[Grml] Grml 2011.05 released

2011-05-29 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi Grml fans, on behalf of the Grml team I'm proud to announce a new stable release: Grml 2011.05 with codename Just Mari, available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32bit and 64bit version has been released. The official release announcement has all the details:

Re: [Grml] grml64-small upgrade error

2011-04-11 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi Xi, please subscribe to the mailinglist before sending mails, otherwise it's going through list moderation and can take some time ;) * Xi Shen [Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 07:27:41PM +0800]: I ran 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade', and I got the following error: dpkg: warning: parsing file

Re: [Grml] grml-x, xorg ...

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, * Dietmar Segbert [Sun Mar 06, 2011 at 03:07:00PM +0100]: i have installed grml squeeze on a asus eeepc 1005ha-m. I sue speakup and brltty, because i am blind. Now i want to use gnomes-orca with firefox and openoffice with gnome. At the moment i do not have installed gnome. If i do:

Re: [Grml] Trying to boot grml ISO image with grml-rescueboot fails

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* Frédéric Boiteux fboit...@calistel.com [Mon Feb 21, 2011 at 10:40:00AM +0100]: Le 18/02/2011 18:25, Michael Prokop a écrit : Can you please try adding the following code after line 36 to /etc/grub.d/42_grml: $(prepare_grub_to_access_device ${GRUB_DEVICE_BOOT}) | sed -e s

Re: [Grml] Trying to boot grml ISO image with grml-rescueboot fails

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Prokop
* Frédéric Boiteux fboit...@calistel.com [Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 08:24:20AM +0100]: I don't know GRML yet, but I've heard about it in Mikas' blog (http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/01/07/booting-iso-images-from-within-grub2/) and liked to try it, so I installed grml-rescueboot (0.2.0 version)

Re: [Grml] dupmerge - : Value too large for defined data type

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 12:42:26AM +]: On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:59:54 +0700, hansbkk wrote: Here's a good overview: http://www.asheesh.org/note/software/duplicate-files.html which he picked rdfind as the winner. My vote would be for freedup and rdfind.

[Grml] Grml User Survey 2011: Help us make Grml better

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi! As a result of our Grml developer meeting (see meeting minutes at http://grml.org/reports/devmeeting_2010/ for details) we created a user survey to get more information about our users and their needs. Please take part in our survey and help us to improve and enhance Grml:

Re: [Grml] Is nss-ldap missing from grml 2010.04 ?

2011-01-02 Thread Michael Prokop
* jonty g...@jonmail.co.uk [Sun Jan 02, 2011 at 03:01:23PM +]: I have been using grml for the last couple of months. I am building a network of about 20 machines, all running grml, and I want them to share a single set of login names and passwords. Nice! :) So I decided to configure

Re: [Grml] Boot from iso option not working with grub2

2010-11-18 Thread Michael Prokop
* Theodotos Andreou theodotos.andr...@cut.ac.cy [Thu Nov 18, 2010 at 07:17:36PM +0200]: Guys I want to have a grml small iso under the /boot/iso partition in Debian 6.0 with Grub2. My config in /boot/grub/grub.cfg is: menuentry 'grml' { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set

Re: [Grml] grml-rebuildfstab does append instead of replace

2010-08-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 09:19:28PM +]: On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:31:02 +, T o n g wrote: Each time I call rebuildfstab, the newly built entries are added to my / etc/fstab, instead of replacing the old ones. Use -r: -r, --remove

Re: [Grml] grml-live, package list question

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 04:34:22AM +]: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:38:09 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Wild guess: might be because you don't provide debconf preseeding for accepting the license of the sun java package. BINGO! Would you be so kind to tell me

Re: [Grml] Using grml to build a stacked Debian Live system

2010-07-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 04:21:19AM +]: [...] But why stacked you may ask first. [...] Note, the above is for illustration purpose only. Substitute with your own CLASS or path please. Thanks for the detailled instructions, Tong. I had no time to give it a

