I'm trying to use the GRML iso image (with grml-rescueboot package) on computers with a special keyboard layout, a french-targeted dvorak-like layout called « bépo ». I found how to setup the console layout, giving « keyboard=dvorak-fr-bepo » in CUSTOM_BOOTOPTIONS variable of /etc/default/grml-rescueboot, but didn't found how to setup the Xorg layout : it's a flavor/variant of « fr » Xorg layout (though it very different from classical french Azerty) ; I can setup in a shell with : setxkbmap fr bepo and following grml's FAQ, I tried « xkeyboard=bepo », « xkeyboard=fr(bepo) » without luck. Could you tell me what syntax can we use in xkeyboard definition, or how to setup my Bépo keyboard layout (if possible) ? Thanks, Fred.

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Problem with grml autoconfig
by Bojan Sukalo 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hello everyone! Maybe this is not the right way to ask general user question (wrong mail list or something) so I'm sorry if made any problems. I have an urgent situation to make ad-hoc openvpn server from usb stick. Using grml for some time as a live cd and recovery tool I think this can be done with grml. So I have openvpn folder with all the necesary stuff, I formatted usb stick in following way: 1. 3GB FAT32 wiht grml on it (grml2usb --bootoptions="nodhcp") /dev/sdb1 2 1GB ext3 with GRMLCFG label with scripts dir and inside it grml.sh script /dev/sdb5 grml.sh script is chmod 755, so executable and readable by everyone. basicaly the content of script is: #!/bin/bash ip link set dev eth0 up ip addr add dev eth0 192.168.1.253/24 ip route add default via 192.168.1.254 #now I wont to copy the folder to rw fs in order to write status files and logs so cp -r /mnt/grmlcfg/openvpn /root/ cd /root/openvpn openvpn --config /root/openvpn/server.conf & echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward #and to start ssh server to access the box /etc/init.d/ssh start The debug output says that GRMLCFG is detected and mounted to /mnt/grmlcfg as ro When booting finished, nothing has happened, as the script had not been run. Can anybody shed some light on this please? Thank You.

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Date for Grml Developer Meeting in October
by Ulrich Dangel 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi everyone, as you may already know there are currenntly four Grml developers in Banja Luka at DebConf11. Due to that rare occasion we synced our schedules and came up with a date for our next Grml developer meeting: Wednesday 12.10.11 to Friday 14.10.11 We don't have a location yet as the location depends on the participants. If you want to join the Grml Developer meeting feel free to reply to this mail (or send an email to contact(a)grml.org) If you really want to join the Grml Developer meeting but you don't have time between 12.10 and 14.10 please contact me privately via email or IRC. Ulrich P.S: Please have a look at http://feedback.grml.org/ and share your thoughts about Grml. -- twitter: @mr_ud | identica: @mru IRCNet: mru | freenode: mrud

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Missing mcrypt/mdecrypt
by Stefan Weiss 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi. I just tried to create an encrypted disk image, like this - dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M | gzip | mcrypt > /mnt/backup/blah.img.gz.nc - but it seems mcrypt and mdecrypt are not included in the (full-size) Grml ISO. Any chance of adding those to the next release? I'm not set on using mcrypt; if there's a better way to do this, I'd be interested in that, too. I never store unencrypted data on portable devices (ever since I almost lost one), not even automated backups. But more generally, mcrypt/mdecrypt might come in handy in recovery situations, so it might make sense to include them anyway. Same goes for TrueCrypt, come to think of it. -- stefan

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Syslinux timeout and grml2usb
by Lupe Christoph 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hi! I'm building a fileserver from an hp ProLiant MicroServer and GRML, with quite a bit of customization on GRMLCFG. While I sweated quite a bit over the best way to add the additional package I required (e.g. bacula-sd), this is not the subject ;-) When I copy a GRML64 ISO to an USB stick, isolinux will do a 30 second timeout. The syslinux with GRML64 will not do a timeout, while one with a 32 bit GRML will. So I suppose usb2linux does something wrong for a 64 bit GRML. In case it matters, this is run on a 64 bit Ubuntu Natty. While I would prefer to use a 64 bit Linux in case I upgrade the memory of the MicroServer to the maximum of 8 GB, I can live with a 32 Bit kernel for now, with just 1GB memory. Lupe Christoph -- | It is a well-known fact in any organisation that, if you want a job | | done, you should give it to someone who is already very busy. | | Terry Pratchett, "Unseen Academicals" |

