http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1918 Michael Prokop 2008-12-01T22:43:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1917 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. Jason White 2008-11-30T08:28:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1916 Chaitat Piriyastit 2008-11-29T19:44:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1915 Chaitat Piriyastit 2008-11-29T19:12:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1914 Hi Michael, I sent you some patches for grml-chroot the other day, on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM, to michael.geb< at >gmx.at, but I haven't get any respond yet. Nor did I see any related update in git. I'm wondering if you have received them, and your feedback for the patches. thanks T o n g 2008-11-29T14:54:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1913 Michael Prokop 2008-11-28T16:46:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1912 Michael Prokop 2008-11-27T11:59:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1911 Michael Gebetsroither 2008-11-26T19:20:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1910 Hi list, fine I thought. First of all I extracted a grml-small squashfs. Then I chrooted to the squashfs-root created by unsquashfs to "apt-get install grml-terminalserver". Now executing the above mentioned script resulted in a minor error because "make" was not installed as a dependancy. Further on it tried to setup the chroot environment as the terminalserver which I never intended ... Finally I got a grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1.tar.bz2 containing nothing useful: grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/ grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/grub.img grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/tftpboot/ grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/tftpboot/pxelinux.0 grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/grub_enabled_nics Later I figured out a call "grml-terminalserver-config initrd" which sounded promising but which tried to loopback mount a CPIO archive ?! As far as I could see the CPIO archive was copi Markus Wigge 2008-11-26T18:33:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1909 Thank you for the details. I'll need it next week, which makes the timing of the release perfect from my point of view. I have a Debian box here that I plan to use as the tftp and nfs server for booting a laptop via PXE into grml. Jason White 2008-11-26T09:51:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1908 Michael Prokop 2008-11-26T09:14:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1907 Hello, Is there a netboot package for grml64 2008_11? If not, is there a script to create one? I may need to use PXE to boot a machine that requires a recent kernel (2.6.26 should be fine) for driver support. I've used GRML a number of times and it has always solved my problems (e.g., booting issues after making a mistake with a kernel upgrade). Also, thanks are due to the grml developers for including BRLTTY in the distribution, enabling it to work with my braille display hardware immediately on boot. Jason White 2008-11-25T23:36:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1906 Hi Thanks a lot for the new release. I just installed grml_small and it works fine. I had to tweak things and I do not know if this was due to my ignorance, if it was a feature or a bug, so I just report it: I did the harddisk install (grml_small) and I _unselected_ dhcp. I noticed on startup that pump was working, and in fact , the dhcp option was activated ( = yes ) in the autoconfig file. I also noticed that networking was not in the onlevel column (2,3,4,5) in runlevel.conf, I am not sure if this is necessary, but after the install, networking did not come up on rebooting. I also was wondering , why resolv.conf was symlinked to some other file. As far as I understood, if dhcp is not used,than resolv.conf is required and should not be overridden on startup. Finally I was wondering , if utf8 should not be the default even in grml_small (echo $LANG returns "C"). Again, please forgive if these are newbie questions and thanks for you help Peter Peter 2008-11-25T13:39:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1905 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! It was the pam.d config... damend PAM. MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer< at >cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkrvucACgkQmWhuE0qbFyNDDgCffumrmCM/qZcMzSTyWqpAY+8h Hg4An2dnQELebHN6fYXv9TnXdZYrcK+w =/6gP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Lars Schimmer 2008-11-25T09:01:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1904 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Sorry for slightly OT, but I need some help after I did not found a error. On my debian amd64 system the crond doesn't work any more. For all entries in the crontab, it writes "permission denied" into syslog. And I do not know why - any hint is appreciated. # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. # SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 28 5 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly 22 ** * *rootecho echo >>/t Lars Schimmer 2008-11-25T08:04:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1903 Hi I would like to use grml-small as a guest os under xen (Dom U). What is the recommended procedure to do this ? Do I have to start with something like xen-linux-system-2.6.26-1-xen-686 or a bare debian appliance from jailtime.org and install grml on that ? Or is there something like xxx-grml-xen-xxx ? Thanks for your help Peter Peter 2008-11-21T18:28:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1902 Michael Prokop 2008-11-17T22:36:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1901 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 Thanks for this great distri and thanks for any infos? Greetings, - Darsha Darshaka Pathirana 2008-11-17T19:39:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1900 Michael Prokop 2008-11-17T15:07:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1899 that's exactly what I was looking for. thanks mika. A new question, I see that you are still maintaining the mkisofs package mika. I'm curious why, because in Debian, the genisoimage is recommended/ enforced instead. Apart from features available in mkisof (e.g., smkzftree), the genisoimage package also includes extra tools useful for working with ISO images: * dirsplit - easily separate large directory contents into disks of predefined size * geteltorito - extract an El Torito boot image from a CD image I'm just curious... Thanks T o n g 2008-11-17T14:59:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/1898 Michael Prokop 2008-11-17T09:37:45 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user