Re: [Grml] grml-live, package list question

2010-07-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Tue Jul 27, 2010 at 01:58:13PM +]: When are dpkg.list dpkg.selections generated, before chroot installation or after it? The files are generated in one of the final steps before the squashfs file will be generated, it should catch what will be shipped

Re: [Grml] The class grml-live concept

2010-07-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Wed Jul 21, 2010 at 03:01:41PM +]: From man page: For example if you want to use your own class named FOOBAR just set CLASSES=GRMLBASE,GRML_SMALL,I386 inside /etc/grml/grml-live.local or invoke grml-live using the classes option: grml-live -c

Re: [Grml] grml-live, specifying GRML_LIVE_SOURCES

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Thu Jul 22, 2010 at 03:49:53AM +]: Is it possible to *add to* current GRML_LIVE_SOURCES setting? I tried, GRML_LIVE_SOURCES=$GRML_LIVE_SOURCES # debian multimedia deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free . . . but got

Re: [Grml] grml-live questions

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 11:49:31PM +]: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:28:24 +, T o n g wrote: I did a test run, but got some error at the end . . . My CD was successfully build by grml-live. Detailed log at http://paste.grml.org/44/ However, the CD isn't

Re: [Grml] grml-live package_config files

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 10:49:29PM +]: Does the grml-live package_config files support line end comments? e.g., a_debian_package # line end comment that explains what it is Yes. regards, -mika- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Grml] grml-live questions

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 11:49:31PM +]: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:28:24 +, T o n g wrote: I did a test run, but got some error at the end . . . My CD was successfully build by grml-live. Detailed log at http://paste.grml.org/44/ However, the CD isn't

Re: [Grml] About grml bootid

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Wed Jul 21, 2010 at 03:56:24PM +]: On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:24:00 +0200, Ulrich Dangel wrote: - how would bootid work with integrating multiple-grml on the same USB? grml2usb takes care of it. Basically the process is: If no /conf/bootid.txt is

Re: [Grml] grml_2010.04 and aufs-tools

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Sun Jul 18, 2010 at 04:13:35AM +]: May I know why grml_2010.04 dropped the aufs-tools package? It's not big but provides stackable file-systems. m...@lunge ~ggit/grml-live (git)-[master] % git grep aufs-tools | grep Drop debian/changelog:- Drop

Re: [Grml] working parallel with grml-live

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Wed Jul 14, 2010 at 03:38:17PM +]: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:48:10 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: How is grml-live officially used to create daily snapshot CDs (for amd64 grml-small grml-medium)? Check out buildd/ in grml-live's git tree, or directly

Re: [Grml] grml-live questions

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Wed Jul 14, 2010 at 03:15:17PM +]: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:48:10 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: grml-live -o /dev/shm -c GRMLBASE,GRML_SMALL,amd64 -s sid ^ This isn't a valid class name. That's why you

Re: [Grml] grml-live questions

2010-07-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Mit Jul 14, 2010 at 05:28:24 +]: How is grml-live officially used to create daily snapshot CDs (for amd64 grml-small grml-medium)? Check out buildd/ in grml-live's git tree, or directly install package grml-live-buildd. I did a test run, but got some

Re: [Grml] dmesg is empty

2010-07-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 04:16:29PM +]: IIRC, the /var/log/dmesg file is empty when booting into grml. Can anyone confirm this? How can I fix it so that my device info is retained? That's because we don't invoke /etc/init.d/bootlogs in live mode. Why would

Re: [Grml] grub2 loopback feature

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Prokop
* Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth l...@strike.wu.ac.at [Thu Jun 17, 2010 at 09:46:28PM +0200]: Is there a way to make grub jump to the existing /boot/grub/grub.cfg in the ISO and show its contents as a submenu? I am trying to branch to grmls own grub configuration: 8

