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Re: [Grml] Adding hostapn package to grml-iso
by Matthias Strubel 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Am 17.02.2012, 12:00 Uhr, schrieb <grml-request(a)ml.grml.org>: > We've added it to the GRML_FULL class: > > http://git.io/YQA5MA > > so it will be shipped with the upcoming stable release. > > regards, > -mika- Geat! Thank you. best regards Matthias

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Booting grml from the iso file itself
by Arbiel Perlacremaz 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Hi I downloaded grml96_2011.12.iso and I would be glad to boot this file without having to burn a CD or to write it down to a USB stick. I've already done this for Ubuntu distros and for Clonezilla, and I found it very helpful. I've been through the iso file to look for the grub.cfg file and I found out that I could write a little grub.cfg file of my own to launch grub.cfg which resides in the iso file. I got the menu generated by the following lines for config in /boot/grub/*_default.cfg ; do source "$config" ; done for config in /boot/grub/*_options.cfg ; do source "$config" ; done source /boot/grub/addons.cfg and I choose the first entry, grml32. The boot process than proceded until I got an error message stating that BOOT failed grml32 2011.12 Release Codename Knecht Rootrecht [2011-12-23] And the explanation was Unable to find a medium containing a live file system. I suppose this message results from the fact that I've not been able to correctly set the iso_path and the kernelopts variables which are used as parameters of the linux command of the menuentry command. The grub.cfg file I wrote contains the following commands function iso_virtuel { search --file --set=root --no-floppy /${2} loopback iso ${1}${2} } menuentry 'grmliso' { iso_virtuel / "grml96_2011.12.iso" set root=(iso) set iso_path=(iso) configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg } Thank's in advance to anybody would could provide me with some piece of advice. Arbiel

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Re: [Grml] Adding hostapn package to grml-iso
by Matthias Strubel 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hi William, Hi Mika, > Do you mean the hostapd package? yes > Remastering At weekends I'm playing around with bootstrap installation via grml in a virtual machine for testing remastering :) best regards Matthias 2012/2/2 William Gardella <gardellawg(a)gmail.com>: > Matthias, > > Piratebox is awesome and so is grml :) > > There are two options: > > 1. Use grml-live to remaster and make a new image, as described in > http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=remastering ; or > > 2. Use grml's debian live persistence features to add the package and > any config changes to an additional partition. > > Obviously, #1 is easier for redistributing to others, because you get a > nice shiny new ISO with your changed config/package set, but #2 takes a > lot less time. > > Cheers, > Will Gardella > > Matthias Strubel <matthias.strubel(a)aod-rpg.de> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> i'm working on the PirateBox (http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox) >> scripts for debian based system >> (http://piratebox.aod-rpg.de/dokuwiki/doku.php) . I love grml very >> much and just discovered all needed packages for the basic >> Piratebox-Solution a alread installed at the image. Only hostapn is >> missing... (yeah, I know, you can install it later) >> >> Is it possible to add the package hostapn to the grml-image on default? >> Hostapn is a tool to create an accesspoint with wifi-cards, which >> can't switch into "Master"-mode >> >> best regards >> Matthias Strubel >> _______________________________________________ >> Grml mailing list - Grml(a)ml.grml.org >> http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml >> join #grml on irc.freenode.org >> grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/ > > -- > I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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Adding hostapn package to grml-iso
by Matthias Strubel 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi, i'm working on the PirateBox (http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox) scripts for debian based system (http://piratebox.aod-rpg.de/dokuwiki/doku.php) . I love grml very much and just discovered all needed packages for the basic Piratebox-Solution a alread installed at the image. Only hostapn is missing... (yeah, I know, you can install it later) Is it possible to add the package hostapn to the grml-image on default? Hostapn is a tool to create an accesspoint with wifi-cards, which can't switch into "Master"-mode best regards Matthias Strubel

