- <h3><a name="store"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to store my settings?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Yes. Grml provides a config framework, check out <a
- href="/config/">grml.org/config/</a>, <a
- href="file:///usr/share/doc/grml-saveconfig/grml-config.html">/usr/share/doc/grml-saveconfig/grml-config.html</a>
- and 'man grml-autoconfig save-config restore-config mkpersistenthome' for more
- details. Starting with release 2009.05 a <a
- href="#persistency">persistency option</a> is
- available.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="persistency"></a><a href="#doc">Is a persistency feature available?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Starting with release 2009.05 a persistency feature is available. Use
- <a
- href="http://grml.org/online-docs/live-snapshot.en.1.html">live-snapshot</a>
- (man live-snapshot) and the bootoption 'persistent' for enabling
- persistency.</p>
-
- <a name="grmlmedium"></a><a name="grmlsmall"></a><a name="grml64"></a>
- <h2></a><a href="#toc">grml-medium / grml-small / grml64?</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="whatismedium"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml-medium?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml-medium is a grml-flavour which tries to close the gap between <a
- href="#whatissmall">grml-small</a> and <a
- href="#whatis">normal/large/full version of grml</a>. grml-medium is an
- ISO with a size of ~200MB providing the most important packages a
- sysadmin usually needs. It provides the same <a href="/kernel/">kernel
- version</a> as normal grml does so you can easily integrate and use some
- further existing external modules as well. The X.org server is shipped
- as well as the window manager fluxbox. Take a look at the <a
- href="/files/">'Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are searching for
- the package list. <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=accessibility">accessibility
- features</a> are <strong>NOT</strong> available/supported on grml-medium
- though.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="whatissmall"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml-small?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Whereas grml provides about 2.3GB of software on a 700 MB ISO,
- grml-small is a flavor with about 100 MB ISO-size (~275 MB
- uncompressed). It does not provide a lot of software (for example no
- X.org and no man pages) 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). It provides the
- same <a href="/kernel/">kernel version</a> as normal grml does so you
- can easily integrate and use some further existing external modules as
- well. Take a look at the <a
- href="/files/">'Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are searching for
- the package list.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="whatisgrml64"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml64?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml64 is a 64bit-version of grml, based on <a
- href="http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/">the amd64 port of
- Debian</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="whatismedium64"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml64-medium?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml64-medium is the 64bit version of <a href="#whatismedium">grml-medium</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="whatissmall64">What is grml64-small?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml64-small is the 64bit version of <a href="#whatissmall">grml-small</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="grml64vsnormal"></a><a href="#toc">What is the difference between 32 bit grml and 64 bit grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The main difference of course is that grml64 is a 64bit-version
- whereas (normal) grml is 32bit-only. grml64 provides a 64bit kernel
- which supports 32bit userspace applications. grml64 also provides
- libc6-i386 and libc6-dev-i386. Due to space reasons and because some
- packages aren't available for amd64 (yet) some few packages are missing on
- grml64 compared to (normal, 32bit) grml.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="smallvsnormal"></a><a href="#toc">What is the
- difference between 'normal' grml and grml-small?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The 700MB-grml brings more than 2500 software packages. grml-small
- includes about 300 software packages, lacks documentation and manpages
- on the ISO. <a href="#terminalserver">grml-terminalserver</a> and <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=accessibility">accessibility
- features</a> are <strong>not</strong> available/supported on
- grml-small.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="grmlvsdsl"></a><a href="#toc">What is the
- difference between grml-small and DSL?</a></h3>
-
- <p>DSL (Damns Small Linux) and grml-small have different target
- audiences. <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/">Damn Small Linux</a>
- (DSL) uses kernel version 2.4 whereas grml-small provides a recent