Re: [Grml] grub2 loopback feature

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Thu Jun 17, 2010 at 05:14:40PM +]: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:38:59 +0200, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: I'd like to use the loopback feature of grub2 to boot a grml iso-image that resides on a USB drive. IIRC, mika wrote about it in his blog,

Re: [Grml] bug report from grml-medium

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Thu Jun 03, 2010 at 04:54:18PM +]: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:45:08 +1000, Jason White wrote: Does anyone know some small-footprint browser that can let me paste into web forms? lynx Thanks Jason. @mika, lynx is a tool that I miss in grml-medium for

Re: [Grml] aufs-modules for grml 2010.04 release

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Sun Jun 06, 2010 at 04:54:49AM +]: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:49:35 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Grml 2010.04 with codename Grmlmonster The Grml 2010.04 uses kernel v2.6.33, but I didn't find the corresponding aufs-modules-2.6.33 or aufs-modules-2.6.33

Re: [Grml] aufs-modules for grml 2010.04 release

2010-06-06 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Sun Jun 06, 2010 at 10:48:58PM +]: On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:19:04 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: How do I get aufs support under Grml 2010.04? It's included in the kernel: Ok, no stand-alone aufs-modules any more. Nice. Jepp, though no guarantees

Re: [Grml] bug report from grml-medium

2010-06-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* Tong Sun mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [Mon May 31, 2010 at 08:55:10PM -0700]: How to do bug report from grml-medium? I mean, I can't paste into link2, and I don't want to re-type everything character by character. Does anyone know some small-footprint browser that can let me paste into web

[Grml] Grml 2010.04 released

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi Grml fans, on behalf of the Grml team, I'm proud to announce a new stable release: Grml 2010.04 with codename Grmlmonster, available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32bit and 64bit version has been released. The official release announcements providing all the

Re: [Grml] Call for Help: Grml's Download webpage

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Prokop
* Samat K Jain li...@samat.org [Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 10:51:21PM -0600]: On Sunday 11 April 2010 02:04:17 pm, Ulrich Dangel wrote: IMHO it should really be more like a wizard, e.g. select 32/64bit, the flavor (small/medium/normal) and then probably (?) the version, stable, rc, daily images.

[Grml] Call for Help: Grml's Download webpage

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi! We need your help! http://grml.org/download/ sucks from user's POV. Too overloaded, rc vs. stable not clearly visible,.. We'd like to see that page improved. I for myself like the way Ubuntu is doing that with http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download We already have a GeoIP setup for our

Re: [Grml] Set resolution of grml-small in Virtualbox

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* Peter Falter sowos...@gmail.com [Fri Mar 12, 2010 at 12:28:54PM +0100]: i am constrained to use M$ XP in a training course, but allowed to have Virtualbox. So i took a daily snapshot with debian/sid flavour, 2.6.33 kernel, started succesfully, installed to HD and booted several times. I

Re: [Grml] grml-debootstrap problems

2010-02-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [Mon Feb 15, 2010 at 02:29:09PM +]: I am trying to install debian using grml-debootstrap but I get an error about it not finding MAKEDEV. I retried but adding the makedev package to /etc/debootstrap/packages but it still fails with the error. Infact

Re: [Grml] grml-debootstrap problems

2010-02-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [Mon Feb 15, 2010 at 05:41:54PM +]: I attach the config file I am using, I don't give any extra options to grml-debootstrap. The error message isn't very descriptive, I get the message about it creating generic devices in /dev (something like that)

[Grml] Announce: Grml developer mailinglist

2010-02-12 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, I just wanted to inform you that we have a new mailinglist - the Grml developer mailinglist: http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-devel We will discuss issues related to development of Grml on this mailinglist. Anyone is allowed to subscribe to the mailinglist. Sending mails to the

