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First Release Candidate of Grml version 2013.02 released
by Michael Prokop 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi, so we did it again, the first release candidate of the upcoming Grml version 2013.02, code-named 'Grumpy Grinch' was released. 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. For detailed information about the changes between 2012.05 and 2013.02 have a look at the official release announcement: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2013.02-rc1/ 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 February. regards, -mika- - for the Grml.org project

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Where can I download the file: grml_2011.05.iso ?
by Tom {Tomcat} Oehser 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

I can't find it anymore on the download sites? I thought I had it around, but can only find the 64bit version... -Thanks! -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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User feedback from Whonix creator
by adrelanos 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi! > What are your reasons using Grml instead of other Live CDs? I am the creator of Whonix, which is an anonymous operating system based on Tor. A Debian derivative, run by most people inside Virtual Box. grml-debootstrap is used to create the .img files with the operating system packages. It's amazing and much more convenient than using debootstrap manually, creating a vm image manually, not to speak about installing grub inside a vm image. website: http://whonix.sf.net/ source code: https://github.com/adrelanos/Whonix > What are you missing from Grml? How can I change the path for /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list to /home/user/something? If that's not possible yet, I am missing that command line option. Running scripts inside the image doesn't work reliable to me. I mean, there are no bugs, it works, creating the image with many packages takes too long and I tend to have small mistakes in my scripts and if I want to debug my chroot script, I really can't afford recreating the whole image. It takes too long. So I created half of the stuff myself, which I am missing in grml-debootstrap, but unfortunately paths are hardcoded for Whonix. * (un)mount the image. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --mount /path/to/vm.img --to /tmp/mounted And then "cd /tmp/mounted" and look arround in the image, perhaps change a few things. After being done: grml-debootstrap --unmount /tmp/mounted * Run scripts inside the image without re-creating the image. Mouting an image, chrooting the image, running a script inside the image, unchrooting and unmounting. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --mount /path/to/vm.img --run /path/to/script.sh * Mount the image interactively. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --interactive /path/to/vm.img grml-debootstrap could mount the image, chroot into it, open a bash shell and upon exit the bash shell, unchroot and unmount. Also mounting user defined files/folders inside chroot would be necessary. * support for .vdi and .vmdk image creation * maybe a bit far fetched: creation of Virtual Box, Qubes OS etc. virtual machine description files, .ova format, which can be deployed and imported into Virtualizers * Ubuntu support (or can it be already build from Debian?) * built in support for using apt-cacher-ng to speed up re-creating of images * a tool for installing "normal" Debian on an encrypted (USB) harddisk - Ask for which hdd to use. - Focus on external hdds. - Format the hdd. - Partition the hdd. (Personally prefer a single partition and not using extra swap partition, but a swap file instead.) - Encrypt everything, but boot, including swap using cryptsetup/dm-crypt. - Install a "normal" (fully persistent) Debian to USB using debootstrap/chroot. ("Normal" as in if you used a Debian installer CD to install to hdd.) - Allow to mount/chroot the encrypted hdd if the password is given, so extra files can be copied and extra scripts can be applied. Thanks for creating and maintaining grml. Cheers! adrelanos

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network boot with nfs4 root
by Joerg Dorchain 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hello, I tried to setup a boot server with pxe. I followed loosely the wiki http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver for that. So far all went fine, except mounting the root over nfs4. My nfs server is version4 only, and from packet logs I see that grml tries nfs version3 only over and over. Is this a bugs or is there some trick for get it to work with nfs4? Also, as I am using the grml96 iso image via a loopback mount, I would greatly appreciate if I could use the bootmenu for isolinux also for pxelinux. To me it seems it is mainly a matter of pathnames (and maybe symlinks) to get it to work with a statement like LABEL grml-from-iso CONFIG <iso-root>/boot/isolinux/<common.cfg> APPEND <<iso-root> from pxelinux.cfg Bye, Joerg

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zsh history completion via arrow keys
by John 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Just discoveredÂ grmlzshrc and am loving it. Â One thing I cannot seem to figure out though is how to enable zsh history completion on up arrow that reads what I have typed and only completes matches? Â For example, I type: % vim ~/bin Â Â Â Â Â Â Â <<UPARROW>> The expected behavior is to autocomplete entries that begin with 'vim ~/bin' but that isn't what happens. Â When I hit UPARROW the auto complete lists shows anything that started with 'vim ' which ignores the ~/bin bit. I am using Arch Linux and the Distro providedÂ grml-zsh-config package. Â The only configuration I have done is to copy /etc/skel/.zshrc to ~ Thank you!