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OT: grml in remote VirtualBox
by T o n g 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi, Anyone has rdesktop to remote VirtualBox grml before? I want to run grml in remote headless VirtualBox, but also want to have a local X env for other people who does not have local X, using rdesktop connecting to grml. So far I haven't been able to: $ rdesktop 192.168.2.103 & ERROR: 192.168.2.103: unable to connect Has anyone done that before, or knows how? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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gpm in grml 2011.12
by T o n g 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi, Has anyone noticed that gpm in grml 2011.12 is using right instead of middle click to paste? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml live-usb and truecrypt?
by Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Dear list, I've been using grml-live-usb sticks for disaster cases since a few years. No I have "my own" disaster case - the system SSD starts to break, and the datastore-hdd is true-encrypted. I most probably won't get a network connection during the recovery process. How can I get truecrypt onto my usb-key "in advance"? Thanks for any hints in advance, Stefan

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Re: [Grml] Missing smbmount
by Dirk Becker 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

On 20.01.2012 17:54, Werner Flamme wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dirk Becker [20.01.2012 17:04]: >> Hi all! >> >> I was using GRML very often for mounting SMB shares via 'mount -t >> smbfs'. Unfortunately smbfs seems to be removed since GRML >> 2011.12. Is there a workaround or any other way to mount Samba >> shares? >> >> -Dirk > > Hi Dirk, > > I'm no sure if the package is installed by default, but "mount -t > cifs" should work. I don't remember the package's name - something > with "cifs" in its name, maybe cifs-utils as in Ubuntu. > > HTH > Werner Hi Werner, there is neither a 'mount -t cifs' nor a 'mount -t smbfs'. Seems to be completely removed, I also can't find the packages in http://grml.org/files/grml32_2011.12/dpkg.list Does anybody know why they were removed? I found them very useful. -Dirk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk8ZnCsACgkQk33Krq8b42NDtACeMWoF78DV3sWGGw1qc7GR9mVC > NCYAnj2RFKGBmZF5guiM4nwhDb63XTz9 > =HY7i > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Grml mailing list - Grml(a)ml.grml.org > http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml > join #grml on irc.freenode.org > grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/

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Missing smbmount
by Dirk Becker 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi all! I was using GRML very often for mounting SMB shares via 'mount -t smbfs'. Unfortunately smbfs seems to be removed since GRML 2011.12. Is there a workaround or any other way to mount Samba shares? -Dirk

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Trying to get modules to load & services to start at boot
by John Magolske 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi, I have grml installed on my ThinkPad (grml2hd 05/16/2011), and am having trouble getting modules to load & services to start at boot. I did: # echo tp_smapi >> /etc/modules But after booting, tp_smapi is not present and I end up having to manually load it. There's a post from 2005 [1] that says the solution is to activate /etc/init.d/module-init-tools in /etc/runlevel.conf. Is this still required? If so, as I don't see module-init-tools in that file, I'm wondering where in the lineup should it should be and at which runlevels it should start. Also, I added these lines to /etc/sysfs.conf : devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh=82 devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh=92 vm.swappiness=5 But those values are not reflected after reboot: # cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh 89 96 # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 So they have to be set manually: # echo 82 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh # echo 92 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh # sysctl vm.swappiness=5 To start postfix I added this line to /etc/init.d/bootlocal.first : /etc/init.d/postfix restart But postfix doesn't start up at boot. Thanks for any suggestions on how to set these things up properly. [1] http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml/2005-November/008349.html Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Re: [Grml] Statement regarding the Grml "reset" with 2011.12 release
by Lupe Christoph 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi! I just tried to put these ISOs on the same USB stick: grml64_2011.12.iso grml32_2011.12.iso grml64_2011.05.iso grml_2011.05.iso (I wanted to have the older versions around because my paranoia tells me I will need one of the programs that were deleted, by I want to use the newer versions to find out if I really do.) It turns out that grml2usb used the flavour to generate the syslinux menu entries: Debug: 2012-01-05 12:31:35,505 Note: you can boot flavour grml using 'grml' on the commandline. Debug: 2012-01-05 12:31:35,505 Note: you can boot flavour grml32 using 'grml32' on the commandline. Debug: 2012-01-05 12:31:35,505 Note: you can boot flavour grml64 using 'grml64' on the commandline. So I'm able to boot the older versions because I specified the later on the command line, and grml32_2011.12.iso because the flavour changed to grml32. And grml64 was selected as the default flavour because it came first. Only the version was replaced. Looks like I would have to fiddle with the contents of one of the grml64 ISOs to accomplish my goal. Any suggestions? Yeah, I know, buy another USB stick, they're cheap ;-) Thanks, Luep 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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A New Year and a big thank you.
by Charles Alan Hewson 31 Dez '11