Re: [Grml] Boot managers and grml-debootstrap

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20100210 22:40]: If I were to use grml-debootstrap to install a debian system what are my options for boot managers? I normally prefer to install the boot manager in the partition but I believe grub2 doesn't support this. So is there a way for me to

Re: [Grml] jmicron network card driver installation fails

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Prokop
* Grischa gris...@stuff24.de [20100113 01:15]: I'm running grml with a 2.6.26 kernel on an asus eee box b202 which has unfortunately a JMicron network card. I want to install the driver (ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmc2xx/) manually because the driver is not included. As mentioned in the

Re: [Grml] GRML64-bit Accessibility and Cheatcode questions

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Prokop
* Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com [20100113 18:50]: I was curious if GRML64 is accessible to users with blind disabilities by default, as in the 32-bit world of GRML. It's supposed to be, yes. Secondly, I had a question: While the newer splash menu works niecly for a person with sight,

Re: [Grml] Cannot add grub to new partition for grml.

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* singl...@netzero.com singl...@netzero.com [20091119 22:32]: I tried to install grml2hd and all worked fine until I tried to add grub to the /dev/sda16 partition and the grub install failed. Error was that I had to force the grub because it was a BAD idea to load grub that was not at the

Re: [Grml] Upgrade auf grml 2009.10

2009-11-04 Thread Michael Prokop
[Please notice that the proper language for the grml mailinglist is english, thanks.] * Ch. Hanisch ch-hani...@t-online.de [20091104 19:06]: nach einem D-U mit folgenden Eintragungen in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.grml.org/ grml-stable main deb

Re: [Grml] grml-rebuildfstab behavior changed

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20091030 17:53]: My current grml-rebuildfstab build entries in fstab using labels, like this: LABEL=TOOLS /mnt/TOOLS ... but I noticed that grml-rebuildfstab from grml64-medium_2009.10-rc1 behaves different. It buils fstab entries like, /dev/sda1

[Grml] Grml 2009.10 released

2009-10-30 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi grml fans, on behalf of the grml team, I'm proud to be able to announce a new stable release: Grml 2009.10 with codename Hello-Wien, available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32bit and 64bit version has been released. The official release announcements

Re: [Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available - UMTS

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ralf Moll ralf-i...@family-moll.de [20091026 22:00]: you may add fonic stuff to wvdial.conf.umts [Dialer fonic] Baud = 921600 Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1, IP,pinternet.interkomm.de,,0,0 Username=fonic Password=fonic Dial Command = ATDT Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Carrier Check = No Phone = *99#

Re: [Grml] OT: does anybody have experience with grub 2

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Aleksandar Lazic al-g...@none.at [20091027 22:25]: Sometimes we have ~4T storage and I want to boot from this GPT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table The new grub should be able to handle this but I haven't seen a distribution which use it ;-( Grub2 is deployed for example

Re: [Grml] grml2usb from Grml 2009.10

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20091025 20:03]: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:59:18 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: I guess that the new dd-able ISO feature does not apply to me as well since it requires FAT partitions as well, I believe. I guess the only option left for me is to install grub

Re: [Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Maurice McCarthy mansel...@googlemail.com [20091027 16:36]: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:04:42PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.10 codename Hello-Wien is available! I have a new amd64 from DNUK with Ubuntu Jaunty pre

Re: [Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Schierl schie...@gmx.de [20091027 21:51]: Maurice McCarthy schrieb: By the way the all-in-one addon was no help as it is only geared to the old grub and grub2 has no menu.lst file, as you know. Erm... The all-in-one disk includes both Grub1 and Grub2 - you can load Grub2 (0.96)

Re: [Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available - ewfaquire

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ralf Moll ralf-i...@family-moll.de [20091026 11:48]: I'm on the road, so I could not test the netboot-stuff, but I noticed the lack of ewfaquire. Ah, ewfacquire moved from libewf* to ewf-tools, right. Thanks for mentioning, fixed that. regards, -mika- signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available - ewfaquire

