Jason White | 30 Nov 09:28

Re: Netboot package for grml64 2008_11

Is it possible to place grml in a chroot environment on a debian system, then
boot into it from another machine using PXE?

The advantage here is that I could make configuration changes, e.g., to have
sshd started during the boot process with my public key configured to allow
login. I could also add packages and make other configuration changes.

I noticed that there are chroot tar files of grml releases, but distributed as
tar files rather than compressed (tar.gz, tar.bz2), making them more
bandwidth-consuming to download.

Michael Prokop | 26 Nov 10:14
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Re: Netboot package for grml64 2008_11

* Jason White <jason <at> jasonjgw.net> [20081126 01:08]:

> Is there a netboot package for grml64 2008_11? If not, is there a script to
> create one?

Yeah, there's a script:

% grml-tips netboot
Create netboot package for grml-terminalserver:

# sh /usr/share/doc/grml-terminalserver/examples/create-netboot

We use that script for creating the official netboot packages as
well and we will provide official netboot packages as soon as the
stable release is on the way (which is expected to happen with the
next few days).

regards,
-mika-
* Jason White <jason <at> jasonjgw.net> [20081126 01:08]:

> Is there a netboot package for grml64 2008_11? If not, is there a script to
> create one?

Yeah, there's a script:

% grml-tips netboot
Create netboot package for grml-terminalserver:
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Darshaka Pathirana | 17 Nov 20:39

Re: How grml cd image is created

On 16.11.2008 19:34, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * T o n g <mlist4suntong <at> yahoo.com> [20081116 16:09]:
>
>> Quick question, how the grml cd image is created (from a directory)?
>
> grml-live -a i386 -s sid -c GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,LATEX_CLEANUP,RELEASE,I386 \
>           -o /grml-live/grml2008.11-rc1 -v 2008.11-rc1 -g grml \
>           -r Schluchtenscheisser $BUILDONLY -V

Ok. This is also something I wanted to ask a few times...

But what makes me really curios is the following:

It seems that grml-live downloads all the necessary packages from
debian/sid acccording to the configuration block
(GRMLBASE,GRML,etc.) (and maybe customizes some configuration?).

So here's the tricky part: how can I force to create the exactly
same grml-version with exactly the same package-versions when going
on in time? How can I be sure that the same package versions are in
grml2008.11-rc1 one week later (where possibly some packages have
been updated in sid)?

The second question is how the grml-kernel(-package) is created and
maintained with it configuration and all its patches?  I found
grml-kernel.git (and the build-scripts) in the git-repos[1] but is
there really nothing like git-buildpackage for debian-kernels?

[1] http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-kernel.git;a=summary

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T o n g | 17 Nov 06:13
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Re: How grml cd image is created

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:34:59 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:

>> Quick question, how the grml cd image is created (from a directory)?
> 
> grml-live -a i386 -s sid -c
> GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,LATEX_CLEANUP,RELEASE,I386 \
>           -o /grml-live/grml2008.11-rc1 -v 2008.11-rc1 -g grml \ -r
>           Schluchtenscheisser $BUILDONLY -V

thanks mika, 

I meant to ask, what exact genisoimage command within grml-live is used 
to create from the grml-live bootstraped directory into the cd image iso 
file. 

thanks

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T o n g | 16 Nov 16:02
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How grml cd image is created

Hi,

Quick question, how the grml cd image is created (from a directory)?

A side question, is there any way to search the grml source code (in git 
or ...)?

http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-
live.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=genisoimage

this only searches the commit comments.

thanks

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Hart Larry | 14 Nov 16:32

GRML-and-Spelling Issues with Speakup?

Well, I am considering upgrading, but I wonder if an issue with Speakup is 
fixed in GRML, where when reading, I mostly hear words spelled instead of 
pronounced.
When searching an archive of Speakup, there are mentions of pre-empting a 
colonel.
Thanks in advance for any tips in fixing this
Hart
T o n g | 12 Nov 16:45
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grml kernel, pxeboot and nfsroot

Hi,

I'm wondering if the default grml kernel is capable for pxeboot and 
nfsroot. 

There is only one thread in grml mlist mentioning pxeboot
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/820

but I'm not sure what the conclusion is. Specifically, is the grml kernel 
built with the following features enabled as modules?

# DHCP support

CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y

# NFS client support

CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO=y

# NFS root support

CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y

Also CONFIG_AUFS_EXPORT should be enabled too, for me to export aufs as 
nfsroot from the server.

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Darshaka Pathirana | 9 Nov 13:18

dpkg-dev conflicts with devscripts (< 2.10.26)

Hi!

Just encountered a problem while trying to upgrade some packages. I
am using a grml2hd by grml 1.0 which have been upgraded a few times
and is now set to Debian/lenny in the sources.list:

% grep -v "^\s*#\|^\s*$" /etc/apt/sources.list

  deb     http://deb.grml.org/ grml-1.1 main
  deb-src http://deb.grml.org/ grml-1.1 main
  deb     http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/mirror/debian        lenny        main contrib non-free
  deb-src     http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at/mirror/debian        lenny        main contrib non-free
  deb     http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

I usualy use grml-testing but also tried grml-1.0 / grml-1.0-updates
and grml‐1.1.