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graphic login on tty7
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Hello, i have installed grml on my netbook. I use grml with speakut an brltty. Now i have installed the gnome-desktop with orca. Normally i want to use the textconsoles tty1 to tty6 and start gnome- desktop with startx. So my question: How must i modify grml, so that i have six textconoles an ont tty7 a graphical login (gdm3), so that ic can change with ctrl+alt+f(x) between the consoles? Tanks for your help. Regards. Dietmar

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Boot grml without CD ends with "No init found"
by Fog_Watch 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hello I have a Proliant DL380G3 that I would like to boot without a CD. The instructions (http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=tips&s=tohd#boot_grml_without_cd) seem clear enough, but alas I'm not successful yet. From the grml cdrom grub screen I can "grml noeject fromhd=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3" and boot successfully. From the grub screen on /dev/cciss/c0d0 I'm not so successful. Soon after displaying the "GRML" ASCII art I get the nasty error: "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg." and a busybox prompt, not a grml prompt. Maybe the initrd borked? Any help with achieving a grml prompt would be appreciated. Regards Fog_Watch. grml201012 grub.conf: title GRML root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/grml/linux26 noeject fromhd=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 initrd /boot/grml/initrd.gz

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Starting GRML with BRLTTY
by simon.eigeldinger＠vol.at 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi all, I just downloaded a recent copy of GRML and i found out that i wasn't able to start GRML with BRLTTY using the following command: grml brltty=ht,,de lang=at fb=false Is there something wrong? Greetings, Simon

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booting iso directly
by Mark Smith 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi, I am using ubcd with syslinux from my usb stick to boot the grml iso from it. This config looks like this: grml.iso (700MB) is copied to my usb stick at /mnt/usbstick/ubcd/custom/grml.iso syslinux .ini file is edited to reflect the iso location I reboot from the ubcd usb stick, and select grml.iso to boot. grml.iso is loaded into memory. Then, the grml boot-screen appears. After just selecting the standard boot, I get an error about a kernel module not being found. I am assuming the issue is that the .iso is simply "lost" but I never understood that while INT 13h call thing or whatever it is called. So I am dropped into an "initramfs"-shell. I have tried the following to get around this: Mounting the grml.iso into /live/image, then exiting: mkdir /mnt mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt mount /mnt/ubcd/custom/grml.iso /live/image -o loop exit However, this didn't work, I get more errors. On a side note, this approach does work for example with the arch linux netinstall.iso, so I am sure it will work with grml, but I guess my issue is I don't know exactly if /live/image is the correct location? Any help greatly appreciated!

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No Comment !!!
by Francesco 30 Mai '11

30 Mai '11

http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2011.05/ mi sembra ci sia poco da commentare..... new release..... -- Francesco Let's Drop The Knees Not The Bombs (Allen O'Bannon & Mike Clelland) keyID 90675501 Key fingerprint = F747 9D1E E3C4 5572 0042 09F0 A852 529E 9067 5501 http://www.wikicosi.it/

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Grml 2011.05 released
by Michael Prokop 30 Mai '11

30 Mai '11

Hi Grml fans, on behalf of the Grml team I'm proud to announce a new stable release: Grml 2011.05 with codename "Just Mari", available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32bit and 64bit version has been released. The official release announcement has all the details: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2011.05/ Issues regarding the new release can be found in the grml-wiki at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2011.05 As usual you can get the ISO(s) from: http://grml.org/download/ Enjoy the new release and happy hacking! 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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Custom user configs on grml
by Richard Hartmann 23 Mai '11

23 Mai '11

Hi all, grml supports custom configs loaded at boot time via network, local devices or remastered ISOs. I would love to have a basic configuration of my own on vanilla grml. Especially at work, I can't influence who burns what images and being able to rely on having a config that suits me no matter where I grabbed a grml CD from would be extremely useful. Thus, my question: Is it worthwhile to include some user configs in grml? I am aware of the size constraints grml is facing, but RC files tend to be tiny and compress well. mrud is not sure if it's worth the trade-off, I think it is. Great idea? Insane? Thanks, Richard PS: GZ mika... :)

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First Release Candidate of Grml 2011.05 available
by chris h 21 Mai '11

21 Mai '11

Dear Grml users, We are proud to announce the first release canidate of the upcoming version 2011.05, code-named "Just Mari"! For detailed information about the changes between 2010.12 and 2011.05 have a look at: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2011.05-rc1/ 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. Known issues can be found at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of May. DOWNLOAD: Download the ISOs from: http://grml.org/download/prerelease/ CALLING ALL MIRROR ADMINS: If you run a mirror for grml (or plan to do so), please get in touch with us. We would like to improve our mirror setup and offer the possibility for more timely updates with less regular checking involved. Please mail contact at grml.org. SOMETHING PERSONAL: The Grml developers recognize that today is a very special day for our project leader, Michael Prokop. We would like to wish him as well as Marianne all the best. Happy hacking and have fun with Grml! Regards, -ch On behalf of the Grml team.