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ralf Moll ralf-i...@family-moll.de [20091026 17:49]: Ah, ewfacquire moved from libewf* to ewf-tools, right. Thanks for mentioning, fixed that. guymager is also missing. Thought that it wouldn't be possible with regards to its dependencies but luckily this wasn't an issue. So added,

Re: [Grml] GRML's udev and Debian's udev

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20091024 12:41]: I have been intending to ask this for sometime but never quite got round to it. On my GRML HD installation when I have been upgrading packages I keep getting a conflict involving udev. It seems to be that libgudev (probably is

Re: [Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available - Netboot-Package

2009-10-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ralf Moll ralf-i...@family-moll.de [20091024 21:29]: thanks for the hard work. I'm downloading right now. I also wanted to test the PXE Part, but on http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver#grml_netboot_packages The Netboot-Files are missing, so I tried manually

[Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available

2009-10-23 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi! We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.10 codename Hello-Wien is available! Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the cool new features: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2009.10/ As usual we have different flavours

Re: [Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.10 available

2009-10-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20091023 19:21]: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:04:42 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.10 codename Hello-Wien is available! Congratulations mika. Thanks grml team for your hard work

Re: [Grml] grml2usb from Grml 2009.10

2009-10-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20091023 22:25]: As always, the first thing I test on Grml 2009.10 is its frugal installation, using grml2usb. I found it still not applicable to me because I need to frugally install grml to a self-boot ext2/3 partition. grml2usb --grub fails because

Re: [Grml] Easiest way to install Debian with grml-debootstrap

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com [20091021 12:00]: My final question: What happened to grml? development seems to be not happening, nothing was released in september, and now October is coming to a close. I would like an explination from the leader of grml as to why this has been

Re: [Grml] Easiest way to install Debian with grml-debootstrap

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Schierl schie...@gmx.de [20091021 23:44]: [...] Then download and compile stable speakup modules. Note that we have to cheat a bit here, as the makefile tries to refer to the currently running kernel's module directory via `uname -r`, but the currently running kernel is 2.6.28-grml

Re: [Grml] grml2hd on daily sid and squee

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Prokop
[Sorry for the long delay in answering your mail.] * Dietmar Segbert didi.segb...@arcor.de [20091006 12:52]: i want to install the daily build of grml sques install onto a partition of my asus eeepc 1005ha-m, so i downloaded the daily build of 4. october and put it onto a usb-stick. I

Re: [Grml] Installing GRML-Medium in VirtualBox on Windows 7rc

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Vivek Sharma vks2...@gmail.com [20091012 09:58]: [win7, virtualbox, grml] Installing in Virtual Box. i am not able to install the grml-medium to my harddisk in virtualbox. when i enter grml2hd, after couple of disclaimers it says, no parition found. Has anyone installed grml to hdd in

Re: [Grml] update-initramfs kernel upgrade

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Dietmar Segbert didi.segb...@arcor.de [20091011 19:10]: i want to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.23 to 2.6.31. So i upgrade my grml on my external usb-harddisk as follows: 1. strat grml 2. edit /etc/apt/sources-list and set the germl and debian to unstable 3. aptitude dist-upgrade 4.

Re: [Grml] Installing GRML-Medium in VirtualBox on Windows 7rc

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Vivek Sharma vks2...@gmail.com [20091012 15:50]: 2009/10/12 Michael Prokop m...@grml.org * Vivek Sharma vks2...@gmail.com [20091012 15:02]: this is out of the proc/partitions/ major minor #blocks name 8 04194304 sda1 7 0

Re: [Grml] Installing GRML-Medium in VirtualBox on Windows 7rc

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Vivek Sharma vks2...@gmail.com [20091012 16:53]: 2009/10/12 Michael Prokop m...@grml.org * Vivek Sharma vks2...@gmail.com [20091012 15:50]: Disk /dev/sda does't contain a valid partition table Well, that's the reason. :) what do i do, :). 1 -- i am using a virtualBox, does it mean