So here the problem:

% apt-cache policy dpkg-dev

dpkg-dev:
  Installed: 1.14.12
  Candidate: 1.14.22
  Version table:
     1.14.22 0
        500 http://ftp.tu-graz.ac.at lenny/main Packages
 *** 1.14.12 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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martin yazdzik | 8 Nov 14:02

ssb as usual

Dear Friends at grml,

The really good news is that now my dell latitude d830 boots and runs from the live cd, no problems.

Now, like many dell, hp products, the lovely, incomparable, almost Kaerntnerisch' bcm 4300 series chips still really need ndiswrapper, which means the last three lines of a blacklist are ssb, b43, b44. 

Now, for the terminally stupid amongst us, to wit me, is there an init script which we could call, either on the live cd or once installed, to make it possible for the really large numbers of bcm prisoners to run ndiswrapper without a lot of trouble.  The reason I ask is that in using the live disk to work on these kinds of laptops for administrative purposes(in other words, non IT workers screw something up ) only one "blacklist=blahblah" seems to work at boot of the live cd.  This means that the very first commands, after happy hacking must be rmmod blah blah, which is find, unless a yazdzik forgets so to do. 

Thus, we need a grml script to use ndiswrapper which rmmods the offenders, grml-screwbcm or something that, useable at startup.

Or not, as the case may be.

Thanks, Mika and friends for another superb job.

Best wishes,

Martin
<div>
Dear Friends at grml,<br><br>
The really good news is that now my dell latitude d830 boots and runs from the live cd, no problems.<br><br>
Now, like many dell, hp products, the lovely, incomparable, almost Kaerntnerisch' bcm 4300 series chips still really need ndiswrapper, which means the last three lines of a blacklist are ssb, b43, b44.&nbsp; <br><br>
Now, for the terminally stupid amongst us, to wit me, is there an init script which we could call, either on the live cd or once installed, to make it possible for the really large numbers of bcm prisoners to run ndiswrapper without a lot of trouble.&nbsp; The reason I ask is that in using the live disk to work on these kinds of laptops for administrative purposes(in other words, non IT workers screw something up  ) only one "blacklist=blahblah" seems to work at boot of the live cd.&nbsp; This means that the very first commands, after happy hacking must be rmmod blah blah, which is find, unless a yazdzik forgets so to do.&nbsp; <br><br>
Thus, we need a grml script to use ndiswrapper which rmmods the offenders, grml-screwbcm or something that, useable at startup.<br><br>
Or not, as the case may be.<br><br>
Thanks, Mika and friends for another superb job.<br><br>
Best wishes,<br><br>
Martin
</div>
Michael Prokop | 4 Nov 17:36
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grml release candidate 1 of version 2008.11

Hi!

I'm proud to be able to present release candidate 1 of the upcoming
stable release 2008.11 - available in all the different grml flavours.
New features? Tons of new features! Including an update of
grml-small - and we even provide a 64bit version of grml-small now!

Release Notes for grml 2008.11[-rc1] - codename "Schluchtenscheisser":

  http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2008.11/

Disclaimer: The release notes for the other flavours aren't
available yet, but the most important stuff can be found in the
above release notes anyway.

The following flavours are available from the devel directory of
grml's mirrors:

  grml_2008.11-rc1.iso           667M
  grml-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso    178M
  grml-small_2008.11-rc1.iso      75M
  grml64_2008.11-rc1.iso         687M
  grml64-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso  187M
  grml64-small_2008.11-rc1.iso    77M

Grab them from one of our mirrors: http://grml.org/download/#mirrors

Known issues of 2008.11-rc1 can be found at:

  http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate

Please report any bug you notice so we can provide stable releases
to you soon!

  http://grml.org/bugs/

Enjoy grml!

regards,
-mika-
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Hi!

I'm proud to be able to present release candidate 1 of the upcoming
stable release 2008.11 - available in all the different grml flavours.
New features? Tons of new features! Including an update of
grml-small - and we even provide a 64bit version of grml-small now!

Release Notes for grml 2008.11[-rc1] - codename "Schluchtenscheisser":

  http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2008.11/

Disclaimer: The release notes for the other flavours aren't
available yet, but the most important stuff can be found in the
above release notes anyway.

The following flavours are available from the devel directory of
grml's mirrors:

  grml_2008.11-rc1.iso           667M
  grml-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso    178M
  grml-small_2008.11-rc1.iso      75M
  grml64_2008.11-rc1.iso         687M
  grml64-medium_2008.11-rc1.iso  187M
  grml64-small_2008.11-rc1.iso    77M

Grab them from one of our mirrors: http://grml.org/download/#mirrors

Known issues of 2008.11-rc1 can be found at:

  http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate

Please report any bug you notice so we can provide stable releases
to you soon!

  http://grml.org/bugs/

Enjoy grml!

regards,
-mika-
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Dietmar Segbert | 31 Oct 18:57
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memset was not declared

Hello,

i have to try compile some programs under grml 1.1.
After running make, i become some error messages memset was not declared  
in this scope.

any ideas wht to do? google shows a bug in the gcc, but nothing what to  
do, to fix that.

Regards.

Dietmar

Gmane