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daily-grml base.tgz file
by T o n g 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hi, I know there is two version of base.tgz files from http://daily.grml.org/. I downloaded http://daily.grml.org/base.tgz, not the 64b version, but its hostname contains "amd64.grml.org". Is it just the etc/hostname file alone, or there are more problems to the base.tgz file? PS. How do I know if my AMD is running in 32b or 64b mode? Thanks. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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qdiff any chance?
by T o n g 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hi, First of all, thank you mika for answering my previous question. Now, Is there any recommended binary files differ that can detect binary insertions/deletions/substitutions with colorful output? Here is the one that I found most useful. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.lsm qdiff - Compare two binary files and print differences in various ways, very colorful output (insertions/deletions/substitutions), simple yet effective syncro engine, may be very slow, useful and fast for large files with few differences (e.g. verifying correctness of grabbed cdda data) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.tar.gz any chance to include it in our repo? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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knoppix-like bootfrom in gmrl?
by Albretch Mueller 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hi, ~ I was looking for a Unicode/utf-8 based LiveCD and apparently gmrl looks like it ~ The thing is that knoppix does not offer Unicode support and I was getting weird results while coding for Unicode data ~ I use knoppix a lot and got used to most of its ways to do things ~ So, where is the old good bootfrom=/dev/<your device>/knoppix.iso ;-) ~ Based on my personal expirience CDs and CD-ROM drives are heavily taxed by LiveCDs and start failing with cloop I/O errors pretty quickly, that is why I always go for the bootfrom cheatcode, keep a small partition just for the ISO and use lots of RAM ~ Thanks lbrtchx

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/dev, udev and backup
by T o n g 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Hi, Do I need to backup the /dev directory when backing up my root fs? FYI, I thought udev would populate it on boot up so I didn't backup the /dev directory. However, I got Warning: unable to open initial console and the boot froze. Going through all the possible reasons in http://kerneltrap.org/node/2205 did I realize that my /dev directory should be backed up & populated. Please comment. Thanks. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml in a multi-boot environment
by DON.RAIKES＠oracle.com 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Hello, I have a multi-boot system containing fedora 9, and enterprise linux 5. I want ot add grml to this system so that I can customize it. The current system has a boot partition /dev/sda1, and both the fedora and enterprise linux systems use grub. How can I tell grml2hd to install grml into a partition on this system and use the /boot partition for its boot partition, and to add grml to the grub menu.lst file?

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grml and booting via pxe
by Philipp Flesch 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hi! I was wondering how to get grml_1.1.iso booting via pxe. I've already ... ... unpacked the iso to /exports/grml ... access via network to 10.10.0.103:/exports/grml ... read http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver and ... downloaded http://grml.org/terminalserver/grml_netboot_package_1.1.tar.bz2 (and installed it) ... found http://www.mail-archive.com/grml@mur.at/msg00802.html Now ... that are the right parameters in pxelinux.cfg/default? APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml boot=live lang=us nomce quiet apm=power-off nodhcp noprompt noeject initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> can't access tty ==> problem mounting live file system APPEND ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/etc/init nfsdir=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml nodhcp noprompt noeject apm=power-off nomce initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> brings grml up to "Begin: Waiting for the root file system ..." Where to find the fault? Philipp

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grml newbie
by DON.RAIKES＠oracle.com 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hello, I have been a unix/linux user for roughly 15 years, but have just recently learned about the concepts and power behind grml (yesterday). I am blind, and an very pleased with the integration of speakup and brltty into the grml live cd. My first "job" with grml is to try to diagnose/recover a windows laptop. It had problems right from the beginning when we opened the box from the manufacturer, but my daughter was able to keep it going for 2.5 yerars. This spring it simply stopped booting even after a full re-install of windows. Any tips on system diagnostics that I could run would be appreciated.