Re: [Grml] My DHCP client isn't started automatically anymore

2009-10-11 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de [20091011 12:17]: On 10.10.2009 at 11:09:36 Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de wrote: since a safe-upgrade on 08.10.09, dhclient3 does not start automatically anymore. [...] You don't have sysv-rc + insserv installed, right? I deactivated the networking

Re: [Grml] grml for powerpc

2009-10-06 Thread Michael Prokop
* Chaitat Piriyastit em...@chaitat.com [20091006 12:49]: Is there an available version for PowerPC yet? I have just bought a used PowerBook G4 and I am willing to use GRML. No, not yet. It's on my wishlist and on the lower end of my todolist (mainly due to lack of time to work on it).

Re: [Grml] 3. upgrade from 2.6.23 to 2.6.28

2009-09-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* Dietmar Segbert didi.segb...@arcor.de [20090928 19:18]: I want to use my installed grml on a asus eepc 1005ha-m. I have search via google and found some hints to use kernels greater 2.6.30. which of the daily builds will use such an kernel All the ISOs from daily.grml.org and can i

Re: [Grml] GRML always writes a core file when shutting down/rebooting

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de [20090826 13:44]: when I shut down/reboot my system, I get a core file written in /. Since this is happening repeatedly, there is a pretty large amount of drive space wasted. Can anyone confirm/reproduce this behavior, and does anybody know what causes

Re: [Grml] Having a way to set default X session manager

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Prokop m...@grml.org [20090803 01:38]: * Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20090803 01:30]: Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should

Re: [Grml] Having a way to set default X session manager

2009-08-02 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20090803 01:30]: Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should be called x session manager). This makes it impossible for

Re: [Grml] Help, hilfe, how can i restore..

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Prokop
[sorry4delay, busy days...] * Dietmar Segbert didi.segb...@arcor.de [20090715 20:34]: i need some help. I have delete a directory of my /home directory with a lot of data. Einfacher ist es für mich in deutsch zu beschreiben, was passiert ist, Sorry. Meine grml-Installation ließ sich

Re: [Grml] Network booting, Terminal Server or PXE

2009-07-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20090724 17:49]: Just out of curiosity, how do you compare Terminal Server and PXE? I knew the term Terminal Server when I knew grml, and only within the grml community. The outside world seems to be interested in PXE instead. So I like to know the reason

Re: [Grml] Persistency on grml

2009-07-11 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20090711 19:09]: Thanks you for your detailed wiki: Persistency on grml http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=persistency I got it working after following your detailed instructions. However, I found that you've mixed the two cases. The wiki should read: To

Re: [Grml] OT: memory info

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Prokop
* Josh Lawrence hardbop...@gmail.com [20090709 21:28]: Marked OT just in case :) I need to get more RAM for my computer at home, but the RAM isn't labeled for type, speed etc. Is there a command in Linux and/or grml that will give me this information? Check out 'dmidecode -t memory'.

Re: [Grml] OT: Downloading the .deb package

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20090704 17:01]: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:15:32 +0200, Darshaka Pathirana wrote: [...] What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list? My /etc/apt/sources.list should be fine, because I can 'aptitude install' just fine, but can't do 'aptitude download': % aptitude

Re: [Grml] Poll closed - Result (was: Request for Comments / Poll: removal of LaTeX on grml)

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Prokop m...@grml.org [20090615 12:09]: especially on grml64 we are running out of space and I'm thinking about removing LaTeX from grml, which would save us 100MB of uncompressed space. [...] I'd like to know *your* opinion on this issue, so please let us know your opinion

Re: [Grml] grml_2009.05.iso and swspeak

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu [20090629 02:10]: Boot the CDROM and wait for things to settle down. type swspeak=espeak and hit Enter. Nothing. I had a sighted person watch and the first thing to hit the screen is a picture of a keyboard and the boot prompt. If I then

Re: [Grml] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-06-26 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joshua Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com [20090626 18:59]: I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. [...] Please stop this kind of mails on the grml user mailinglist. Thanks. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/# Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins

Re: [Grml] Request for Comments / Poll: removal of LaTeX on grml

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Maurice McCarthy m...@mythic-beasts.com [20090616 11:28]: Tried several times to connect to this poll but server must be down, I guess. Yeah, doodle seems to have serious problems with upgrading their systems. Very bad timing for us, I'm sorry. :( I have no problem with removing latex.