31 Dez '11

Hi All, First, I want to thank the developers, testers and contributors. I have used GRML for years as an on the road work environment. I have customized with grml-live since it was introduced. Think firmware and cross-platform encryption that can not be redistributed. We all use the best tool for the need if it is rescue, recovery, repair, privacy or security. After 40 years in the business I appreciate what these fine people are doing as we all should. Second, I am resolved to contribute more to this project and the community in 2012. I can test what I use more thoroughly and check the upstream for the feature or bug. The developers use 64 bit boxes. If we expect to use a 32 bit GRML for 2 more years we need to test it. This was not intended to start a rant just to be a reminder. Charles

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mirror grml
by John Heim 30 Dez '11

30 Dez '11

I would like to set up a grml mirror site. How do I do that?

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grml as host system
by Philippe Delavalade 30 Dez '11

30 Dez '11

Hi. I have already complain about the removal of the brltty boot option in the new release. Now, I realise that the new grml is nomore suitable as host system to build linuxfromscratch ; previously I recommanded it as livecd for this purpous but now, important packages are missing... It's sad. -- Ph. Delavalade

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Let me reframe the question, then I'll go join the devel list...
by Tom {Tomcat} Oehser 28 Dez '11

28 Dez '11

So, I will take the suggestion to go participate on the devel list... And I understand the reluctance to just keep stuff that isn't tested... And, it even makes sense to see what people scream about, after all, there is an old saying, if you don't wear it for a year, throw it away... But, I think it is fair to re-frame the question, in a _rescue_ context. For rescue, one often finds oneself suddenly with _only_ one's rescue media. Having the latest kernel isn't so important, but being able to quickly and easily do something-or-other *at all* is important. So the question is, we've been talking about what 11.12 removes. For _rescue_, what does it _add_ over 11.5? EFI boot support is a candidate for something that would matter, but cleanup, mDNS, auto-startups, build stuff for grml, zsh config, terminal fonts, etc . - doesn't really matter. For me personally, I use grml for rescue and reformats and recoveries. Often I boot virtual machines with it, also, to do something-or-other to a copy of a running machine. I'm not kidding that the most common thing I do boils down to chains of netcat/tar/cpio/lzop/gzip/buffer/nc to move around disk images or virtual machines, and having both buffer and lzop even considered for removal gives me pause that maybe this tool is going in a direction different than what my uses and needs are. So, for me, the question is really simple - 2011.05 is a pefect fit for my current needs - should I just take that as the gold-standard final- release and not look back? 2011.05 is working _fine_ for me - even a couple of hours to learn how to build a -full myself, never mind the hours to become active, is more driven by idle curiosity and a desire to support the tool than it is by common sense. Common sense for me would be, 2011.05 ain't broke and I'm unlikely to have hardware in the next 5 years that cares for newer kernels. Common sense would be to slide the write protect tab on a few USB sticks and figure you've painted your masterpiece and it is done. The question is, what reasons are there to upgrade? Aside from it being smaller and advantages arising directly from it being smaller? -Tom -- "Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world." --Theodore Parker The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it -- and that's all. It is thus that we should love. -- DeGourmont

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Statement regarding the Grml "reset" with 2011.12 release
by Michael Prokop 28 Dez '11

