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31 <h1>Release Notes:<br />grml64 0.2 - codename <a
32 href="/faq/#releasename">Schwammerlklauber</a> (20080224)</h1>
36 <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
37 software especially for users of texttools and system administrators.
38 grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
39 as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
40 environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you
41 don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to (use grml2hd
42 for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB
43 of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
45 <p>Whereas grml is meant for use on 32 bit systems, grml64
46 provides support for 64 bit platforms. It is based on the amd64
47 port of Debian. Take a look at the '<a
48 href="/files/#debian">Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are
49 searching for the package list.</p>
51 <p><strong><a href="/donations/">We do need your help!</a></strong></p>
55 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
56 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.1">grml64_0.1 @
62 <p>Several improved, updated and extended configuration files.</p>
64 <h4>New grml-scripts:</h4>
67 <li><strong>arename.pl</strong>: rename audio files by looking at a file's tagging
70 <li><a href="/grml-live/"><strong>grml-live</strong></a>: build
72 href="http://fai-project.org/">FAI</a> for generating
73 a grml and Debian based Linux Live system (CD/ISO)</li>
75 <li><strong>grml-paste</strong>: command line interface for <a
76 href="http://paste.grml.org/">paste.grml.org</a></li>
78 <li><strong>grml-vnet</strong>: create persistent tun/tap devices with
84 <h4>New bootparameters/cheatcodes:</h4>
88 <li><strong>micvol</strong>: configure mixer/ volume settings of
89 microphone channel; usage: micvol=$number
91 <li><strong>noconsolefont</strong>: skip setting console font via
94 <li><strong>nogrmlacpi</strong>: disable acpi stuff inside
95 grml-autoconfig without having to boot using noacpi (which triggers
98 <li><strong>lvm</strong>: activate present Logical Volumes (LVM)
100 <li><strong>nolvm</strong>: completely disable LVM code/checks; by
101 default (so without using a special bootoption) grml runs 'lvdisplay'
102 and if something can be found the user gets a hint to execute 'Start
107 <h4><a href="/grml2hd/">grml2hd</a> (install grml to harddisk):</h4>
111 <li>use --insecure for passwordbox so user gets feedback when typing
112 password (it's '***' of course and not plaintext).
114 <li>check for dmraid signatures
116 <li>support installation on LVM devices. Usage example:
117 'LVM=/dev/mapper/grml2hd-lvm grml2hd'</li>
121 <p>See <a href="/grml2hd/">grml.org/grml2hd/</a> for more
122 details regarding grml2hd.</p>
124 <h4><a href="/terminalserver/">grml-terminalserver</a> (boot
125 grml via network)</h4>
129 <li>updated initrd generation for use with live-initramfs, providing a
130 reworked initial bootprocess</li>
134 <p>See <a href="/terminalserver/">grml.org/terminalserver/</a>
135 for more details regarding grml-terminalserver.</p>
137 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
141 <li>all grml ISOs are automatically generated using the new <a
142 href="/grml-live/">grml-live framework</a></li>
144 <li>completely reworked initial bootprocess, based on live-initramfs
148 href="http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/">LZMA
151 <li>optimised the system to have as few wakeups as possible (<25
152 wakeups/s in default startup)</li>
154 <li>updated to X.org 7.3</li>
156 <li>updated to libc6 2.7</li>
158 <li>added support for loop-aes</li>
160 <li>the lang=-bootoption supports dvorak keyboard layouts (using
161 parameters dvorak, dvorak-iso or dvorak-utf8)</li>
167 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.23.16 including <a
168 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
172 acx100 at76-usb atl2 aufs drbd8 exmap gspca ipw3945
173 iscsitarget ivtv kqemu loop-aes lzma madwifi ndiswrapper
174 nozomi openafs qc-usb realtime-lsm rt2400 rt2500 squashfs
179 <p>Notice: some more modules (like <a
180 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=ati">fglrx</a> and <a
181 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia">nvidia</a>) are not
182 pre-installed but available through the <a
183 href="http://deb.grml.org/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
185 <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
186 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
188 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
190 <p>To avoid problems with isolinux/syslinux on older hardware (see <a
191 href="http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2008-February/009401.html">
192 syslinux mailinglist</a>) we decided to put several files like kernel
193 and initrd from /boot/isolinux/ into a new directory named
194 /boot/$GRML_FLAVOUR/. This should improve the possibility for
195 supporting multiboot in the future as well.</p>
197 <p>Due to the new initial bootprocess (which is based on
198 live-initramfs) some <strong>bootoptions</strong> might not work as
199 expected or changed its behaviour. The grml team is working on merging
200 outstanding features. If you think you found a bootoption that does not
201 work as expected/documented please <a
202 href="http://grml.org/bugs/">report it</a>.</p>
204 <p>The bootoption <strong>expert</strong> has been dropped. It is
205 deprecated nowadays. The bootoption <strong>splash</strong> has been
206 renamed into <em>textsplash</em> to avoid clashes with graphical
209 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
211 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
212 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. See <a
213 href="/files/release-0.2-grml64/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
214 for a main package listing and <a
215 href="/files/release-0.2-grml64/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more detailed
216 list of packages shipped with grml 1.1.</p>
220 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20071225 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
222 <p>Removed 91 packages [please notice that some of them are available under
223 different names/in different packages]:</p>
228 airsnort artwiz-cursor attacker autofs bandwidthd-pgsql