Re: [Grml] speakup.synth boot parameter and grml2hd

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Darshaka Pathirana d...@syn-net.org [20090615 12:50]: On 15.06.2009 11:13, Michael Prokop wrote: * Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20090614 18:28]: On this topic, it means that grml 2009.05 CD images will be all using grml2hd 1.2.2, so suffering from this problem. Knowing about

Re: [Grml] speakup.synth boot parameter and grml2hd

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20090614 18:28]: I have just tried installing using grml2hd 1.2.3 and it seems to have worked, add it to stable. Great, thanks - done. On this topic, it means that grml 2009.05 CD images will be all using grml2hd 1.2.2, so suffering from this problem.

[Grml] Request for Comments / Poll: removal of LaTeX on grml

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi grml users, especially on grml64 we are running out of space and I'm thinking about removing LaTeX from grml, which would save us 100MB of uncompressed space. I'm talking about the following Debian packages: | auctex catdvi ctioga dvipng gnuhtml2latex lacheck latex-beamer | latexmk latex-mk

Re: [Grml] vol boot option overridden by any boot option which implies sound

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20090615 19:26]: I noticed that when I use boot options which imply sound as they give speech messages in the boot process (eg. swspeak, brltty, etc) then the vol option for setting volume level doesn't work (IE. volume always ends up being 90%). This

Re: [Grml] Request for Comments / Poll: removal of LaTeX on grml

2009-06-15 Thread Michael Prokop
* Jason White ja...@jasonjgw.net [20090615 13:44]: Michael Prokop m...@grml.org wrote: I'd like to know *your* opinion on this issue, so please let us know your opinion through this poll: http://doodle.com/3dnzvhv43tmhpcpn This opens up a broader issue: are you considering a version

Re: [Grml] Two patches for grml-scripts

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ernesto Domato edo...@gmail.com [20090608 23:53]: Here I send you two patches for /usr/bin/grml-lang and /usr/sbin/grml-quickconfig that add the option for spanish keyboards, I use spanish keyboards usually :-P I don't know if they are really necessary since you can boot with the option

Re: [Grml] speakup.synth boot parameter and grml2hd

2009-06-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20090611 13:38]: I noticed that in grml2hd when it prompts you for which boot parameters should be used for the append line it gives the speakup one as speakup_synth although now grml uses speakup.synth, therefore users can't add speakup.synth to an

Re: [Grml] Creating a bootable DVD using grml and grml64

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ernesto Domato edo...@gmail.com [20090608 23:56]: 2009/6/7 Michael Prokop m...@grml.org: * Michael Prokop m...@grml.org [20090607 03:17]: Thorsten Glaser and I already worked out a generic grml2iso script which doesn't even require a loopback device anymore (but please make sure to use

Re: [Grml] The installed GRML boots very slow

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de [20090522 16:14]: while checking out your list archive, I found that this was brought up some months ago, but I repeat it: I installed the release candidate of GRML 2008-11 on my desktop machine, and since that I had to observe a slow boot process. My hard

Re: [Grml] Why does GRML mix up the stable and teh unstable branche in apt?