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grml-debootstrap: troubles with debian keyring
by Michael Gissing 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Hi list! It happened that I had to install debian squeeze with an old (~1 year) version of grml. When running grml-debootstrap it exited with an error, saying something like "E: Release signed by unknown key (key id AE...)" The solution was to update Debian keyring. apt-get update apt-get install debian-archive-keyring At the first moment I had no clue how to solve the issue. So it would be nice if grml-debootstrap recognizes this error and gives the user a hint on how to fix it. Besides that everything ran fine ;-) greetz, Michael

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Re: [Grml] grml64-small upgrade error
by Ulrich Dangel 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

* Xi Shen wrote [11.04.11 12:32]: Hi, Please always reply to the list (reply to all/list reply) as others may also help you and need the information you provided to me. > Yes, I am using a USB pen drive, and I have persistent setup. > > So, updating grub on usb pen drive is not supposed to work? Then how > can we update it? You can replace the squashfs file direclty with a version from a daily image. Please note that i am no using the persisency feature myself, maybe other have better ideas. Ulrich

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grml64-small upgrade error
by Xi Shen 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Hi, I ran 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade', and I got the following error: dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit (Reading database ... 21612 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libslang2 2.2.3-2 (using .../libslang2_2.2.3-3_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libslang2 ... dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit Setting up libslang2 (2.2.3-3) ... dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit (Reading database ... 21612 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace slsh 2.2.3-2 (using .../slsh_2.2.3-3_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement slsh ... Preparing to replace libslang2-modules 2.2.3-2 (using .../libslang2-modules_2.2.3-3_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libslang2-modules ... dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit Setting up grub-pc (1.99~rc1-8) ... /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `aufs'. dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub: grub depends on grub-pc; however: Package grub-pc is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing grub (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up libslang2-modules (2.2.3-3) ... configured to not write apport reports configured to not write apport reports Setting up slsh (2.2.3-3) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/slsh.rc ... Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc grub How can I fix? Or I can just wait for an update? -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

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Creating Live USB with grml2usb
by Roman Gelfand 17 Mär '11

17 Mär '11

I would like to put grml live cd on usb drive. I created bootable w96 fat32 partition and formatted it using mkfs.vfat. I ran "grml2sub grml.iso /dev/sdb1". I am getting boot error. I tried to create live usb with unetbootin. This worked. Would anyone have an idea what is going wrong? Thanks in advance

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Grml User Survey 2011: results available
by Michael Prokop 11 Mär '11

11 Mär '11

Hi! The results of the Grml user survey we've been running at the beginning of this year are available now: http://grml.org/survey2011-results/ I'd like to thank especially Christian 'ch' Hofstaedtler and Ulrich 'mru' Dangel for their help and support in running and evaluating this survey. Thanks to everyone taking part in our survey, it's refreshing to get such awesome feedback! regards, -mika-

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grml-x, xorg ...
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 07 Mär '11

07 Mär '11

Hello, i have installed grml squeeze on a asus eeepc 1005ha-m. I sue speakup and brltty, because i am blind. Now i want to use gnomes-orca with firefox and openoffice with gnome. At the moment i do not have installed gnome. If i do: grml-x the xserver starts, but i can not come back to the textconsole. ctrl-alt- f(x) will not work, also not the ctrl-alt-bacspace to shutdown the xserver. How can i set the xorg correct for the asus 1005ha-m? How can i start the xserver to console tty7? On my system are only the consoles tty1 to tty6for switching between themself configurede, ist that correct? Can i use orca with fluxbox? Thanks for your help and regards. Dietmar

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A GRML User here
by Rooster Cogburn 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

I have a little respin on based on GRML-small/crunchbang statler that I use. Just thought I'd' add it to the survey even though yall are done. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/11853/kirin-grml-squeezestatler/ Absolutely love this project.

