http://blog.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3042 <pre>Hello, This is my third attempt at getting grml to run persistently. Previous attempts used grml2usb to install it in tandem with other OSs, first using the grub, and subsequently syslinux. Both attempts ended badly. So, the third time, it was decided to opt for the option, grml-rescueboot to get things going. 0. Get a working Linux Mint system (extended partition sdX5). fdisk -l output is provided below. 1. Copied the grml64.iso into /boot/grml 2. Set up a separate partition called grml-home ( ---"--"--- sdX10) for persistence. 3. Created persistence.conf in the / of grml-home and added all the paths as prescribed in the wiki. 4. Having already installed the grml-rescueboot package, running update-grub added the iso into the menu. 5. Reboot, and choose grml64.iso 6. In the subsequent menu, chose the persistence option 7. Was provided with the following (approximately): 8. After persistence, appended the following: persistence-label=grml-home 9. Continue boot. During the boot, the messages scroll too quickly to make out if the persistence system is mounted or not. 10. mount on the command line gives: So, grml-home is not mounted or being used at all. And cat /proc/cmdline gives: Basically, no persistence partition was mounted. Despite the label added as a boot time. :-/ I would also like to bring your attention to the empty quotes in the above cmdline screen output. Last but not the least, here is the output of fdisk, to let you know my disk configuration: So, my questions, a) is there something extra that needs doing? b) why is persistence.conf or persistence-label not being picked up and honoured ? b) why those spaces in quotes in the commandline in the final output? d) .................................. ? I would greatly appreciate any insight from your end that I might be missing here. I would like to get this thing going forward, and recognising the grml-home partition and storing all my settings for the next session would be just fantastic. Many thanks in advance. Surio. </pre> Sawbones Surio 2013-05-18T20:02:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3041 <pre>Hi, at first thanks for the good work. in my oppinion you offer the best linux live cd. but i have one thing to inprove: at your download site is written that the multiarch download size is 700MB. But infact that are 731MB to download. normaly its ok to round such sizes but at this point it isnt. im sure you know why :) so please correct this greetings and keep up the good work treaki </pre> treaki 2013-05-07T21:07:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3037 <pre>Hello. I use grml's zsh configuration on my distro. If I run the system by runlevel 1 (or 3) and type the command ls, zsh shows the following (as a normal user the same): ;root&lt; at &gt;hostname: ls [without any line breaks] The odd thing is that when I run the shell by a terminal emulator (in my case xfce4-terminal) the output is OK. set nomail on zifumuur </pre> f gr 2013-05-01T14:46:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3036 <pre>Hello. If I run the system by runlevel 1 (or 3) and type the command ls, zsh shows the following (as a normal user the same): ;root&lt; at &gt;hostname: ls [without any line breaks] The odd thing is that when I run the shell by a terminal emulator (in my case xfce4-terminal) the output is OK. set authenticate zifumuur set delivery off </pre> f gr 2013-05-01T14:36:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3034 <pre>Hi! I just wrote GRML 96 Full 2013.02 to a new USB stick and wanted to adjust the partition table. But that wasn't valid (I'll demonstrate using the ISO): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ fdisk -l /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. $ gdisk -l /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPT Your answer: 1 Warning! Main partition table overlaps the first partition by 34 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by 33 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Disk /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso: 1497088 sectors, 731.0 MiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): EE7463AF-ED0A-4537-A878-963CCF70DFD9 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1497054 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 0 sectors (0 bytes) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name $ gdisk -l /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPT Your answer: 2 Using GPT and creating fresh protective MBR. Warning! Main partition table overlaps the first partition by 34 blocks! You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility. Disk /sw/archive/grml/grml96-full_2013.02.iso: 1497088 sectors, 731.0 MiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 7A9EDD46-5620-4D0E-B375-F3D2B5CB6FC1 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1497054 