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32 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2012.05-rc1 - codename <a
33 href="/faq/#releasename">Ponyhof</a></h1>
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39 <p>After the downsizing and cleanup release 2011.12 this release brings
40 some additional tools and the grml-small flavour is back again.</p>
46 <li>grml-hwinfo: Support numactl to retrieve NUMA information
47 <li>Re-add simplifed support for brltty
48 <li>Support 9p-virtio filesystem for mounting the DCS-directory (Debs, Configuration and Scripts - see man grml-autoconfig)
52 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
55 <li>The ssh bootoption sets the specified/generated ssh passwort for user 'grml' <i>and</i> (new) for root
56 <li>Using /media as default mount target
57 <li>Dropped the grml-feedback tool
58 <li>Add a few kB of lines made of # charaters to the end of the main syslinux config file
61 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
64 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.3.6</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
65 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
68 <h3>Important Reminders</h3>
72 <li>Booting Grml via PXE? Do not forget to add the live-media-path=...
73 bootoption, otherwise booting will fail with 'No supported filesystem
74 images found at /live'. Usage instructions:
75 live-media-path=/live/$FLAVOUR (where $FLAVOUR corresponds to
76 grml64-full, grml32-full, grml64-small, grml32-small) - for further
78 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver">terminalserver
79 page in the Grml-Wiki</a>.</li>
81 <li>Booting Grml from Harddisk? Do not forget to add the
82 live-media-path=... bootoption. Or even better: use grml-rescueboot.
84 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=rescueboot">rescueboot in the
91 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
92 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
93 <a href="/files/release-2012.05-rc1/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
94 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2012.05-rc1.</p>
98 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 15th of May
99 2012. 7 packages have been removed, and these 52 new packages
100 have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
103 buffer cifs-utils comgt console-setup-linux consolekit
104 dctrl-tools disktype dos2unix ewf-tools exfat-fuse
105 exfat-utils firmware-myricom firmware-netxen
106 firmware-qlogic flashrom fsarchiver gcc-4.5-base
107 gcc-4.7-base genext2fs hexedit hostapd iftop info ipmitool
108 iptstate ipxe-qemu irssi kmod live-boot-grml-doc lrzsz
109 lzop mc-data memtester mosh numactl open-vm-tools
110 pppoeconf rfkill ser2net slurm smbfs tasksel tasksel-data
111 tcptraceroute usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data vlock
112 wireshark wvdial xmount xorriso xulrunner-10.0
115 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
118 console-terminus gcc-4.4-base genisoimage ipxe
119 python-central python-pexpect xulrunner-8.0
122 <h3>Known issues</h3>
126 <li>wallpaper: there's no wallpaper shipped with the ISO</li>
128 <li>grml-small: the lang bootoption sets the LC_* environment variable
129 to POSIX and therefore lacks support display of special characters like
132 <li>grml64: entries Grub2, iPXE and MirOS bsd4grml under "Further boot options -> Addons" do not work</li>
134 <li>grml32: entry iPXE under "Further boot options -> Addons" does not work</li>
138 <h3>Download Grml 2012.05-rc1</h3>
140 <p>Grml 2012.05-rc1 can be downloaded from
141 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
145 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
146 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
147 the release please check <a
148 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
149 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
150 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
152 <a name="thanks"></a>
155 <p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) Axel Beckert,
156 Charles A. Hewson, ChiCuong HA, Christian Hofstaedtler, Christoph Biedl, Christopher
157 Schramm, Conny Seidel , Csillag Tamas, Florian Apolloner, Frank
158 Prochnow, Heinz Ahrens, Holger Baust, John S. Skogtvedt, Jordan Uggla,
159 Laurent CARON , Marco d'Itri, Markus Ulrich, Martin Koeppe, Matthias
160 Strubel, Michael Hanke, Michael Renner, Michael Schierl, Paul Menzel,
161 Pawel azhag Sadkowski, Thomas Arendsen Hein, Thorsten Glaser, Thorsten
162 Leemhuis, Timo Boettcher, Tom Oehser, Ulrich Dangel and Vincent McIntyre
163 for their contributions.</p>
165 <h3>More Information</h3>
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