28 Dez '11

Dear Grml users and developers, you might have noticed the rumble in the Grml community about the new "install & rescue" mission of Grml and the dropped grml-small and 700MB ISOs.[1] Be assured that we take all the raised concerns serious. I for my own not only because I'm the project inventor, but also since it's one of my main projects which I'm maintaining for more than 7 years (the seven-year itch?) and personally do *really* care about. So I'd like to give some backgrounds of what's going on, all of that being from *my* personal POV. Christian - being the other release manager in the Grml project - did an outstanding job for this release and was a driving force to get this release done at all. To get a common starting point I'd like you to read Christian's blog article describing his POV of the 2011.12 release: http://zeha.at/blog/2011/12/grml-pissed-off.html To quote Christian: | Sure, it's hard to swallow and most people can just ignore the | alternative: no release at all. And that's the reason why the reset button had to be pressed for this Grml release. The download stats show that the Grml project is serving several thousand users. To quote Christoph Biedl: | Rest assured Grml has a very pleased user base, perhaps a bit too | quiet, and as always more taking than giving. A "Keep Grml just the | way it is, it's almost perfect" might be boring but it's actually a | compliment about the things you've achieved in the past seven-ish | years. -- http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml-devel/2011-December/000217.html And that's exactly our issue: we can't keep the "more taking than giving" project any longer that way. Even though our *users* are happy, the *developers* aren't happy any longer. To quote Frank, another Grml developer: | But it is equally important, that everyone understands, that the few | people who do the major work on rolling out releases (and I am not one | of them by a long shot) on a fairly regular schedule only have 24 | hours in a day, just like everyone else. The workload needed to be | contained at a doable level. | [...] | That aside, I don't see the changes as being damaging, but rather as a | chance. I agree that there are some packages that are missing. But it's | only *now* that we get to know what these packages were. It is a well | deserved cleanup of our list of packages, because we now get to see | which packages deserve attention and which do not. -- http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml/2011-December/011295.html Since we've a real life as well (earning money, having family, sleeping,... - you know) we have to keep the project at level at which we can manage it in our spare time. This was no longer true for the large set of packages rolling with 2x 700MB ISOs, 2x ~230MB ISOs and 2x ~120MB ISOs. Instead we declared "install & rescue" as our main mission to focus on a specific target. We created a new Grml flavour, known as the new GRML_FULL in grml-live and resulting in grml32 and grml64 ISOs with ~350MB. grml96 (being a multiboot ISO of grml64 and grml32) is new as well - though since it's basically just the result of "grml2iso -o grml96_${release}.iso grml64_*.iso grml32_*.iso" we're not yet 100% certain about its future. At the same time all the previous flavours still ARE there in grml-live: GRML_SMALL and GRML_MEDIUM as it used to be, the old GRML_FULL (700MB) just got renamed to GRML_XL. So if you want to create your own grml-small/grml-medium/grml-xl just use grml-live (http://grml.org/grml-live/). Remastering became once again simplier with this release: http://blog.grml.org/archives/364-Remastering-Grml-2011.12-will-be-as-easy-… But it's NOT as simple as just maintaining a software list in a textfile inside grml-live.git. It's *also* about testing (some kind of regularly for the daily ISOs and more extensive testing of release candidates), fixing failing builds (daily ISOs as well as Git-triggered ones), integration in Grml tools (grml-quickconfig, grml-x,...) as well as providing sane default configurations and giving user support ("why doesn't foo work?"). So we need help not only at maintaining the flavours (as in main development/coding), but also at: * testing, testing, testing * documentation * website ( https://github.com/grml/grml.org ) * bug fixing ( http://bts.grml.org/grml/ ) * user support (IRC, mailing lists,...) * marketing (spreading the word, blogging, twitter/identi.ca,...) * press stuff While the 2011.12 release might not be perfect we worked a *lot* to make the "one button click release" dream come true. The release process became much more streamlined so we even consider providing a 2012.01 release which addresses known bugs and re-adds some software packages. We also put a lot of work into our infrastructure (Jenkins, mirror, github,...) which is serving not only developers but also our users. If you care about Grml and would like to see grml-small, grml-xl,... come back again or want to see a texttool flavour, a development flavour, a pen testing flavour, or $YOU_NAME_IT then please don't just send flames (which is nothing else than pissing in our face and further demotivating us) but step up and help us *NOW*! You can find us on #grml on freenode, the user mailing list (http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml), the development mailing list ( http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-devel) and patch/fork/pull-request our stuff at https://github.com/grml/ Be assured: The Grml team will do whatever is necessary to make contributions as easy and pleasant as possible. But please join our community NOW if you really care about it. regards, -mika- [1] [Grml-devel] About the new grml direction http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml-devel/2011-December/000213.html [Grml] Grml 2011.12 trolling^W comments from disappointed user(s) http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml/2011-December/011283.html

