_ _ __ | | __ _ | '__| _ __ ___ | | / _` || |:::| '_ ` _ \ | | | (_| ||_|:::| | | | | ||_| :\__, |::::::|_| |_| |_|::: :|___/::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::: version 0.5 :::::: :::: codename Tokolytika :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: GRML - Knoppix for sysadmins and users of text tools ==================================================== grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you don't even need a harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1 GiB of software and documentation on the CD. http://grml.org/ grml 0.5 can be downloaded from http://grml.org/download/ Release 0.5 - Codename Tokolytika (20051024) ============================================ Fixed several bugs, including: #16 in "man grml-scripts" the program grml-init is mentioned twice #17 grml-docs: Spelling error of "resources" on the grml startpage #18 grml-0.4: booting with 'testcd' complains about 'files not found' Several improved, updated and extended configuration files. New grml-scripts (some selected ones): * save-config save configuration in bzip2 compressed tar archive * restore-config restore configuration * noeject avoid ejecting of CD-ROM and prompting for it. Use it via 'noeject ' (where is either reboot or halt) * service wrapper script for /etc/init.d/-scripts, use it e.g. via 'service postfix start' * grml2usb create bootable usb-stick (using a grml-iso like grml-small) New bootparameters/cheatcodes (some selected ones): * serial - activate serial console (tty1+ttyS0 and start mgetty) * hd - boot from (local) primary harddisk * bootchart - run performance analysis and visualization of bootprocess, see /var/log/bootchart.tgz and bootchart-view; take a look at http://www.bootchart.org/ for further information * startx[=windowmanager] - start X window system instead of consoles, if no option is given then fluxbox will be taken as default, you can specify any other window manager available on grml as parameter. For example use 'startx=wmii' to start X window system with wmii (through running 'grml-x wmii') * grml2hd - automatic installation running grml2hd, requires additional bootparameters, see bootsplash F9 for more details, usage example: grml2hd partition=/dev/hda1 mbr=/dev/hda filesystem=ext3 user=mika -> this will install grml to present partition /dev/hda1 using ext3 filesystem, adding user mika and installing lilo to MBR of /dev/hda; passwords of user root and user are 'grml' * netconfig=server.tld/config.tbz - download configuration archive and extract it This bootparameter is part of the new config framework: http://grml.org/config/ Special new features: * full automatic installation to harddisk via bootparameter grml2hd possible * framework grml-autoconfig: configure hardware-detection via configuration file /etc/grml/autoconfig or its interface script namend 'grml-autoconfig' - especially useful on harddisk installations * configuration-framework: new bootparameters and scripts (save-config and restore-config), see http://grml.org/config/ and 'man save-config' for more details) * integration of hotplug-light: speeds up booting * got rid of all knoppix packages: this means you get a clean Debian unstable system with some additional packages available through the grml repository on http://grml.org/repos/ All packages which are responsible for the core of the grml system and provided by the grml team are namend 'grml-*'. Kernel: * Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.13.4 including several patches (MPPC/MPPE, Reiser4, Speakup, Squashfs,...) and additional modules: acx100, at76c503a, bcm4400, bcm5700, drbd0.7, eagle-usb, fuse, hostap, ieee80211, ipw2100, ipw2200, ivtv0.4, kqemu, linux-wlan-ng, lufs, madwifi, ndiswrapper, openafs, pcan, pwc, qc-usb, realtime-lsm, rt2400, rt2500, shfs, spca5xx, thinkpad, tidev, vaiostat, zd1211 Some more modules (for example fglrx and nvidia) are not pre-installed but available through the grml-repository. * We decided to deactivate SMP-support because we noticed troubles on some laptops (causing kerneloops, problems with booting and ACPI). * We decided to compile the kernel with gcc4 and with optimation for 586 for improving performance. * We are packaging udev on our own to provide perfect integration with the kernel shipped with grml. We are syncing packages with upstream and the debian version. Works together with hotplug-light and upcoming versions of udev will deprecate hotplug* completely. See http://grml.org/kernel/ for more details regarding the grml-kernel. Updates: * Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20051016 plus important updates (priority >low) until 20051023. * Updated memtest to Memtest86+ V1.55. * Updated windows-binaries (putty-collection/winscp) to latest version. * grml2hd: - full automatic (non-interactive) installation - support for reiser4 (still experimental, problems with lilo) - support for new grml-autoconfig framework - improved error handling -> See http://grml.org/grml2hd/ for more details. Removed 231 packages [please notice that some of them are available under different names/in different packages]: *2.6.11-grml* lib* apt-proxy aspell aspell-bin aspell-de aspell-en bashburn bass beecrypt2 binutils-dev blt busybox-cvs-static clusterssh comerr-dev ctetris ddcxinfo-knoppix