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8 :::::: version small 0.2 ::
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13 GRML-small - Live-CD for sysadmins and users of text tools
14 ===========================================================
16 grml-small is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. It includes
17 a collection of GNU/Linux software for system administrators and provides
18 automatic hardware detection. Whereas grml (without the -small) provides more
19 than about 2.1GiB of software on a 700MB-ISO, grml-small is a very small rescue
20 system for systemadministrators. It is not necessary to install anything to a
21 harddisk, you don't even need a harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly
22 decompression grml-small includes about 200 MB of software and still fits on a
23 business card CD-ROM or USB device with 55MB.
27 grml-small 0.2 can be downloaded from http://grml.org/download/
29 Release small 0.2 - Codename Corry (20060122)
30 =============================================
33 Several improved, updated and extended configuration files.
35 New bootparameters/cheatcodes (some selected ones):
37 * serial - activate serial console (tty1+ttyS0 and start mgetty)
38 * netconfig=server.tld/config.tbz - download configuration archive and extract it
39 This bootparameter is part of the new config framework:
40 http://grml.org/config/
41 * forensic boot without any filesystem access to hard disks so
42 forensic investigations can be made
43 * grml2hd - automatic installation running grml2hd, requires additional
44 bootparameters, see bootsplash F9 for more details, usage example:
45 grml2hd partition=/dev/hda1 mbr=/dev/hda filesystem=ext3 user=mika
46 -> this will install grml to present partition /dev/hda1 using
47 ext3 filesystem, adding user mika and installing lilo to MBR of
48 /dev/hda; passwords of user root and user are 'grml'
49 * debnet search through local partitions for file /etc/network/interfaces,
50 copy /etc/network to running system and restart networking then
52 See http://www.grml.org/files/release-0.2-small/grml-cheatcodes.txt
53 for more details about boot options.
57 * udev fully replaces hotplug-light and discover.
58 * booting via usb / firewire works out of the box; install grml-small
59 on your usb-stick via grml2usb, see
60 http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb for more details
61 * configuration-framework: new bootparameters and scripts (save-config
62 and restore-config), see http://grml.org/config/ for more details.
63 * Merged/updated to features from grml(-large) [as far as possible].
64 * added support for installation to hard disk via grml2hd
68 * Kernel is based on vanilla kernel 2.6.15 including several
69 patches (Reiser4, Squashfs,...). Compared with the normal grml system the
70 kernel features have been reduced to fit on the ISO. See
71 http://grml.org/kernel/ for more details.
73 * We decided to compile the kernel with gcc4 and with optimation
74 for 586 to improve performance. SMP has been enabled for
79 * Notice that there are several hacks to reduce the ISO-size, so
80 you e.g. won't find documentation and manpages on the ISO.
82 * grml-small provides support for booting via USB, see
83 http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb for details.
85 * To fit on a 55MB-ISO the software list has been reduced of
86 course, see section "Debian-Information" on http://grml.org/files/ for more
87 details, you can find the dpkg-list there too:
88 http://grml.org/files/release-0.2-small/dpkg_list
92 * Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20060121.
94 Removed 16 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.12-grml*):
97 debfoster discover discover-data hotplug-light hwsetup
98 reiser4progs slang1 sysv-rc
100 Added 26 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.15-grml*):
102 agrep atftp cpio dctrl-tools file-rc gcc-4.0-base gettext-base grml-docs
103 grml-fixes grml-saveconfig grml-tips grml2hd grub hdparm lib* lilo links ncftp
104 ntfsprogs ppp pppoeconf readline-common reiserfsprogs tcpdump tinysnmp-tools
107 If you find a problem with the release please check
108 http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_0.2
109 and report problems using information on http://grml.org/bugs/
111 Changes since release 0.1 (20050705)
112 ====================================
116 You like grml? Help us!
117 http://grml.org/donations/
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122 http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers
124 grml-announce mailinglist
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126 Stay up to date via low-traffic mailinglist grml-announce.
127 http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce
131 Alexander Wirt joined the grml-team.
134 Many thanks in this release go to all those who have sent feedback
135 since the last release!
137 Please send your feedback, feature requests and bug reports to the grml-team!
138 http://grml.org/contact/ #grml on irc.freenode.org contact (at) grml.org
140 Contact: Michael 'mika' Prokop <mika at grml.org>
145 ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/
146 ( grml.org -ยป Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins
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