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08 Aug '13

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Remastering GRML for blind users
by Tony Sales 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

I have figured out how to remaster the GRML live cd so that it speaks automatically on boot :) Assuming you already know how to boot the live CD and mount a USB pendrive: Type: mkdir /tmp/cd && mkdir /tmp/cd/scripts Type: cd /tmp/cd/scripts Type: nano grml.sh Enter: #!/bin/bash modprobe speakup_soft espeakup loadkeys uk # optional exit 0 Press: Ctrl + x, then y to save and close script Type: chmod 777 grml.sh Type: cd Type: grml2iso -b scripts -c /tmp/cd -o grml_vi.iso /lib/live/mount/medium # wait for this to finish Then copy the iso to usb drive and burn to cd :) drbongo This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of The Royal National College for the Blind. The Royal National College for the Blind | Venns Lane | Hereford | HR1 1DT | Tel: +44(0)1432 265725 | Fax: +44(0)1432 842979 | Company Limited by Guarantee No. 2367626 | Registered Charity No. 1000388 | Vat No. 927509504

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scripts boot option
by Tony Sales 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Not clear about what the following line means: scripts => run script DCSDIR/scripts/grml.sh - does this mean that the /scripts/grml.sh must be in the root directory of the cd iso or usb flashdrive - not clear from the documentation where the DCSDIR is by default??? Tony This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of The Royal National College for the Blind. The Royal National College for the Blind | Venns Lane | Hereford | HR1 1DT | Tel: +44(0)1432 265725 | Fax: +44(0)1432 842979 | Company Limited by Guarantee No. 2367626 | Registered Charity No. 1000388 | Vat No. 927509504

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grml2usb
by Tony Sales 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi, I want to make a custom version of grml for some blind students I am teaching programming to - I only want to make speakup active by default (commands: modprobe speakup_soft, espeakup) and change the default keyboard layout to en_uk (command: loadkeys uk). I had considered using grml-live but a flash drive install might do the trick so it possible to do this using a single line grml2usb command by adding these as boot options? If so what would the specific options be? drbongo This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of The Royal National College for the Blind. The Royal National College for the Blind | Venns Lane | Hereford | HR1 1DT | Tel: +44(0)1432 265725 | Fax: +44(0)1432 842979 | Company Limited by Guarantee No. 2367626 | Registered Charity No. 1000388 | Vat No. 927509504

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grml-live question
by Tony Sales 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi, I want to make a custom version of grml for some blind students I am teaching programming to - I only want to make speakup active by default (commands: modprobe speakup_soft, espeakup), change the default keyboard layout to en_uk (command: loadkeys uk) and add a few example scripts. Is it possible to do this in a single line grml-live command? If not which config files would I have to add the commands to in order to make these relatively simple changes. drbongo This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of The Royal National College for the Blind. The Royal National College for the Blind | Venns Lane | Hereford | HR1 1DT | Tel: +44(0)1432 265725 | Fax: +44(0)1432 842979 | Company Limited by Guarantee No. 2367626 | Registered Charity No. 1000388 | Vat No. 927509504

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Facing issues in setting up persistency. Using the grml-rescueboot option
by Sawbones Surio 18 Mai '13

