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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 å‰ä¡æ‰¹æ¥²dæ•¶â•›åµ¤â€ºæ¥ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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RC: disable zshrc's share_history feature by default?
by Michael Prokop 31 Mär '13

31 Mär '13

Hi, Grml's zshrc [http://grml.org/zsh/] uses 'setopt share_history' by default since ages. This option is responsible for making the history of one Zsh session available to others "kind-of-immediately". So when sending 'echo foobar' in one terminal, then pressing e.g. <return> in another zsh session of the same user then cursor up will show 'echo foobar' on the command line. While I personally like the feature and somewhat got used to it it's also one of the most discussed settings of grml-zshrc. It has the potential to do harm, especially if you aren't aware of that feature. This is why I'd like to disable this setting by default (but provide it as commented feature so it's trivial to just enable it on request). Of course you will be able to just customize it via e.g. .zshrc.local, it's really just about the default behaviour. Any objections against that switch? Happy to hear your {N,}ACKs. :) regards, -mika-

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installing onto harddisc?
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 28 Mär '13

28 Mär '13

Hello can i install the latest grml on to a harddisk? I want to use grml on a dualbootsystem with windows8. Is speakup, brltty and espeakup or speechdispatcher included in the latest grml-version and is there a switch swspeak or blrtty? Regards. Dietmar

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Persistence not working
by Josh Lawrence 25 Mär '13

25 Mär '13

Hello all, I cannot get persistency to work with grml 2013.02. I'm creating a live USB stick using grml2usb installed on my Debian Wheezy machine. Per the wiki, I create a 700 MB fat16 partition for grml and give the remaining space as an ext3 partition labeled "persistence". On the persistence partition is persistence.conf setup per the wiki. I execute grml2usb either with --bootoptions="persistence" or by choosing persistence from the menu at boot (same result). When booting, here's what I see on the screen: mount: mounting /dev/sda on /root/lib/live/mount/persistence/sda failed: No such device [...snip...scans sdb sdc] later I get: mounting /live/medium on /root/lib/live/mount/medium failed: Invalid argument and later: Mount point '/root/lib/live/mount/persistence/sdb1' does not exist. Skipping mount ... Am I doing something wrong somewhere in this process? If not, is there a work-around that I can use? Thank you! Josh -- Josh Lawrence

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No dump/restore in the default images?
by Heiko Schlittermann 08 Mär '13

08 Mär '13

Hello, hopefully it's not a FAQ, but at least using a major search engine didn't give me a useful pointer â€¦ From the default GRML image (2013-02) I'm missing the dump package. This package contains dump(8) and restore(8) for ext{2,3,4} file systems. Probaby using dump(8) is not really necessary, but using restore(8) is my only option sometimes. Having amanda would be great too â€¦ Is there anything I can do to get these packages into GRML? Best regards from Dresden/Germany Viele GrÃ¼ÃŸe aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann -- SCHLITTERMANN.de ---------------------------- internet & unix support - Heiko Schlittermann, Dipl.-Ing. (TU) - {fon,fax}: +49.351.802998{1,3} - gnupg encrypted messages are welcome --------------- key ID: 7CBF764A - gnupg fingerprint: 9288 F17D BBF9 9625 5ABC 285C 26A9 687E 7CBF 764A - (gnupg fingerprint: 3061 CFBF 2D88 F034 E8D2 7E92 EE4E AC98 48D0 359B)-

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torrent file needs also update?
by Stephan Sperber 03 Mär '13

03 Mär '13

Hello, I dont know if i got the correct mirror, but the torrent file http://download.grml.org/grml96-full_2013.02.iso.torrent thinks that there need to be something downloaded althogh i already have the correct iso with the ceaec04b29f9263e384a54cda8c3bab0 md5. I just wanted to seed something for a good project. Please check the torrent files. Thx

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Grml - new stable release 2013.02 available
by Michael Prokop 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, we just released Grml 2013.02 - Grumpy Grinch. This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2013.02: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2013.02/ Grab the latest Grml ISO(s) and spread the word! http://grml.org/download/ Thanks everyone and happy grml-ing, -mika-

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