Release Notes for Grml 2012.05-rc1 - codename Ponyhof
About
After the downsizing and cleanup release 2011.12 this release brings some additional tools and the grml-small flavour is back again.
New features
- grml-hwinfo: Support numactl to retrieve NUMA information
- Re-add simplifed support for brltty
- Support 9p-virtio filesystem for mounting the DCS-directory (Debs, Configuration and Scripts - see man grml-autoconfig)
Important Changes
- The ssh bootoption sets the specified/generated ssh passwort for user 'grml' and (new) for root
- Using /media as default mount target
- Dropped the grml-feedback tool
- Add a few kB of lines made of # charaters to the end of the main syslinux config file
Bits & bolts
- Linux kernel is based on 3.3.6. No additional modules are shipped.
- Fixed several bugs from the bug tracking system.
Important Reminders
- Booting Grml via PXE? Do not forget to add the live-media-path=... bootoption, otherwise booting will fail with 'No supported filesystem images found at /live'. Usage instructions: live-media-path=/live/$FLAVOUR (where $FLAVOUR corresponds to grml64-full, grml32-full, grml64-small, grml32-small) - for further details visit terminalserver page in the Grml-Wiki.
- Booting Grml from Harddisk? Do not forget to add the live-media-path=... bootoption. Or even better: use grml-rescueboot. Full details at rescueboot in the Grml-Wiki.
Packages
Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are available at the Debian section. Visit dpkg_list for a detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2012.05-rc1.
Updates
Packages are taken from Debian testing, 15th of May 2012. 7 packages have been removed, and these 52 new packages have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):
buffer cifs-utils comgt console-setup-linux consolekit dctrl-tools disktype dos2unix ewf-tools exfat-fuse exfat-utils firmware-myricom firmware-netxen firmware-qlogic flashrom fsarchiver gcc-4.5-base gcc-4.7-base genext2fs hexedit hostapd iftop info ipmitool iptstate ipxe-qemu irssi kmod live-boot-grml-doc lrzsz lzop mc-data memtester mosh numactl open-vm-tools pppoeconf rfkill ser2net slurm smbfs tasksel tasksel-data tcptraceroute usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data vlock wireshark wvdial xmount xorriso xulrunner-10.0
These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):
console-terminus gcc-4.4-base genisoimage ipxe python-central python-pexpect xulrunner-8.0
Known issues
- wallpaper: there's no wallpaper shipped with the ISO
- grml-small: the lang bootoption sets the LC_* environment variable to POSIX and therefore lacks support display of special characters like german umlauts
- grml64: entries Grub2, iPXE and MirOS bsd4grml under "Further boot options -> Addons" do not work
- grml32: entry iPXE under "Further boot options -> Addons" does not work
Download Grml 2012.05-rc1
Grml 2012.05-rc1 can be downloaded from grml.org/download/prerelease/.
Feedback
Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with the release please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and feature requests to the Grml team!
Thanks
Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) Axel Beckert, Charles A. Hewson, ChiCuong HA, Christian Hofstaedtler, Christoph Biedl, Christopher Schramm, Conny Seidel , Csillag Tamas, Florian Apolloner, Frank Prochnow, Heinz Ahrens, Holger Baust, John S. Skogtvedt, Jordan Uggla, Laurent CARON , Marco d'Itri, Markus Ulrich, Martin Koeppe, Matthias Strubel, Michael Hanke, Michael Renner, Michael Schierl, Paul Menzel, Pawel azhag Sadkowski, Thomas Arendsen Hein, Thorsten Glaser, Thorsten Leemhuis, Timo Boettcher, Tom Oehser, Ulrich Dangel and Vincent McIntyre for their contributions.
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