Hello and thank you to the grml team. With the help of a friend here I have grml running nicely on a pendrive, I was even fortunate enough to have a laptop that had 1 of 3 supported wireless cards, just have to tpe dhclient and speechd-up after bootup How much like a normal linux install is grml now that I have it running on a pendrive. Have any users tried installing extra packages? Maybe we could consider a larger image specifically for pendrive users with more programs installed. Have a question though, How can I change the keyboard to Dvorak. Keep up the good work maybe after I learn linux I might have more constructive things to say. Kevin
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Re: new on grlm; questions about version 0.6 (Michael Prokop) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:38:20 +0100 From: "william windels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Grml] new on grlm; questions about version 0.6 To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I am new on the grml distribution but I work already 2 years with linux. I am completely blind and I use brltty as screenreader. 1: at the moment I have running the grml distribution 0.6 with mutt 1.5.11 , sendmail, procmail and postfix as mta. Before , I was working with exim (version 3) as mta on a other distribution. Is it not possible to configure mutt to work alone for the following things: - send and receive mail (without external mta) - sort the mail in different mailboxes conform the filters? - each user with his own <;muttrc-file? For example, you can do this with outlook express on ms windows: to send and receive mail, you need only your login with pasword from your provider to receive your mail and the smtp-server from the provider. You can also create filters to sort the incomming mails. But, I love linux much more than windows :) There are also such programs on the x-windows-system I think but I am completely blind and I can not work with x-windows because of that. I can only work with console-programs. 2: perhaps it should be a good idea to add some new function(s) to the user-configuration: - a way to create new users for root: - a way to update the security packages available - perhaps a way to (re)compile the kernel on a user-friendly based system? 3: mounting devices automatically from fstab: As Michael prokop said already , I can not change mountpoints of found devices during hd_install. This is explained with the following lines: # Warning! Please do *not* change any lines below #because they are auto-generated by rebuildfstab! How can I simply change mount-points of found devices so that they are automatically mounted in the new mountpoints after next reboot? If I do rebuildfstab after changing the mountpoints , I receive no message but the devices are not launched automatically. 4: text-packages: Is it not possible to add a configuration-option to the hd_install so that only text-related packages are installed? Perhaps, the packages could be stored in 2 compressed parts on the cd: one for the consolestuff and one for the x-windows system. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:07:35 +0100 From: Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Grml] new on grlm; questions about version 0.6 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii * william windels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060219 22:45]: > I am new on the grml distribution but I work already 2 years with linux. > I am completely blind and I use brltty as screenreader. > 1: at the moment I have running the grml distribution 0.6 with mutt 1.5.11 , > sendmail, procmail and postfix as mta. > Before , I was working with exim (version 3) as mta on a other distribution. > Is it not possible to configure mutt to work alone for the following things: > - send and receive mail (without external mta) > - sort the mail in different mailboxes conform the filters? > - each user with his own <;muttrc-file? > For example, you can do this with outlook express on ms windows: to send and > receive mail, you need only your login with pasword from your provider to > receive your mail and the smtp-server from the provider. > You can also create filters to sort the incomming mails. > But, I love linux much more than windows :) First of all take a look at grml-mutt or grml-muttng to configure some basics of mutt or mutt-ng. (Backup your ~/.muttrc first to make sure you don't overwrite anything.) To send mail take a look at msmtp, a sample configuration file is shipped with grml: ~/.msmtprc Filter your mail using procmail. Take a look at http://michael-prokop.at/computer/config/.procmailrc http://michael-prokop.at/computer/config/.procmail/sort-rc to get an idea how to use it. > 2: perhaps it should be a good idea to add some new function(s) to the > user-configuration: > - a way to create new users Just run 'adduser mynewuser'. > for root: > - a way to update the security packages available Take a look at debsecan. It requires some scripting work to get only security related packages in Debian unstable, that's difficult by design. > - perhaps a way to (re)compile the kernel on a user-friendly based system? Don't compile the kernel on your own unless you have a *really* good reason to do that. That's the work of the distributor, not really an end-user task with kernel 2.6. Anyway, getting kernel sources and using 'make menuconfig' *is* user-friendly. :) Also take a look at make-kpkg. > 3: mounting devices automatically from fstab: > As Michael prokop said already , I can not change mountpoints of found > devices during hd_install. > This is explained with the following lines: > # Warning! Please do *not* change any lines below > #because they are auto-generated by rebuildfstab! > How can I simply change mount-points of found devices > so that they are automatically mounted in the new mountpoints after next > reboot? > If I do rebuildfstab after changing the mountpoints , I receive no message > but the devices are not launched automatically. As the manpage of rebuildfstab says: rebuildfstab uses the tool scanpartition to scan for devices located in /dev and adds entries for devices / partitions which are not available in /etc/fstab yet. It does not mount any partitions automatically. If you want to use /dev/hda2 as your home partition, take the entry for /dev/hda2 from /etc/fstab and move it to the top of the /etc/fstab. *Everything* below the "warning-line" will be deleted by next run of rebuildfstab. If you don't want the rebuildfstab feature set CONFIG_FSTAB='no' in /etc/grml/autoconfig. Example how to use /dev/hda2 with filesystem ext3 as /home would be: /dev/hda2 /home ext3 defaults 0 0 > 4: text-packages: > Is it not possible to add a configuration-option to the hd_install so that > only text-related packages are installed? No chance, as the installation is nothing else than copying the whole system to the disk and do some other adjustments. > Perhaps, the packages could be stored in 2 compressed parts on the cd: one > for the consolestuff and one for the x-windows system. Sorry, that's not an option for me. Just run 'apt-get remove xserver-xorg' to remove the X-window system on your installation. Catching the other x-related stuff should be possible via using the magic of debtags. regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/ End of Grml Digest, Vol 10, Issue 14 ************************************ _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