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de [20090526 13:48]: a few weeks ago, I installed Gnome on my GRML 2008-11. Since Gnome shipps a lot of updates, I got a lot of stuff from the unstable branche of the repo. This results in screwing up my system, especially Gnome. So I commented out the

Re: [Grml] Strange messages when performing modprobe

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de [20090526 14:29]: when I perform a modprobe, I get the following strange messages: WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/rng-tools, it will be ignored in a future release. [...] What does this mean? It means what it says: the config file

Re: [Grml] Still no start of the CD on my desktop machine

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de [20090601 15:50]: just downloaded and burned the latest GRML CD, and I had to notice that I still cannot start it on my desktop machine like all the others since 2008-11. So has anything changed regarding this bug? According to the output of lspci you

Re: [Grml] I got Espeakup finally to work

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Whapples mwhapp...@aim.com [20090528 12:28]: Good to hear you've got it working. While you didn't ask for it, I can imagine it would be useful, would you like the swspeak script to identify your language and start espeakup with the correct -V option? My idea is that all this

Re: [Grml] GRML does not boot on all machines since version 2008-11

2009-05-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hermann meinelis...@onlinehome.de [20090522 15:53]: since version 2008-11 I cannot boot the live CD anymore on one of my machines - my desktop computer - a PC bought at the German computer store Vobis. They use noname components, but the computer contains an AMD Duron processor of 1 Ghz and

[Grml] Release Candidate 1 of grml 2009.05 available

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi! We have new release candidates: the first release candidate of version 2009.05 codename Lackdose-Allergie is available! Take a look at the release announcement for details about all the nifty new features: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2009.05/ As usual we have different

Re: [Grml] grml-live vs. debian-live (vs. FAI)

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Prokop
* Darshaka Pathirana d...@syn-net.org [20090506 11:40]: The subject says it all: I was trying to find out a short outline why one should use the one or the other. As far as I can unsterstand it after a short evaluation is that both are able to do nearly the same. Both use debootstrap and are

Re: [Grml] Can Grml tell (and repair) what Fedora did?

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Prokop
* Hubert Gabler loipe...@aon.at [20090427 10:54]: I have a mini-notebook Acer One with Linpus Lite installed. Playing around with this nice little toy I successfully installed Ubuntu 9.04 (replacing Linpus) and on USB-sticks Debian Live and grml 2008.11-rc1. Everything worked perfectly.

Re: [Grml] where is ~/.xsession-errors

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Peter vm...@mycircuit.org [20090422 10:19]: I was wondering where the ~/.xsession-errors file is on my grml-medium-2008.11 It there on my debian lenny install, and I could not find any google saying where the logging to .xsession-errors has to be enable. Has it been disabled in grml ?

Re: [Grml] Next stable release

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Prokop
* T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com [20090409 05:35]: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:22:33 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: You may have know it already -- the bug was merged with #518921, which was fixed on 9 Mar 2009, and installed in the Debian archive on 26 Mar 2009. Yeah, thanks. It's just

[Grml] Poll: PATA vs. LIBATA

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, the grml team wants to collect feedback regarding the recent switch from PATA to LIBATA. PATA? LIBATA? * PATA provides the old IDE subsystem (/dev/hdX), considered as legacy code. * LIBATA is the new subsystem (/dev/sdX) with new features, but some old IDE systems might not work with it.

Re: [Grml] [Grml-devel] Poll: PATA vs. LIBATA

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Prokop
* Frank Terbeck f...@grml.org [20090402 13:37]: Michael Prokop m...@grml.org: [...] * PATA provides the old IDE subsystem (/dev/hdX), considered as legacy code. * LIBATA is the new subsystem (/dev/sdX) with new features, but some old IDE systems might not work with it. Okay

Re: [Grml] Regarding the use of Pump over DHCPCD

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Keith Hinton keithint1...@gmail.com [20090324 15:49]: I wanted to ask why grml uses pump and not DHCPCD (latest bleading edge version of course) In my experience when testing grml (compared to Gentoo) or Arch Linux (both of wich use DHCPCD) GRML connected with horribal slowness to my

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