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GRML Accessibility
by simon.eigeldinger＠vol.at 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi all, Just for the list cause it seems John and Gilberto haven't sent their messages over the list. I'm forwarding John's message here. The old instructions don't work anymore a quite long time as far as i know. Greetings, Simon --- Forwarded Message --- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim(a)math.wisc.edu> Subject: RE: [Grml] does grml still include speakup? Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:35:54 -0600 To: "'Simon Eigeldinger'" <simon.eigeldinger(a)vol.at> There is a page on the wiki for the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists on using the accessibility features of grml (including speakup). http://wiki.iavit.org/index.php/Accessing_grml -----Original Message----- From: grml-bounces(a)ml.grml.org [ mailto:grml-bounces@ml.grml.org] On Behalf Of Simon Eigeldinger Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:10 PM To: grml(a)ml.grml.org Subject: [Grml] does grml still include speakup? Hi all, Anyone knows if grml still contains speakup in the images? and if yes how to start that? i seem have to forgotten how to start it. greetings, simon -- Simon Eigeldinger Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/domasofan/ E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger(a)vol.at MSN: simon_eigeldinger(a)hotmail.com ICQ: 121823966 Jabber: domasofan(a)livejournal.com _______________________________________________ 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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does grml still include speakup?
by Simon Eigeldinger 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi all, Anyone knows if grml still contains speakup in the images? and if yes how to start that? i seem have to forgotten how to start it. greetings, simon -- Simon Eigeldinger Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/domasofan/ E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger(a)vol.at MSN: simon_eigeldinger(a)hotmail.com ICQ: 121823966 Jabber: domasofan(a)livejournal.com

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GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT us intl
by gilberto dos santos alves 31 Dez '12

31 Dez '12

it is possible use this with grml? because we need some chars like Ã§Ã‡ÃµÃ£Ã•Ãƒ using utf-8? here is hardinfo environment vars in my debian squeeze 6.0.6 GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUTus intlGNOME_KEYRING_PID4846USERusradmHOME/home/usradm XDG_SESSION_COOKIE 8d20ede7783eb969b5343a030000000a-1356819828.797668-1398737120DESKTOP_SESSION gnomeGTK_MODULEScanberra-gtk-moduleGNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL/tmp/keyring-KUSiCV LOGNAMEusradmUSERNAMEusradmWINDOWPATH7GDM_LANGpt_BR.utf8PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/gamesDISPLAY:0.0LANG pt_BR.utf8XAUTHORITY/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-usradm-QmVXyF/databaseSHELL /bin/bashGDMSESSIONgnomePWD/home/usradmXDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/share/gnome:/usr/share/gdm/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/PYTHONPATH /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gammuSSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/keyring-KUSiCV/sshSSH_AGENT_PID5245DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-bCkKVvKSPq,guid=301a8e7eeb51b495aa132bce000012ca GPG_AGENT_INFO/tmp/seahorse-W7jZ6V/S.gpg-agent:5259:1 GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_IDthis-is-deprecatedSESSION_MANAGERlocal/brzpc2012w5:@ /tmp/.ICE-unix/4871,unix/brzpc2012w5:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4871ORBIT_SOCKETDIR /tmp/orbit-usradmGTK_RC_FILES/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/usradm/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 thanks? -- gilberto dos santos alves +55.11.98646-5049 sÃ£o paulo - sp - brasil

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grml2hd
by Chaitat Pi 30 Dez '12

30 Dez '12

Dear Grml I have been using Grml as my desktop environement for many years already. Just recently I got a new computer so I had to set up my new machine. I downloaded grml 2012.05 and found out that I couldn't find grml2hd anymore. I went through your FAQ but it only talked about how to install Debian. What should I do to have a Grml desktop? - apt-get install grml2hd and use grml2hd as before? - install Debian and run *some???* script to have all luxury Grml's super special configurations? How? Thank you very much. -- chaitat

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Thai characters are displays as squares
by Chaitat Pi 25 Dez '12

25 Dez '12

Dear Grml I thoroughly understand that Grml doesn't support installation on harddisk (grml2hd). It is ok if you won't fix it. I just would like to inform you. And if it is easy to fix, I just wish maybe you would consider it. Grml 2012.05 32-bit Running as a live system, inside grml-x, it displays Thai characters properly as in screenshot grml-x-livecd.png . Running from harddisk (grml2hd), inside grml-x, it doesn't display Thai characters properly. It shows square letters instead as in screenshot grml-x-grml2hd.png . This has never happened before with other version of Grml I have been using (grml2hd). I just think that grml2hd just installs the same state as the running live Grml into harddisk. Maybe there are some more complex tasks involved? Maybe it is easy to fix? Maybe not? As I already mentioned above, I won't be upset if you won't fix this. Merry X'mas ; )))) I love Grml. -- chaitat

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