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grml for hardware inventorying
by Ernesto Domato 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and I don't remember its name either :-) ). So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that could save the information on a USB or through network. Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called "ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should remaster a CD with it). And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it. Thanks for all. Ernesto.

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Trying to boot grml ISO image with grml-rescueboot fails
by Frédéric Boiteux 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hello, I don't know GRML yet, but I've heard about it in Mikas' blog (http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/01/07/booting-iso-images-from-within-gru…) and liked to try it, so I installed grml-rescueboot (0.2.0 version) debian package from http://deb.grml.org/ and installed it on my Debian Squeeze system, along with the grml64-medium_2010.12.iso image in /boot/grml directory. I then tried to boot it through the Grub2's menu entry, but it didn't work (using menu, we don't see any error message). I then try to launch every command of the menu entry in Grub2's command line, and it fails in the line : loopback loop "/boot/grml/grml-medium_2010.12.iso" telling it doesn't find this file. I think the 'root' setting is missing, and as I have before Grml a grub menu entry to boot a Windows partition, the last root setting isn't the right one. I've manually set 'root' and then I finally got a new menu, from GRML, and then I tried the 'forensic mode', as I didn't want GRML using my swap partition (I had an hibernated system there), but the debian-live system didn't work. I don't have any clue here as the 'debug' variable wasn't set (and so /live.log was empty), but I'll retry this when I have some spare time). Hope it can help, Fred.

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Grub2 install behavior changed? Grml LiveCD 2010.12
by hansbkk＠gmail.com 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

I've previously been using Ubuntu v10.10 as my maintenance OS for managing Grub2, but since discovering that Grml's LiveCD environment includes a recent Grub2 release I thought I'd give that a go. Grml is using Grub2 version 1.99~201012221-1" (same as "beta0" right?) While Ubuntu 10.10 reports "1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3". I have my "master grub partition" - which contains my bootable ISOs, persistence files for some of the LiveCDs, and a /boot/grub/ folder. This folder has the results of previous "grub-install" commands run from Ubuntu, as well as a manually maintained grub.cfg. There is no OS in this partition (other than the LiveCD ISOs). Even though under most distros the drive containing this partition comes up as /dev/sde, Grub2 sees it as (hd0), so I've got it set up as my boot device. I also have a second drive (/dev/sdf or (hd1) via grub) set up identically, also bootable and use rsync to back up the partitions' contents after any significant changes (I originally tried to do this as a RAID1 mirror, but ran into problems with some LiveCDs mounting the persistence files from the member partition, breaking the array). Booting into Grml, I map the first drive's grub partition to /mnt/g201, so the grub folder is now at /mnt/g201/boot/grub and run: grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/g201/ /dev/sde At next boot, the loader brings me to a blank grub prompt (not the rescue grub, a full working grub2 environment with root=(hd0,msdos1) as it should be To figure out what the boot loader is doing, I run boot-info-script (excellent tool BTW, should definitely be added to Grml!) and it tells me "Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sde and looks for we." As opposed to my second drive, for which says (much more informatively)" "Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdf and looks on the same drive in partition #1 for (,msdos1)/boot/grub." The latter being normal for a correctly working boot loader, at least as far as Ubuntu is concerned. I then have a look at my first drive's grub partition, and see that my grub-install command from Grml resulted in a whole new grub folder directly under the root /mnt/g201/grub, rather than updating the existing /mnt/g201/boot/grub So I figure this is why the boot loader isn't loading the grub.cfg from my usual /boot/grub - presumably it's looking for a grub.cfg in /grub and of course there isn't one there. So this time I run the command as follows: grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/g201/boot /dev/sde Note the path spec'd to the /boot parent of where grub should go, rather than the root of the device as is usual under Ubuntu. This time the result file for the boot-info-script tells me "Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sde and looks for le." (as opposed for "we" before - WTF?) But the drive now boots up properly into my boot.cfg. So I was able to get it working. Is this an intended behavior change for grub-install, that --boot-directory is now supposed to specify the immediate parent of where I want the /grub folder to go? I hope not, because having a canonical /boot/grub location seems to be helpful in troubleshooting - letting the user put it anywhere s/he likes seems an unnecessary complication. . . It also seems that many of the entries in my grub.cfg no longer are working, so rather than troubleshooting all the other changes between these two Grub2 version, at this point I'm going back to Ubuntu's and hopefully these problems will go away. If I do want to come back to this later, is there a good location for documentation on things the end user needs to be aware of regarding differences between 1.98 and 1.99? Thanks in advance. . .

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