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removal of "buffer" command? alternatives?
by Tom {Tomcat} Oehser 28 Dez '11

28 Dez '11

Hi- Up until this release, the 'buffer' command was included. I use this all the time. Things like: nc -l 12345 | buffer -z256k -p75 -m10m -o /dev/sda Gone? :( Is there an alternative? -Tom -- "Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world." --Theodore Parker The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it -- and that's all. It is thus that we should love. -- DeGourmont

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Wrong link adress for Grml96 ISO signature file
by Christian Ziemski 25 Dez '11

25 Dez '11

Hi! The link to the signature file for the Grml96 ISO at http://grml.org/download/ is wrong. It is the same as for Grml64: http://download.grml.org/grml64_2011.12.iso.sha1.asc but it need to be http://download.grml.org/grml96_2011.12.iso.sha1.asc The file itself is correctly reachable under the latter address. BTW: Merry Christmas to all Grml users and the complete team! Regards Christian

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Grml 2011.12 trolling^W comments from disappointed user(s)
by Paweł azhag Sadkowski 24 Dez '11

24 Dez '11

Hello, first: congratulations with the new release. However I want to share with you some thoughts about new Grml. Up to Grml 2011.05 you were providing excelent set of tools for everything, I'm not sure if there was a single job one couldn't do with Grml (besides playing with wobbly windows or OOo/LO stuff, but thats not what admins usualy do ;-)). From my point of view Grml was livecd one of the kind. I did lots of advocating, had lots of conversations like "I prefer XYZ", "Look at all that tools in Grml, you can do all stuff you do in XYZ and many more", "Oh, it really looks nice". My personal motto of Grml was "What can't you do?". And then comes 2011.12. Many apps, many tools were removed. Now I can't tell the difference between Grml and SystemRescueCD, PLD Rescue CD, Repair Is Possible and others. Grml for me lost it's identity, just another rescue live cd. I already twice faced question "Why should I use Grml not SystemRescueCD? SRCD has some tools I need, Grml doesn't". Those tools were already (re-)added by mrud (one in rc1, so it's in final release), but the damage has been done -- one user replied "I better stick to distro that already have what I need without asking", other won't use Grml until next release. Another person actually listed $LONG_LONG_LONG_LIST_OF_REMOVED_TOOLS and asked "What can you do with Grml (except grml-debootstrap)?!". I couldn't find the answer. Is there any chance that since next release you will change your priorities back to <=2011.05 state? Or at least can you add -extended verison of Grml, similar to good old -full? Probably I can help with that, if you need some. Kind regards, Paweł azhag Sadkowski

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Grml 2011.12 - Knecht Rootrecht released
by Ulrich Dangel 24 Dez '11

