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- <h1>Release Notes for grml-small 2010.04 - codename <a
- href="/faq/#releasename">Grmlmonster</a></h1>
-
- <h3>About</h3>
-
- <p>Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. It
- includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system
- administrators and users of texttools. 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 GB of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
-
- <p>Whereas Grml provides about 2 GB of software on a 700 MB ISO, <a
- href="/faq/#whatissmall">grml-small</a> is a flavor with only ~100 MB
- ISO-size (~275 MB uncompressed). It does not provide a lot of software
- but the essential stuff for being a rescue system on a business card
- CD-ROM or a small USB device. You can use the Debian package management
- system to install software on the fly (assuming you have network access
- to a Debian mirror). Take a look at the '<a
- href="/files/">Debian-Information</a>'-section if you are searching for
- the package list.</p>
-
- <h3>New features</h3>
-
- <h4>Special new features:</h4>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li><strong>dmraid related bootoptions</strong>: nodmraid to not
- enable present dmraid devices,
- dmraid=on to automatically enable any present dmraid devices and
- dmraid=off to actively try to stop any possibly present dmraid
- devices.
-
- <li>New <strong>bootoption bootid</strong> for improving reliability
- of boot process. The specified argument to the bootoption is matched
- against a token on the ISO to make sure that only the correct Grml
- version gets booted.</li>
-
- <li>More <strong>robust network booting</strong>: The last Grml
- release (2009.10) already invented the ethdevice= bootoption which
- allows you to specify a specific NIC for booting. The bootoption
- ethdevice and its surrounding code has been extended so it is possible to specify
- multiple devices at once that should be configured. If you don't have
- any specific configuration all present NICs will be used for
- configuration via DHCP automatically. Visit <a
- href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/337-More-robust-network-booting.html">the
- Grml developer blog for further information</a>
-
- <li>Providing an improved <strong>default configuration for
- top(1)</strong> utility when running as (non-root) user
-
- <li>Improved <strong>serial console</strong> handling through
- /etc/inittab*. Using normal getty instead of mgetty and several baud
- rate settings (115200,57600,38400,19200,9600,4800,2400,1200) to let
- getty figure out which mode should be used.
-
- </ul>
-
- <h4>New features in <a href="/zsh/#grmlzshrc">Grml's Zsh</a></h4>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>new function changed()
-
- <li>zshrc: map backtab to reverse-menu-complete
-
- <li>smarter C-z shortcut
-
- <li>Switch `minimal-shell()' from ksh93 to mksh
-
- <li>Use wrapper functions for changing title/screen
-
- <li>Some minor bugfixes and code enhancements
-
- </ul>
-
- <h4>Major changes in grml-scripts:</h4>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>grml-quickconfig: rewritten from scratch with proper customisation support, now being shipped through
- new Debian package grml-quickconfig
-
- <li>Remove deprecated bt-audio script
-
- <li>grml-setlang: do not set LC_CTYPE any longer
-
- <li>grml-hostname: address xauth issue
-
- <li>zsh-login: do not disable grml-quickconfig for serial console
-
- <li>grml-info: improve support for customisation
-
- </ul>
-
- <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (install Grml ISO(s) on usb device for booting):</h4>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>Mount vfat devices with explicit iocharset option
- <li>Support bootid bootoption
- <li>Also set GRML_DEFAULT when running with --dry-run
- <li>Make sure that --grub-mbr requires --grub
- <li>... some minor bugfixes
-
- </ul>
-
- <p>Visit <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb">the usb webpage
- in the Grml wiki</a> and <a href="/grml2usb/">grml.org/grml2usb</a> for
- more details regarding grml2usb.</p>
-
- <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via Grml):</h4>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>Add support for specifying filesystem + provide /etc/network/interfaces.examples
- <li>Introduce option --nopackages
- <li>Display executed debootstrap cmdline when running it
- <li>Introduce --pre-scripts to be executed before chroot-scripts
- <li>Remove cached debs by default to reduce diskpace during bootstrap
- <li>Support and enable per default --keyring option
- <li>... plus some bugfixes and minor enhancements
-
- </ul>
-
- <p>Visit <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
- details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
-
- <h3>Kernel</h3>
-
- <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.33.2 including <a
