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Using VMware Workstation on GRML Linux
by Keith Hinton 03 Mär '09

03 Mär '09

I was wondering, how difficult it is to install the Gnome environment inside the GRML environment when installed onto a hard-disk drive? Probably an aptitude-install Gnome does it. However, Hear is what I was wanting to know. I have purchased the VMWare Workstation package, and have a registered serial number for it. It's a standard tar formatted file, with a Tar.GZ extention added onto the end of it. Extracting it isn't my problem. The problem is, how will I instruct it to boot the necessary VMware services on boot of GRML itself? I also hope, that I will be able to simply do an grml-x gnome and have gnome launch directly and then run VMware workstation. Could anyone contact me with instructions on this process? Thanks. Regards, --Keith

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grml and mactel
by Chaitat Piriyastit 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hi, I am trying to: * install grml on a flash drive (usb) using grml2hd * my computer is MacMIni (Intel) * i install RefIt which shows me options to boot from my flash drive However, it seems like I need to do something about EFI. Do you have any idea about making the flash bootable by EFI (not BIOS)? Thanks, -- Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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installing grml
by Josh 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi, How well will grml run on a system with 64mb of ram or 128mb of ram useing speakup with voxin or espeak software speech? Grml 1.1 that is? Josh

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installing grml
by Josh 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

hi, Can someone give me an audio walkthrough on how to nstall grml1.1? Also can someone tell me how to get it working with ethernet? and also if it's possible to update to the latest ESpeak? Also, if it's possible to get voxin working with ESpeak? Josh

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/etc/init.d/bootlocal files
by T o n g 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi, Which package creates /etc/init.d/bootlocal files? I.e., /etc/init.d/bootlocal.first, /etc/init.d/bootlocal.middle & /etc/ init.d/bootlocal.last They are not LSB-compliant, as required by the Debian Policy, chapter 9.3.2 Writing the scripts, http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts . Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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how to disable antialias font in x window
by Chaitat Piriyastit 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hi, I have tried several things such as: $ rxvt -fn 'xft:antialias=false,-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15' or create: /etc/fonts/local.conf and place: <match target="font"> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> inside the file. It still does not work. Is there other workaround? Chaitat Piriyasatit ... waking up to pee and see whats up online

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Suggest PFM, the best FM
by T o n g 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

Hi, How do you define the best file manager? To me, the only standard is how powerful it is. Thus, for me the winner of the best file manager is pfm, http://p-f-m.sourceforge.net/, because there is no other file managers that are more powerful than it. To justify my claim, let me begin with a quote from vshnu: "when one is concerned about file manipulation and management ..., a CLI can be a frustratingly terse interface... A GUI file manager can address this problem, but then you... have lost the advantages of the CLI." I.e., pfm has the normal advantage of a GUI file manager, but its unique feature that allows you to manipulate and manage file and file names using the CLI interface makes it stands out from the crowd. Moreover, there is no other file manager that aligns better with the spirit of grml than pfm's *text based* GUI interface. To explain it, let me begin with a (long) story, - Normally, filename completion, wildcarding and the "xargs" command can cover 99% of my file/directory manipulation and management needs. - If "xargs" is not powerful enough, I use doeach (http://ostatic.com/doeach), which allows me to deal with source file's path, name, and extension separately, and it can build redirection, piping easily on the command line. E.g., piping the selected files through gz and redirect the results in another diectory, named as backup.<org_name>.`date -I`.<org_ext>. - But there are times when a visual point-and-shoot file selection system beats wildcarding. This is the only time that I need file manager, i.e., for arbitrary file selection (and operation). The file manager of my choice is PFM. it allows me to build arbitrary file operation shell command (with the arbitrary selected files). That's the main reason, when back in DOS days, I preferred pfm than NC (OK, I admit that I'm biased). For e.g., a very simple example, covert a bunch of *selected* files as .png files. PFM is able to do: covert file1.gif file1.png covert file2.Gif file2.png covert file3.JPG file3.png . . . Using a simple PFM command: convert =2 =1.png Another more simpler one is, I keep all the pictures from my digital camera on disk, but also maintain a much much smaller list of picked, good ones. I use pfm to pick the good ones, and create symlink in another directory to the pick ones. You can think of other cases as well. My point is, there is no other file manager that can help me to the above except pfm (I've (almost) tried every file manager in OSS world). Moreover, the pfm maintainer, Rene, is very helpful too. FYI, there is a new release that recently came out, with lost of good improvements. I hope everybody will find it useful, and wish that pfm will be included in grml repo. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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voxin on grml
by josh 23 Feb '09

23 Feb '09

hi, can someone give instructions on installing tt-synth or voxin onto grml and getting it to work with speakup? Josh

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debian lenny from stable to unstable
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hello Mika, i have installed grml 1.1 onto a harddisk and done every week an update/ safe-upgrade with aptitude. In the file source.list are the lines for debian set to unstable. But now lenny ist stable, can i change the this lines in the source.list file to use a stable lenny with the functions of grml/stable? The the second is, that my cyberjack (0xc4b:0x0300) will not work with chipcardd4. The cjgeldkarte will work, but geldkarte loaded will only errors. I use aqmoney 0,6.3 with an chpcard-version and openhbic on an slackware 10.2, but i don't habe found these packages for grml/debian. and compiling the sources will produces only errors. It is very difficult to find the correct words in english, ist there an german grml-mailinglist? Regards. Dietmar

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Konsolen-Frontend fuer cdrtools
by Florian Rehnisch 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Moin, im IRC hatte vor einiger Zeit mal jemand gefragt, ob es nicht ein K3B fuer die Konsole gibt. Nun, es gibt gleich zwei Konsolenfrontends fuer die cdrtools: <http://bashburn.dose.se/> <http://cdw.sf.net/> Ob die cdrkit koennen? Und wenn schon. Nur mal als Anregung, -- flori

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