24 Dez '11

Just in time for the holidays we released today, Dec. 23th, Grml 2011.12 - Knecht Rootrecht. The codename is a play on the term 'Knecht Ruprecht' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knecht_ruprecht#Knecht_Ruprecht - http://xkcd.com/838/ For the changes between 2011.12-rc1 and the final release please have a look at out blog - http://blog.grml.org/archives/368-Grml-new-stable-release-2011.12-available… For detailed information about the changes between 2011.05 and 2011.12 have a look at the official release announcement: http://bit.ly/sgpIz5 This release brings a downsizing and cleanup: one flavour, two architectures three options. The new, smaller flavour has a 350MB ISO size target, while still delivering over 1.1GB of open source software relevant for system administrators As a special treat we created grml96, an ISO image containg both grml32 and grml64. This ISO image will also boot on UEFI systems and lets you fix basically all PCs :) Download Grml 2011.12 directly from http://bit.ly/rKYb4K ! Please get in touch with us and share your opinion about Grml and spread the word. Thanks for testing the RC1, happy holidays and enjoy the new Grml 2011.12. Ulrich

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sound appears to be muted
by John G. Heim 20 Dez '11

20 Dez '11

I can't get any sound out of my PC when booted into grml latest release candidate. I scp'ed a sound file (my dog barking) to the machine and used aplay to play it. But I didn't hear anything. Sound works when booted into linux off the hard disk. grml@grml ~ % aplay rufus.wav Playing WAVE 'rufus.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono I also tried loading the speakup_soft module and running espeak. No error messages appear. Nothing abnormal in the syslog either. That's why I think sound is muted. What I really need is a command for unmuting a sound card. I don't know how to do that at the command line. I guess that's technically a linux question, not a grml question.

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Re: [Grml] ssh server with grml_2011.12-rc1
by John Heim 18 Dez '11

18 Dez '11

From: "Ulrich Dangel" <mru(a)grml.org> To: <grml(a)ml.grml.org> > > It seems that this is the correct commandline. I just tested it and it > works for me. Is there maybe a firewall in between? Otherwise can you > test if there is a sshd running on the machine with pidof sshd? You can > also try to access the ssh daemon from the machine itself with: > > ssh grml(a)grml.local > > which should ask for the password of the host. > I got it to work. Part of the problem was that I forgot abut having to press tab before typing in the cheat code. But another thing I was doing wrong is being too quick to try to log in. The ssh daemon doesn't start until about 5 seconds after the tone. Even after I was entering the cheat code correctly, I ran both an ssh command and an nmap before the daemon started. I actually verified this... I can type 'ssh hostname', listen to it say "connection refused", and run nmap all in the time between the tone and when the daemon starts. Welll, I'm currently testing on an old Dell 280. So that might be part of the problem too.

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boot option "lang"
by Philippe Delavalade 17 Dez '11

17 Dez '11

Hi. With the grml64_2011.12-rc1, I entered lang=fr-iso at boot propt. But the kbd_mode command told me that I was in utf8. I verified in /proc/cmdline that my option was correct and it was the case. Beside this, I continue to think that a beep at the moment of the boot prompt and the possibility to have a boot option invoking brltty is the more accessible for blind people. Sorry to insist on thiis point. Regards -- Ph. Delavalade

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serial console with grml_2011.12-rc1
by John Heim 16 Dez '11

16 Dez '11

I can't get a serial console with grml_2011.12-rc1. I think (can't be sure because I'm blind) I am typing this: grml serial console=ttyS0,19200n8 If I boot my machine into linux off the hard drive, I get my serial console. So I know there is nothing wrong with my null modem cable or my terminal emulator. But with grml, I do not get a prompt of any type. From the terminal side, it looks like there's no getty on the other side.

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Grml 2011.12 Release Candidate 1 available
by Christian Hofstaedtler 15 Dez '11

15 Dez '11

Grml Users! We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming version 2011.12, code-named "Knecht Rootrecht"! For detailed information about the changes between 2011.05 and 2011.12 have a look at the official release announcement: http://bit.ly/vMHbqR This release brings a downsizing and cleanup: one flavour, two architectures. The new, smaller flavour has a 350MB ISO size target, while still delivering over 1.1GB of open source software relevant for system administrators! Give it a try: download grml 2011.12-rc from http://bit.ly/sESUaa now! 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 December. Thank you for your attention, -ch on behalf of the Grml Team. -- Grml Live Linux

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