- href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and the aufs module.</p>
-
- <p>Visit <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
- regarding Grml's kernel.</p>
-
- <h3>Bugfixes</h3>
-
- <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2009.10">grml-small_2009.10 @
- grml-wiki</a> and in the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug
- tracking system</a>.</p>
-
- <h3>Important Changes</h3>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>Bootoption <strong>home</strong> has been dropped, the persistency
- feature present since 2009.10 replaces this option.</li>
-
- <li>Grml uses <strong>lang=en as default</strong> instead of lang=us
- if no 'lang' bootoption has been specified.</li>
-
- <li>Grml's udev package has been dropped in favour of Debian's plain
- version and adding Grml specified configuration and scripts through
- Debian package <strong>grml-udev-config</strong>.</li>
-
- <li>As the bootoption <strong>bootid</strong> is used as default
- bootoption you need to make sure that you've an according and valid
- bootid=... entry in your kernel cmdline or use the ignore_bootid
- bootoption to skip the boot id check. This is especially relevant for
- grml2usb installations (make sure to use a recent grml2usb version) as
- well as booting with isofrom/findiso bootoptions from harddisks.</li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
-
- <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
- available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit <a
- href="/files/release-2010.04-small/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
- for a main package listing and <a
- href="/files/release-2010.04-small/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more
- detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2010.04.</p>
-
- <h3>Updates</h3>
-
- <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 24st of march
- 2010 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
-
- <p>Removed 2 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.31-grml*) - please
- notice that some of them are available under
- different names/in different packages:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
- *2.6.31-grml* lib*
-
- gcc-4.3-base grml-scanpartitions
-</pre>
-
- <p>Added 10 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.33-grml*):</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
- acpi-support-base gettext-base grml-quickconfig
- grml-quickconfig-standard grml-udev-config
- jfsutils kexec-tools mksh slsh ufsutils
-</pre>
-
- <h3>Major changes since release 2009.10 (20091031)</h3>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>Grml <a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/336-Grml-goes-microblogging.html">goes microblogging</a>.</li>
- <li>New <a href="http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-devel">Grml developer mailinglist</a>.</li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Known issues</h3>
-
- <p>Take a look at <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2010.04">grml-small_2010.04 @ grml-wiki</a>.
- Please report problems using information on <a
- href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
-
- <h3>Download grml-small 2010.04</h3>
-
- <p>grml-small 2010.04 can be downloaded from the mirrors listed on <a
- href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
-
- <h3>Feedback</h3>
-
- <p>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 <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2010.04">grml-small_2010.04 @
- grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
- href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
- feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the grml-team</a>!</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
- <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>Thanks</h3>
-
- <p>Many thanks (alphabetically) in this release go to
- Alexander Menk,
- Andras Korn,
- Axel Beckert,
- Christoph Biedl,
- Christian Hofstaedtler,
- Daniel Borkmann,
- Gregor Perner,
- Jordan Uggla,
- Mark Jonas,
- Moritz Augsburger,
- Pawel Sadkowski,
- Richard Hartmann,
- Sedat Dilek,
- Stefan Weiss,
- Suhanov Maxim,
- Timo Boettcher,
- Thomas Arendsen Hein,
- Tong Sun,
- Xuân Baldauf and
- Zoran Dzelajlija
- for their contributions.</p>
-
- <h3>More Information</h3>
-
- <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
- href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
-
- <p>To sign up for future Grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
- href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's
- announcement list</a>.</p>
-
- <p>If you are interested in development releases grab the daily ISOs
- from <a href="http://daily.grml.org/">daily.grml.org</a>.</p>
-
- <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
-
- <p>Please feel free to <a href="http://grml.org/contact/">contact us.</a></p>
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