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
Chaitat Pi chaitatp@gmail.com wrote:
What should I do to have a Grml desktop?
This question was recently asked on the list. Apparently, GRML is now focused on being a rescue/recovery environment, not a general-purpose Linux distribution. The recommendation is to install Debian, which you can do after booting your GRML distribution, of course, by running grml-debootstrap.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, Jason White wrote:
Chaitat Pi chaitatp@gmail.com wrote:
What should I do to have a Grml desktop?
This question was recently asked on the list. Apparently, GRML is now focused on being a rescue/recovery environment, not a general-purpose Linux distribution. The recommendation is to install Debian, which you can do after booting your GRML distribution, of course, by running grml-debootstrap.
in fact we never really supported grml2hd. We never intended to have an installable distribution.
Alex
* Jason White jason@jasonjgw.net [121221 22:45]:
This question was recently asked on the list. Apparently, GRML is now focused on being a rescue/recovery environment, not a general-purpose Linux distribution. The recommendation is to install Debian, which you can do after booting your GRML distribution, of course, by running grml-debootstrap.
I installed GRML to hardrive on a laptop a while back (grml-version tells me "grml 2011.05 Release Codename Just Mari [2011.05.29]). I've been doing the regular `aptitude dist-upgrade` with the official Debian repository ( http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ ), am currently running the 3.2.0-3-686-pae kernel, etc...so AFAIK it's more or less an up-to-date Debian Sid. It's been working fine, but given that installing grml to hardrive is not recommended or supported, I'm wondering if I should convert my system over to straight-up Debian and how complicated that might be. An `aptitude purge grml` will remove the grml package, but I'm not sure that really does much in this regard.
TIA for any clarification,
John
Chaitat Pi wrote:
Dear Grml
[...]
What should I do to have a Grml desktop?
I personally build my own version of grml using grml-live (adding my favorite extra software in the process), then put the resulting ISO on a USB disk, then I boot from there. If you use the "toram=grml.squashfs" boot option, you don't loose much performance (compared to a disk installation).
Ciao, Thomas
Thanks for your idea. On Dec 22, 2012 6:31 PM, "Thomas Köhler" jean-luc@picard.franken.de wrote:
Chaitat Pi wrote:
Dear Grml
[...]
What should I do to have a Grml desktop?
I personally build my own version of grml using grml-live (adding my favorite extra software in the process), then put the resulting ISO on a USB disk, then I boot from there. If you use the "toram=grml.squashfs" boot option, you don't loose much performance (compared to a disk installation).
Ciao, Thomas
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Hello,
if you put a labeled partition on the usb media (keywords: persistency & GRMLCFG) and boot with the right options, it can be feel like a grml desktop. You can combine the self-builded grml-iso with grml-rescueboot to provide it on a hardware system. Regards, bionix
Chaitat Pi chaitatp@gmail.com schrieb:
Thanks for your idea. On Dec 22, 2012 6:31 PM, "Thomas Köhler" jean-luc@picard.franken.de wrote:
Chaitat Pi wrote:
Dear Grml
[...]
What should I do to have a Grml desktop?
I personally build my own version of grml using grml-live (adding my favorite extra software in the process), then put the resulting ISO on a USB disk, then I boot from there. If you use the "toram=grml.squashfs" boot option, you don't loose much performance (compared to a disk installation).
Ciao, Thomas
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