18 Mai '13

Hello, This is my third attempt at getting grml to run persistently. Previous attempts used grml2usb to install it in tandem with other OSs, first using the grub, and subsequently syslinux. Both attempts ended badly. So, the third time, it was decided to opt for the option, grml-rescueboot to get things going. 0. Get a working Linux Mint system (extended partition sdX5). fdisk -l output is provided below. 1. Copied the grml64.iso into /boot/grml 2. Set up a separate partition called grml-home ( ---"--"--- sdX10) for persistence. 3. Created persistence.conf in the / of grml-home and added all the paths as prescribed in the wiki. 4. Having already installed the grml-rescueboot package, running update-grub added the iso into the menu. 5. Reboot, and choose grml64.iso 6. In the subsequent menu, chose the persistence option 7. Was provided with the following (approximately): > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/grml64full/vmlinuz apm=power-off boot=live > live-media-path=/live/grml64-full/ bootid=grml64full201302 nomce > findiso=/boot/grml/grml64-full_2013.02.iso "${loopback}" "$kernelopts" > persistence > 8. After persistence, appended the following: persistence-label=grml-home 9. Continue boot. During the boot, the messages scroll too quickly to make out if the persistence system is mounted or not. 10. mount on the command line gives: > grml@grml ~ % mount > tmpfs on /run type tmpfs > (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=755,size=10%,mode=755) > tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880,mode=1777,size=5242880,mode=1777) > proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > /dev/loop0 on /lib/live/mount/medium type iso9660 (ro,noatime) > /dev/loop1 on /lib/live/mount/rootfs/grml64-full.squashfs type squashfs > (ro,noatime) > tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=755) > rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw) > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) > grml@grml ~ % > So, grml-home is not mounted or being used at all. And cat /proc/cmdline gives: > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/grml64full/vmlinuz apm=power-off boot=live > live-media-path=/live/grml64-full/ bootid=grml64full201302 nomce > findiso=/boot/grml/grml64-full_2013.02.iso " " persistence > persistence-label=grml-home > Basically, no persistence partition was mounted. Despite the label added as a boot time. :-/ I would also like to bring your attention to the empty quotes in the above cmdline screen output. Last but not the least, here is the output of fdisk, to let you know my disk configuration: > grml@grml ~ % fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 57231 cylinders, total 117210240 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x000a9f2a > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 2048 200703 99328 83 Linux > /dev/sdb2 200704 6492159 3145728 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sdb3 6492160 48435199 20971520 83 Linux > /dev/sdb4 48435200 117209087 34386944 5 Extended > /dev/sdb5 48437248 69408767 10485760 83 Linux ## Linux > Mint > /dev/sdb6 69410816 86188031 8388608 83 Linux > /dev/sdb7 86190080 92049407 2929664 83 Linux > /dev/sdb8 92051456 95956991 1952768 83 Linux > /dev/sdb9 95959040 97535999 788480 83 Linux # contains > failed grml2usb --grub install > /dev/sdb10 97538048 98887679 674816 83 Linux ## grml-home > /dev/sdb11 98889728 101818367 1464320 83 Linux > /dev/sdb12 101820416 109631487 3905536 83 Linux > /dev/sdb13 109633536 117209087 3787776 83 Linux > > Disk /dev/sdc: 4089 MB, 4089446400 bytes > 61 heads, 60 sectors/track, 2182 cylinders, total 7987200 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x00000000 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdc1 8192 7987199 3989504 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > grml@grml ~ % > So, my questions, a) is there something extra that needs doing? b) why is persistence.conf or persistence-label not being picked up and honoured ? b) why those spaces in quotes in the commandline in the final output? d) .................................. ? I would greatly appreciate any insight from your end that I might be missing here. I would like to get this thing going forward, and recognising the grml-home partition and storing all my settings for the next session would be just fantastic. Many thanks in advance. Surio.

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Grml download size
by treaki 07 Mai '13

07 Mai '13

Hi, at first thanks for the good work. in my oppinion you offer the best linux live cd. but i have one thing to inprove: at your download site is written that the multiarch download size is 700MB. But infact that are 731MB to download. normaly its ok to round such sizes but at this point it isnt. im sure you know why :) so please correct this greetings and keep up the good work treaki -- |_|0|_| |_|_|0| |0|0|0| http://treaki.tk/ http://treaki.ath.cx/

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odd console output
by f gr 02 Mai '13

02 Mai '13

Hello. If I run the system by runlevel 1 (or 3) and type the command ls, zsh shows the following (as a normal user the same): ;root@hostname: ls [without any line breaks] The odd thing is that when I run the shell by a terminal emulator (in my case xfce4-terminal) the output is OK. set authenticate zifumuur set delivery off

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odd console output
by f gr 01 Mai '13

01 Mai '13

Hello. I use grml's zsh configuration on my distro. If I run the system by runlevel 1 (or 3) and type the command ls, zsh shows the following (as a normal user the same): ;root@hostname: ls [without any line breaks] The odd thing is that when I run the shell by a terminal emulator (in my case xfce4-terminal) the output is OK. set nomail on zifumuur

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partition tables
by Lupe Christoph 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hi! I just wrote GRML 96 Full 2013.02 to a new USB stick and wanted to adjust the partition table. But that wasn't valid (I'll demonstrate using the ISO): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ fdisk -l /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. $ gdisk -l /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPT Your answer: 1 Warning! Main partition table overlaps the first partition by 34 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by 33 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Disk /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso: 1497088 sectors, 731.0 MiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): EE7463AF-ED0A-4537-A878-963CCF70DFD9 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1497054 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 0 sectors (0 bytes) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name $ gdisk -l /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPT Your answer: 2 Using GPT and creating fresh protective MBR. Warning! Main partition table overlaps the first partition by 34 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Disk /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso: 1497088 sectors, 731.0 MiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 7A9EDD46-5620-4D0E-B375-F3D2B5CB6FC1 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1497054 Partitions will be aligned on 64-sector boundaries Total free space is 642 sectors (321.0 KiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 2 1459520 1461247 864.0 KiB 0700 卉䡏批楲d敶╛嵤›搥 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'll I can't read Chinese, maybe somebody can translate? ;-) The stick boots OK in MBR mode on a SONY VAIO with UEFI. I found strange partition tables on other ISOs, even older ones. Can you investigate how these partition tables are generated and fix that? It would be useful if you could change them on the stick with fdisk. Thank you! Lupe Christoph PS: I'll use grml2usb for now. -- | 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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