229 centericq centericq-common check clvm cogito crywrap
230 dbengine ddd debtags defrag discover discover-data
231 dnsdoctor dvgrab emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common
232 emelfm fbgetty findimagedupes flac123 fvwm-crystal gnuplot
233 gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11 gnus gnus-bonus-el grep-dctrl gs
234 gs-common gs-esp gs-gpl gscanbus ia32-libs idn
235 ation-report ion3 ion3-mod-xinerama ion3-scripts
236 irssi-text jail kiss lckdo linux-kernel-headers
237 linux-kernel-headers-grml linux32 lshw-common mobilemesh
238 modutils mozilla-firefox msort ncftp2 nessus netdude
239 netpipes nmapfe openbsd-inetd pdns python-mode
240 python-semanage rhapsody rt2400 rt2500 schedutils
241 sound-recorder sqlrelay sqlrelay-postgresql
242 sqlrelay-sqlite surfraw tdb-dev tinysnmp-tools twin
243 unison2.9.1 user-de uswsusp valgrind vde vifm vncommand
244 w3-el-e21 w3-url-e21 xdebconfigurator xfonts-artwiz
249 <p>Added 229 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.23-grml64*):</p>
253 2vcard 3ware-cli-binary aamath ack-grep acpi-support-base
254 acpitail afflib aggregate amap aosd-cat
255 apt-transport-https ascii asql auctex awesome balance
256 base64 bittwist bochsbios bsd-mailx catdvi centerim-common
257 centerim-utf8 cereal conky cpp-4.2 ctioga ctorrent dcfldd
258 detox dir2ogg dns2tcp doc-base docbook-xml dpkg-ruby
259 duplicity dupmerge dvipng dzen2 edac-utils elfkickers
260 emacs22 emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common epdfview espeak
261 espeak-data etckeeper exifprobe exmap fai-client fai-doc
262 fai-server fatsort firmware-iwlwifi firmware-ralink
263 flashrom fuseiso g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-base
264 gcc-4.2-multilib gcc-multilib gconf2 gconf2-common
265 ghostscript ghostscript-x git-svn gitpkg gksu
266 gnome-keyring gnu-fdisk gnupg-pkcs11-scd gparted
267 grml-debian-keyring grml-live grml-paste gzrt haproxy
268 hdaps-utils hdapsd heirloom-sh hfsprogs hgsvn hplip
269 hplip-data iceweasel-webdeveloper ifupdown-extra
270 inoticoming iodine ipw-firmware irqbalance
271 irssi-plugin-xmpp iscsitarget itop jp2a kanif kpartx
272 latex-beamer latex-xcolor latexmk lcdtest ldnsutils
273 linux-libc-dev linux-wlan-ng live-initramfs logapp
274 loop-aes-testsuite lzma mailplate metastore minised
275 mkelfimage mlocate mr nat-traverse nessusclient netrw
276 netsurf nscd nttcp nvclock obconf olsrd-plugins op
277 open-iscsi open-vm-tools openafs-client openafs-krb5
278 openbios-sparc openbox openhackware packeth pamusb-tools
279 paperkey paris-traceroute pcaputils pdfjam pekwm pgf pip
280 pm-utils pmailq pngtools polipo poppler-utils
281 preview-latex-style prism54-firmware pristine-tar privbind
282 proll pssh python-dbus python-gnupginterface
283 python-gobject python-pycallgraph python-setuptools
284 python-urlgrabber qemu rainbowcrack rcov rinse rofs runit
285 rutilt s3cmd scamper scanmem scrollkeeper shorewall-common
286 shorewall-shell sitar sl sm smap snort-common-libraries
287 splint-data supercat svgalibg1 sysutils taktuk tasksel
288 tasksel-data tetex-base tetex-bin tex-common texlive
289 texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-common
290 texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
291 texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base
292 texlive-latex-recommended texpower tgt thinkfinger-tools
293 timelimit ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra uml-utilities
294 unhide uniutils unsort vgabios vim-tiny wacom-tools
295 wamerican wapiti x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils
296 x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xar xauth
297 xbacklight xdelta3 xdg-utils xinit xrestop
298 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xsteg yatm yeahconsole
303 <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
305 <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
306 version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
307 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
308 the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
309 environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
310 subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
313 <h3>Changes since release 1.0 (20070518)</h3>
317 <li>Alexander Steinboeck joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</li>
319 <li>Daily builds available: <a
320 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/269-Daily-grml-snapshots.html">automatically
321 generated ISOs of grml</a> (using <a href="/grml-live/">the
322 grml-live framework</a>) are available at <a
323 href="http://daily.grml.org/">daily.grml.org</a>.</li>
325 <li>Results of the <a
326 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=survey07">grml user survey
327 are available</a>.</li>
331 <h3>Known issues</h3>
334 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.2">grml64_0.2 @ grml-wiki</a>.
335 Please report problems using information on <a
336 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
338 <h3>Download grml64 0.2</h3>
340 <p>grml64 0.2 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
341 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
345 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
346 and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
347 check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.2">grml64_0.2 @
348 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
349 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
350 requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
353 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
354 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
359 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Henning Sprang, Thomas Lange,
360 Michael Schmitt, Daniel Baumann, Karl Voit, Norbert Tretkowski,
361 Jan-Pieter Jacobs, Wolfgang Karall, Darshaka Pathirana, Andrea Mayr and
362 Wernfried Haas for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of
363 you who <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a>
364 and of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
367 <h3>More Information</h3>
369 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
370 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
372 <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
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