[Grml] boring

[Michael Prokop]

* Martin Yazdzik <yazdzik at nyct.net> [20061207 17:00]:

> What a boring install!  Everything worked otob on my dell laptop, and
> the tz config, which used to cause hair pulling was one simple command
> and voila.

8-) YMMD

> While I used the ati installer, which worked perfectly to get hardware
> accel, and ndiswrapper, because the bcm4306 driver still only allows "b"
> speeds, nothing took anytime at all.

Good to hear. :)

> Now, here is the question from the idiot newbie:

> Since grml .9 installed easily and cleanly on /sda4, but, obviously, I
> could not risk the change in the production environment, can I more
> easily upgrade the existing grml .8 with all the data and config that I
> need to .9,  without a lot of brimborium, or can I somehow install lilo
> to the mbr from the newly installed grml, and use the old partition for
> data or somthing, without making a mess that a novce cannot clean up?

Well, you can upgrade your old, existing grml installation to grml
0.9 through something like 'aptitude update ; aptitude install grml
; aptitude dist-upgrade ; aptitude install linux-image-2.6.18-grml'.

Or save package list of old installation ('dpkg --get-selections >
dpkg_get_selections.oldsystem') and backup /etc of old system and do
a fresh, clean installation of grml 0.9 and restore configuration
and package selection from old installation. Of course you should
use separate partitions for all your personal data (/home, /data,
$WHATERVER).

> Is the apparent increased speed, by feel, not measured, due to newer
> kernel, better fglrx drivers, or what?

All together. ;)

You get all the features to your "old" grml installation as well if
you just upgrade all the Debian packages as well. Oh and run 'touch
/etc/ld.so.nohwcap' which improves speed as well, thanks for
investigation to Erich Minderlein, see
http://lists.mur.at/pipermail/grml/2006-November/001110.html

If you want to remove packages that have been removed in the new
release as well, or want to get packages that got part of the new
release you can use copy/paste from the release notes:

  http://grml.org/files/README-0.9.php

I'm providing the list in a format which can be easily used for
copy/paste.

regards,
-mika-
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