- version of kernel version 2.6. DSL provides the X window system which
- grml-small does not. grml-small on the other hand provides the most
- important packages for sysadmins and ships the original Debian package
- management which allows you to install packages of the Debian pool with
- no modifications.</p>
-
- <h2><a name="problems"></a><a href="#toc">Problems</a></h2>
-
- <a name="release"></a> <!-- old anchor -->
- <h3><a name="known_issues"></a><a href="#toc">Are there any known issues with this release?</a></h3>
-
- <p>We won't hide anything. Therefore, we do provide all known
- issues/bugs publicly available:</p>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li><a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2011.05">issues regarding
- grml 2011.05</a> in <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">the grml-wiki</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://bts.grml.org/">Grml bug tracking system</a></li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <p>If you find another bug, or consider something a problem not yet
- mentioned <a href="#bugreport">please report it</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="hardware"></a><a href="#toc">I have problems with my hardware!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Take a look at the script grml-hwinfo. This script generates a file
- named info.tar.bz2 which contains important information about your
- hardware. If you think we might help, please run grml-hwinfo and <a
- href="/contact/">send us the file</a> with additional, relevant
- information regarding your problem.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="boot"></a><a href="#toc">grml does not boot on my computer!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please take a look at <a
- href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD">the
- available bootparamters and cheatcodes</a> and '<a href="#booting">Which
- ways exist to boot grml?</a>'. Especially booting with 'acpi=off noapm
- noapic' might help. The bootparameter 'failsafe' provides minimal
- hardware detection using some special bootoptions (please do NOT boot
- with 'grml failsafe' but with 'failsafe' as first word of the boot
- commandline) . If booting hangs during stage "Waiting for /dev to
- be fully populated" please try booting with 'grml noudev'. If you
- don't even see the bootsplash of the grml-ISO your BIOS might be broken
- (pretty common especially on old hardware). Please consider using <a
- href="http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/">btmgr</a> then for booting your
- system. Also check out the <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=problems">problems webpage</a> in
- <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">the grml-wiki</a>. You still have
- problems? Feel free to <a href="/contact/">contact us</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="fbprobs"></a><a href="#toc">I don't see anything when booting grml?!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Likely, this is a problem with the vesafb framebuffer. Try to boot
- with the 'Disable Framebuffer' menuentry (available behind the submenu
- 'Boot options for ...') or manually ad 'vga=normal' to the kernel
- command line (press TAB to edit a menu entry and add 'vga=normal'
- to it then).</p>
-
- <h3><a name="utf8"></a><a href="#toc">I have problems with UTF-8 / Unicode</a></h3>
-
- <p>Check out <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=utf8">UTF8-webpage in the
- grml-wiki</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="cifsshare"></a><a href="#toc">Booting grml-small via PXE using a CIFS share fails</a></h3>
-
- <p>When trying to boot grml-small[64] via PXE (network boot) using a
- CIFS share this will fail because grml-small[64] lacks cifs-utils.
- cifs-utils would consume >14MB of additional disk space - that's why
- it isn't part of the release. But there's a simple workaround: you can
- take the initrd and kernel from the regular grml flavour and use just
- the squashfs from grml-small[64].</p>
-
- <h3><a name="missingfiles"></a><a href="#toc">I noticed some files are missing on grml</a></h3>
-
- <p>Yes, output of 'debsums -a 1>/dev/null' might output some
- failures. The reason is pretty simple: some few modification have been
- done either because they are required for the provided environment or
- because of space limitiations on the ISO. The failures are nothing to
- really care about, but as we don't hide anything we thought it might be
- worth mentioning.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="aptgethangs"></a><a href="#toc">'apt-get install foo' seems to freeze after a while</a></h3>
-
- <p>It seems you are running out of RAM - see 'free' while running 'apt-get…'. UnionFS and the debian packetmanagement require some more RAM for the ramdisk. Some tests showed that at least 164 MB RAM should be present for live-installation, otherwise you might run into a freeze.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="bugreport"></a><a href="#toc">Bugreport</a></h3>
-
- <p>Searching for a bug? Want to report a bug? Take a look at the <a
- href="/bugs/">bugs webpage</a>.</p>