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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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