debian-goodies devfsd dhcp-client dlocate dosemu dosemu-freedos ettercap foomatic-bin foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters freenx g++-3.3 gksu gpsdrive grep-dctrl grml-kudzu grml-xf86config gtk-engines-qtpixmap hotplug hotplug-utils html-format hwsetup imlib1 ipw2100-nonfree isdn-config jablicator kbdconfig kwtools-sys-raid latex2html ldaptor-utils libapache-mod-php4 loop-aes-utils lufs modconf mouseconfig myspell-de-at myspell-de-de myspell-en-us normalize nxagent nxlibs nxproxy nxviewer ocaml-base pciutils-dev perl-tk pgmonitor php4 php4-common php4-mysql php4-pgsql php4-sqlite postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib prism54 prism54-nonfree python-bsddb3 python-dev python-foomatic python-ldaptor python-psyco python-pyparsing python-pyrex python-tk python-twisted python2.3-dev python2.3-ldaptor python2.3-psyco python2.3-pyrex python2.3-tk python2.3-twisted qt3-dev-tools quagga render-dev rubybook s10sh scanmodem selinux-utils sl-modem-daemon slang1-utf8-dev smbconf-pfeifle spl squashfs-tools sysv-rc timidity trans-de-en translate usbmount util-vserver vserver-debiantools wordtrans-data x-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu xlibmesa-glu-dev xlibs-static-dev xorg-common xprt xprt-common xserver-3dlabs xserver-8514 xserver-agx xserver-i128 xserver-mach32 xserver-mach64 xserver-mach8 xserver-p9000 xserver-s3 xserver-s3v xserver-svga xserver-vga16 xserver-w32 zlib1g-dev zsh-beta-doc zsh30-doc zsh30-static Added 262 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.13-grml*): 3ware-3dm2-old-binary 915resolution acovea acpitool acx100-firmware alsa-oss antlr aptsh asn1c bandwidthd-pgsql binfmt-support binfmtc bootchart bsdiff bsdtar busybox calcurse cdecl cdrecord-prodvd-binary clex codeville connect-proxy cowdancer cpm cpp-4.0 cracklib-runtime crosshurd csync2 ctapi-cyberjack ctris dconf dcraw dctrl-tools ddclient debsigs debtags dhcp3-client di dirvish distcc dnotify docbook-to-man doxygen dput drbd0.7-utils drbdlinks duplicity dupmerge durep dvdisaster electric-fence equivs ettercap-gtk exiv2 fail2ban farpd fastjar fblogo file-rc fish fl-cow flawfinder fnfx-client fnfxd fsh ftpcopy fxload g++-4.0 gcc-4.0 gcc-4.0-base gdk-imlib11 gifshuffle gitweb gjdoc gkermit grabc graphviz grml grml-autoconfig grml-crypt grml-firefox grml-fixes grml-hwinfo grml-kerneladdons grml-laptop grml-saveconfig grml-splash grml-terminalserver-data grml-vpn grml-x grml2hd-utils grml2usb gtkrecover harden-remoteaudit heirloom-sh hotkey-setup hotkeys hotplug-light httperf i8kutils icmp-mtu icmp-quench icmp-reset im-switch imapcopy imwheel inadyn input-utils installation-report ipkungfu ipw2100-firmware ipw2200-firmware ivtv0.4-utils java-common jikes jikes-kaffe jwm kaffe kaffe-common kaffe-pthreads ketchup kexec-tools ksh kwtools-net-firewall kwtools-utils-pim lcdtest ldapscripts leo lft libapache2-mod-php5 libsafe linux-sound-base lltag localepurge loco lsdvd lua50 lua50-doc luasocket lufs-utils lwatch madison-lite mercurial mgetty minised mkcue mksh mozilla-firefox-adblock mozilla-firefox-webdeveloper mozilla-imagezoom msort msort-gui multi-aterm munin mwcollect mysql-client-4.1 nat-traverse ncp normalize-audio nufw olsrd-gui olsrd-plugin openssh-client openssh-server orpheus pads pbzip2 pconf-detect pcopy php5 php5-common php5-mysql php5-pgsql php5-sqlite piuparts pmtools-acpi pnpbios-tools podracer postfix-policyd postgresql-8.0 postgresql-client-8.0 postgresql-common postgresql-contrib-8.0 powertweak powertweak-extra powertweak-gtk privoxy proxsmtp python-clamav python-gnupginterface python2.3-apt python2.3-eyed3 python2.3-zopeinterface qc-usb-utils readline-common readpst rhapsody rt2400-base rt2400-utility rt2500-base rt2500-utility rtorrent sbm scanlogd scavr schroot scmxx sdparm sendemail shish sjog slsh spicctrl splint squashfs srcinst ssh-askpass svn-ssh-wrappers tailor tart tcng tcpxtract thinkpad-base tor toshset toshutils tpb tpctl ttf-dejavu tthsum turkey unace uni2ascii unionfs-utils unison2.9.1 unrar-free vde vifm vkeybd vncommand vncserver vorbisgain wcalc webcpp weechat-common weechat-curses windowlab x11-common x11vnc x2x xautomation xcb xmon xprint xprint-common xtla xtrlock xvkbd xvncviewer yaird ysm zd1211-firmware If you find a problem with the release please check http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.5 and report problems using information on http://grml.org/bugs/ Changes since release 0.4 (20050515) ==================================== german grml-paper ----------------- A german paper "grml - Linux fuer Systemadministratoren und Texttool-User" (170kB, PDF) is available online on http://grml.org/docs/#paper grml-wiki available ------------------- The grml-wiki collects information useful for grml-users. Everyone can contribute of course! http://wiki.grml.org/ Please send your feedback, feature requests and bug reports to the grml-team! http://grml.org/contact/ #grml on irc.freenode.org contact (at) grml.org Many thanks in this release go to Mark Riedesel for his great wallpaper and to all those who have sent feedback since the last release! Contact: Michael 'mika' Prokop regards, -mika- -- ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ ( grml.org -» Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins `._,' http://www.grml.org/