Partitions will be aligned on 64-sector boundaries Total free space is 642 sectors (321.0 KiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 2 1459520 1461247 864.0 KiB 0700 卉䡏批楲d敶╛嵤›搥 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'll I can't read Chinese, maybe somebody can translate? ;-) The stick boots OK in MBR mode on a SONY VAIO with UEFI. I found strange partition tables on other ISOs, even older ones. Can you investigate how these partition tables are generated and fix that? It would be useful if you could change them on the stick with fdisk. Thank you! Lupe Christoph PS: I'll use grml2usb for now. </pre> Lupe Christoph 2013-04-21T10:13:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3030 <pre>Hello can i install the latest grml on to a harddisk? I want to use grml on a dualbootsystem with windows8. Is speakup, brltty and espeakup or speechdispatcher included in the latest grml-version and is there a switch swspeak or blrtty? Regards. Dietmar </pre> Dietmar Segbert 2013-03-28T17:51:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3020 <pre>Hi, Grml's zshrc [http://grml.org/zsh/] uses 'setopt share_history' by default since ages. This option is responsible for making the history of one Zsh session available to others "kind-of-immediately". So when sending 'echo foobar' in one terminal, then pressing e.g. &lt;return&gt; in another zsh session of the same user then cursor up will show 'echo foobar' on the command line. While I personally like the feature and somewhat got used to it it's also one of the most discussed settings of grml-zshrc. It has the potential to do harm, especially if you aren't aware of that feature. This is why I'd like to disable this setting by default (but provide it as commented feature so it's trivial to just enable it on request). Of course you will be able to just customize it via e.g. .zshrc.local, it's really just about the default behaviour. Any objections against that switch? Happy to hear your {N,}ACKs. :) regards, -mika- </pre> Michael Prokop 2013-03-25T09:47:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3018 <pre>Hello all, I cannot get persistency to work with grml 2013.02. I'm creating a live USB stick using grml2usb installed on my Debian Wheezy machine. Per the wiki, I create a 700 MB fat16 partition for grml and give the remaining space as an ext3 partition labeled "persistence". On the persistence partition is persistence.conf setup per the wiki. I execute grml2usb either with --bootoptions="persistence" or by choosing persistence from the menu at boot (same result). When booting, here's what I see on the screen: mount: mounting /dev/sda on /root/lib/live/mount/persistence/sda failed: No such device [...snip...scans sdb sdc] later I get: mounting /live/medium on /root/lib/live/mount/medium failed: Invalid argument and later: Mount point '/root/lib/live/mount/persistence/sdb1' does not exist. Skipping mount ... Am I doing something wrong somewhere in this process? If not, is there a work-around that I can use? Thank you! Josh </pre> Josh Lawrence 2013-03-14T21:57:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3017 <pre>Hello, hopefully it's not a FAQ, but at least using a major search engine didn't give me a useful pointer … From the default GRML image (2013-02) I'm missing the dump package. This package contains dump(8) and restore(8) for ext{2,3,4} file systems. Probaby using dump(8) is not really necessary, but using restore(8) is my only option sometimes. Having amanda would be great too … Is there anything I can do to get these packages into GRML? Best regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Grüße aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann </pre> Heiko Schlittermann 2013-03-08T14:12:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3015 <pre>Hello, I dont know if i got the correct mirror, but the torrent file http://download.grml.org/grml96-full_2013.02.iso.torrent thinks that there need to be something downloaded althogh i already have the correct iso with the ceaec04b29f9263e384a54cda8c3bab0 md5. I just wanted to seed something for a good project. Please check the torrent files. Thx </pre> Stephan Sperber 2013-03-02T08:37:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/3006 <pre> I can't find it anymore on the download sites? I thought I had it around, but can only find the 64bit version... -Thanks! -Tom </pre> Tom {Tomcat} Oehser 2013-02-24T01:47:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2999 <pre>Hi! I am the creator of Whonix, which is an anonymous operating system based on Tor. A Debian derivative, run by most people inside Virtual Box. grml-debootstrap is used to create the .img files with the operating system packages. It's amazing and much more convenient than using debootstrap manually, creating a vm image manually, not to speak about installing grub inside a vm image. website: http://whonix.sf.net/ source code: https://github.com/adrelanos/Whonix How can I change the path for /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list to /home/user/something? If that's not possible yet, I am missing that command line option. Running scripts inside the image doesn't work reliable to me. I mean, there are no bugs, it works, creating the image with many packages takes too long and I tend to have small mistakes in my scripts and if I want to debug my chroot script, I really can't afford recreating the whole image. It takes too long. So I created half of the stuff myself, which I am missing in grml-debootstrap, but unfortunately paths are hardcoded for Whonix. * (un)mount the image. