Wednesday, August 12. 2009
forensic mode: readonly blockdevices ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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grml release 2009.05 supports a bootoption 'readonly' which marks all /dev/[hs]*dX devices as readonly. This is important for data rescue and forensic investigations and is automatically activated when booting via 'forensic'. I just implemented readonly support for hotplugging. This means you can safely add new block devices to your system when booted via forensic and the blockdevices will be set to readonly mode automatically. You'll notice something like that in your syslog:
Aug 12 16:21:49 grml kernel: [ 259.426656] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Wednesday, August 12. 2009
Information: broken boot entry on ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Information: broken boot entry on LinuxUser 2009/08 grml-DVDEnglish Version(Eine deutsche Version dieses Textes ist am Ende diese Blogeintrags verfügbar. A german version of this text is available at the bottom of this blogentry.) The Grml 2009.05 LinuxUser-Edition DVD shipped with LinuxUser 2009/08 sadly includes two errors. Neither data loss nor security risks, but broken boot entries instead. The grml team wants to inform users of the LinuxUser grml-DVD about this issue.
The grml team is very sorry about this fsckup. This was the first official remastering of a multi-ISO grml-DVD including a new bootlayout (isolinux with vesamenu) and sadly the configuration error wasn't caught during our tests. Please note that this error happened to the grml team and is NOT the fault of LinuxUser. German / Deutsche VersionDie Grml 2009.05 LinuxUser-DVD die der LinuxUser-Ausgabe 2009/08 beiliegt hat leider zwei Fehler. Kein Datenverlust, keine Security-Probleme, sondern kaputte Bootloader-Einträge. Das Grml-Team möchte mit diesem Blogeintrag Anwender der LinuxUser-grml-DVD über dieses Problem informieren.
Dem Grml-Team tut dieser Fehler sehr leid und es bittet um Entschuldigung bei den Anwendern. Die grml-DVD war das erste offizielle multi-ISO in dieser Größe mit einem neuen Bootlayout (isolinux mit vesamenu). Leider wurde das Konfigurationsproblem in den Testläufen nicht entdeckt. Das Grml-Team möchte explizit darauf hinweisen, dass dieser Fehler NICHT die Schuld von LinuxUser ist. Tuesday, August 4. 2009Event: grml at FrOSCon 2009
Several core developers of the grml team will be available at FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference) on 22nd and 23rd of August 2009 in Sankt Augustin/Germany. We'll have a grml booth featuring grml CDs, usb pens with multiboot ISO setup, grml t-shirts, flyers.... Mika will present some nifty tips and tricks what you can do with grml (including topics like useful bootoptions, Zsh, USB booting and remote access via iSCSI) in his german talk "grml - das Schweizer Taschenmesser der Linux-Notfallsysteme". Please come and visit us!
Tuesday, August 4. 2009Call for help: grmlzshrc.5
Please check out Frank's call for help on the grml mailinglist regarding a reference for grml's zsh configuration. Please let us know if you can help!
Friday, July 24. 2009
Grml 2009.05 LinuxUser-Edition Posted by Michael Prokop
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The current edition (2009/08) of the german LinuxUser magazine provides a four pages article about Grml and ships a special Grml-DVD providing a multiboot setup of grml, grml64 and the grml based juxlala live system including the ISOs of all grml flavours. The DVD provides ISOs based on grml's release 2009.05 including bugfixes which got part of the grml-stable repository since the last release.
You can find the german article about grml titled "Chirurgisches Besteck - Live-Werkzeugkasten für die Shell" online as well as part of the community edition PDF.
Make sure to grab your own copy of the LinuxUser magazine! :)
Wednesday, July 8. 2009
grml 2009.05 in Linux-Magazin 2009/08 Posted by Michael Prokop
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The current edition of the well known german Linux Magazin (2009/08) provides grml 2009.05 on the DELUG-DVD.
Wednesday, June 17. 2009
Request for Comments / Poll: removal ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Request for Comments / Poll: removal of LaTeX on grmlEspecially on grml64 we are running out of space and we are thinking about removing LaTeX from grml, which would save us 100MB of uncompressed space. We're talking about the following Debian packages: auctex catdvi ctioga dvipng gnuhtml2latex lacheck latex-beamer latexmk latex-mk latextug latex-xcolor libkpathsea4 libtioga-ruby libtioga-ruby1.8 pdfjam pgf preview-latex-style tetex-bin tex-common texify texlive texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-extra-utils texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texpower tth vim-latexsuite We'd like to know your opinion on this issue, so please let us know your opinion through the removal of LaTeX on grml poll. Monday, June 1. 2009grml 2009.05 releasedgrml 2009.05 with codename Lackdose-Allergie, 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 relevant news are available at grml.org/changelogs/. Issues regarding the releases can be found in the grml-wiki. Grab the ISOs from the mirrors listed at grml.org/download/. Monday, June 1. 2009
changes between grml 2009.05-rc1 and ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) changes between grml 2009.05-rc1 and grml 2009.05If you're interested in the main changes between rc1 of 2009.05 and the stable release:
Thursday, May 21. 2009
release candidate 1 of grml 2009.05 ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) release candidate 1 of grml 2009.05 availableWe 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. As usual we have different flavours available: the 32bit versions grml, grml-medium and grml-small as well as the 64bit versions grml64, grml64-medium and grml64-small. Please test the ISOs and all the stuff you usually need so we can provide rocking stable releases soon. Download the ISOs from devel directories of the mirrors listed at grml.org/download/. Wednesday, May 20. 2009
grml2usb supports installation of ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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News from grml2usb: I just implemented the feature to be able to install the currently running grml system to a USB device running 'grml2usb /live/image /dev/sdx1'. This means the rewritten grml2usb script provides all the features the old script used to provide and will become part of the upcoming stable release therefor. Of course the new grml2usb script provides several new, additional features - like support for multi-ISOs, specifiying default bootoptions,... (so you can even run 'grml2usb --bootoptions="persistent" /live/image /home/grml/grml_2009.05.iso /dev/sdx1'!). Check out grml.org/grml2usb/ for further details and make sure to grab grml2usb 0.9.6.
Tuesday, May 19. 2009
grml in german magazine c't kompakt ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Great news: the well known german IT news publisher Heise released a Linux magazine special named c't kompakt 01/2009. On pages 120 and 121 you'll find a nice article about grml titled "Grml: Schweizer Messer für Admins" (meaning: "grml: swiss army knife for admins"). The included DVD provides a grml 2008.11 ISO as well.
Monday, May 4. 2009
grml at OSDC 2009, recent developer news Posted by Michael Prokop
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Thursday, April 23. 2009
new devel-release: 2009.04.23 Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) new devel-release: 2009.04.23I just pushed a new devel release to our mirror. Quoting the main changelog:
Thursday, April 23. 2009
grml booth at Grazer Linuxdays 2009 Posted by Michael Prokop
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You can meet several core developers of grml at the grml booth at Grazer Linuxdays 2009 on 25th of april in Graz/Austria. We'll have multi-ISO usb devices with us and present some nifty features of the upcoming grml release. Hope to see you there!
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