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IRC-log contents related to hardware problem
by Keith Hinton 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hello all, I have an AMD64-bit box with an interesting hardware quirk. Hear is the contents of and IRC log, and hopefully this helps. Suggestions, please! <Keith-BlindUser> Hello all. I have an odd quirk in my hardware on another box. <Keith-BlindUser> I need assistance in troubleshooting the issue, and har it is. <Keith-BlindUser> hear <Keith-BlindUser> Note: I only speak english, not German, so.. <Keith-BlindUser> Hear goes. <Keith-BlindUser> The GRML CD boots, or starts too, sort of. Then, the CD hangs, at: "Mounting TMPFS." The word "Segmentation Fault" appears next to that. I have had someone read me the screen. <Keith-BlindUser> The amount of RAM int he other box is 1G or 1024M. But the box does this constantly. I would run memtest86, but have had noone available to read me any possible errors with the RAM. <Keith-BlindUser> I've ran Memtest multiple times. <Keith-BlindUser> But I'm not just going to give up without a fight. <Keith-BlindUser> So I want to know if posible any kernel command-line arguments I could try <Keith-BlindUser> It may be bad RAM, but I'm not simply going to take that for an answer until I have ran out of possibilities. **End of IRC log Contents. **Regards, --Keith

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Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion
by Cleverson 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hello I suggest, if possible, that grml2hd detects automatically other OSes on the hard disk and sets up lilo/grub accordingly during the installation. Here I have Windows XP on the first partition - /dev/sda1 - but I don't know how to deal with lilo. I was thinking that grml2hd would prompt me for choosing grub instead of lilo, but it didn not, perhaps because I've installed grml onto a logical partition ? I know how to setup grub for dual-booting and for booting Linux into a primary partition. I guess that setting it up on a logical partition is somewhat different, since I have typed "root(hd0,5)" at the grub console in order to setup the root device to /dev/sda6, and grub has returned "unknown filesystem type". Does anyone have any tip for me? Cheers Cleverson

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[gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project
by Maurice McCarthy 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

For information only. Firefox 3 will end support for the gopher protocol. A firefox addon has been written from scratch over the last few months, as below. Regards Moss ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> ----- Subject: [gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project (and other announcements) From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) To: gopher(a)complete.org This message is really, really long. Here goes: ** OverbiteFF for Firefox 3: "RTM" With the release of Firefox 3 RC2, I took the wraps off OverbiteFF. This is the release version, 1.0-1381. It does have some small changes, including a bug fix for port access, additional explicit ports and CSS tweaks, so it is a recommended download if you are still using -1380. We'll see if anyone gets the joke on the build number. ;-) You can now preview the Overbite Project pages. There are HTTP and Gopher versions: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/ (These are not publicly announced yet, but you can access them.) The HTTP and Gopher pages are largely drawn from the same data store, so people will get mostly the same views. Additional language packs are still being accepted from translators and I will gladly add them to OverbiteFF 1.1. ** Calling for OverbiteFF skins If you are or you were making your own skin for OverbiteFF, I would love to host them. I think this would give people something fun to play with -- I know Avery wanted some interface changes: Avery, did you come up with something of your own? The skins folder is here: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/files/skins I'm going to be playing with this a little myself, but I'd love some community contributions. ** Mozilla Gopher activism When Firefox 3 is released, I will be putting the FF3 add-on up to the Mozilla official add-ons site, and then petitioning bug #388195 for one of the following: - Permission to backport the JavaScript to Core and then the add-on can go away. I am doubtful, however, that this would be permitted given the response by Brendan Eich. However, it had been suggested before. or, - Get the add-on into the release notes for FF4. I don't see how they could regard this as unreasonable. The other thing that will need to be done is to remind them that Gopher support must stay in 1.9. This was stated by Brendan in the thread. I'll notify the list to watch this bug when I start making announcements there to make sure they keep to it. ** Firefox 2 version (and later Camino 1.6 version) For Firefox 2.0 owners, now that the FF3 version is finalized, I am working on backporting it to 2.0.0.14. This should actually not take very long; if I did it right, there should be only two or three areas that need changing. I hope to have an FF2 beta within a couple of weeks. FF2 will use the same language packs as FF3. The Camino version will follow but there are some additional technical issues due to that browser's very limited add-on support. Skins should also work in FF2, but some of the Cairo-based rendering will probably not. ** bucktooth 0.2.5 Finally, bucktooth 0.2.5 should be released later today or this weekend with some important fixes, so stay tuned. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- Born free. Taxed to death. ------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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