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --mount /path/to/vm.img --to /tmp/mounted And then "cd /tmp/mounted" and look arround in the image, perhaps change a few things. After being done: grml-debootstrap --unmount /tmp/mounted * Run scripts inside the image without re-creating the image. Mouting an image, chrooting the image, running a script inside the image, unchrooting and unmounting. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --mount /path/to/vm.img --run /path/to/script.sh * Mount the image interactively. Could look like this: grml-debootstrap --interactive /path/to/vm.img grml-debootstrap could mount the image, chroot into it, open a bash shell and upon exit the bash shell, unchroot and unmount. Also mounting user defined files/folders inside chroot would be necessary. * support for .vdi and .vmdk image creation * maybe a bit far fetched: creation of Virtual Box, Qubes OS etc. virtual machine description files, .ova format, which can be deployed and imported into Virtualizers * Ubuntu support (or can it be already build from Debian?) * built in support for using apt-cacher-ng to speed up re-creating of images * a tool for installing "normal" Debian on an encrypted (USB) harddisk - Ask for which hdd to use. - Focus on external hdds. - Format the hdd. - Partition the hdd. (Personally prefer a single partition and not using extra swap partition, but a swap file instead.) - Encrypt everything, but boot, including swap using cryptsetup/dm-crypt. - Install a "normal" (fully persistent) Debian to USB using debootstrap/chroot. ("Normal" as in if you used a Debian installer CD to install to hdd.) - Allow to mount/chroot the encrypted hdd if the password is given, so extra files can be copied and extra scripts can be applied. Thanks for creating and maintaining grml. Cheers! adrelanos </pre> adrelanos 2013-02-07T11:49:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2983 <pre>Hello, I tried to setup a boot server with pxe. I followed loosely the wiki http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver for that. So far all went fine, except mounting the root over nfs4. My nfs server is version4 only, and from packet logs I see that grml tries nfs version3 only over and over. Is this a bugs or is there some trick for get it to work with nfs4? Also, as I am using the grml96 iso image via a loopback mount, I would greatly appreciate if I could use the bootmenu for isolinux also for pxelinux. To me it seems it is mainly a matter of pathnames (and maybe symlinks) to get it to work with a statement like LABEL grml-from-iso CONFIG &lt;iso-root&gt;/boot/isolinux/&lt;common.cfg&gt; APPEND &lt;&lt;iso-root&gt; from pxelinux.cfg Bye, Joerg </pre> Joerg Dorchain 2013-01-19T00:38:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2977 <pre>Just discovered grmlzshrc and am loving it.  One thing I cannot seem to figure out though is how to enable zsh history completion on up arrow that reads what I have typed and only completes matches?  For example, I type: % vim ~/bin               &lt;&lt;UPARROW&gt;&gt; The expected behavior is to autocomplete entries that begin with 'vim ~/bin' but that isn't what happens.  When I hit UPARROW the auto complete lists shows anything that started with 'vim ' which ignores the ~/bin bit. I am using Arch Linux and the Distro provided grml-zsh-config package.  The only configuration I have done is to copy /etc/skel/.zshrc to ~ Thank you! </pre> John 2013-01-19T17:34:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2972 <pre>Hi all, Just for the list cause it seems John and Gilberto haven't sent their messages over the list. I'm forwarding John's message here. The old instructions don't work anymore a quite long time as far as i know. Greetings, Simon --- Forwarded Message --- From: "John G. Heim" &lt;jheim&lt; at &gt;math.wisc.edu&gt; Subject: RE: [Grml] does grml still include speakup? Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:35:54 -0600 To: "'Simon Eigeldinger'" &lt;simon.eigeldinger&lt; at &gt;vol.at&gt; There is a page on the wiki for the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists on using the accessibility features of grml (including speakup). http://wiki.iavit.org/index.php/Accessing_grml -----Original Message----- From: grml-bounces&lt; at &gt;ml.grml.org [ mailto:grml-bounces&lt; at &gt;ml.grml.org] On Behalf Of Simon Eigeldinger Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:10 PM To: grml&lt; at &gt;ml.grml.org Subject: [Grml] does grml still include speakup? Hi all, Anyone knows if grml still contains speakup in the images? and if yes how to start that? i seem have to forgotten how to start it. greetings, simon -- Simon Eigeldinger Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/domasofan/ E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger&lt; at &gt;vol.at MSN: simon_eigeldinger&lt; at &gt;hotmail.com ICQ: 121823966 Jabber: domasofan&lt; at &gt;livejournal.com _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - Grml&lt; at &gt;ml.grml.org http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/ </pre> simon.eigeldinger< at >vol.at 2013-01-18T06:27:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2971 <pre>Hi all, Anyone knows if grml still contains speakup in the images? and if yes how to start that? i seem have to forgotten how to start it. greetings, simon </pre> Simon Eigeldinger 2013-01-17T21:10:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2967 <pre>it is possible use this with grml? because we need some chars like çÇõãÕà using utf-8? here is hardinfo environment vars in my debian squeeze 6.0.6 GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUTus intlGNOME_KEYRING_PID4846USERusradmHOME/home/usradm XDG_SESSION_COOKIE 8d20ede7783eb969b5343a030000000a-1356819828.797668-1398737120DESKTOP_SESSION gnomeGTK_MODULEScanberra-gtk-moduleGNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL/tmp/keyring-KUSiCV LOGNAMEusradmUSERNAMEusradmWINDOWPATH7GDM_LANGpt_BR.utf8PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/gamesDISPLAY:0.0LANG pt_BR.utf8XAUTHORITY/var/run/gdm3/auth-for-usradm-QmVXyF/databaseSHELL /bin/bashGDMSESSIONgnomePWD/home/usradmXDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/share/gnome:/usr/share/gdm/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/PYTHONPATH /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gammuSSH_AUTH_SOCK /tmp/keyring-KUSiCV/sshSSH_AGENT_PID5245DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-bCkKVvKSPq,guid=301a8e7eeb51b495aa132bce000012ca GPG_AGENT_INFO/tmp/seahorse-W7jZ6V/S.gpg-agent:5259:1 GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_IDthis-is-deprecatedSESSION_MANAGERlocal/brzpc2012w5:&lt; at &gt; /tmp/.ICE-unix/4871,unix/brzpc2012w5:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4871ORBIT_SOCKETDIR /tmp/orbit-usradmGTK_RC_FILES/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/usradm/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 thanks? </pre> gilberto dos santos alves 2012-12-30T00:09:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2966 <pre>Dear Grml I thoroughly understand that Grml doesn't support installation on harddisk (grml2hd). It is ok if you won't fix it. I just would like to inform you. And if it is easy to fix, I just wish maybe you would consider it. Grml 2012.05 32-bit Running as a live system, inside grml-x, it displays Thai characters properly as in screenshot grml-x-livecd.png . Running from harddisk (grml2hd), inside grml-x, it doesn't display Thai characters properly. It shows square letters instead as in screenshot grml-x-grml2hd.png . This has never happened before with other version of Grml I have been using (grml2hd). I just think that grml2hd just installs the same state as the running live Grml into harddisk. Maybe there are some more complex tasks involved? Maybe it is easy to fix? Maybe not? As I already mentioned above, I won't be upset if you won't fix this. Merry X'mas ; )))) I love Grml. -- chaitat </pre> Chaitat Pi 2012-12-25T04:47:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2958 <pre>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 </pre> Chaitat Pi 2012-12-22T05:16:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2955 <pre> To whom it may concern: I am attempting to get an answer to a question before I change back to permanently using grml as my production os. Does speakup screen reader continue to work in grml 12.05 after it has been installed on the hard drive? There was a previous version I tried and, after installation, I couldn't get it to talk again. I hope this one will. Thanks for your help. </pre> Doug Smith 2012-11-16T04:44:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/2953 <pre>Hello, I just build a customized grml-iso withgrml-live. When I shutdown or restart my fency custom grml I get a messages which tells me to remove the usb-stick and hit enter (auto shutdown / reboot within 2 minutes). Is there any way to disable this behavior? Cheers Kaj </pre> Kaj Kunstheim 2012-11-19T12:38:13 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user