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27 <h1>Release Notes for grml-small 2008.11 - codename <a
28 href="/faq/#releasename">Schluchtenscheisser</a></h1>
32 <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
33 software especially for users of texttools and system administrators.
34 grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
35 as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
36 environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you
37 don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to (use grml2hd
38 for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB
39 of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
41 <p>Whereas grml provides about 2.1 GB of software on a 700 MB ISO,
42 grml-small is a flavor with only ~75 MB ISO-size (~240 MB
43 uncompressed). It does not provide a lot of software but the
44 essential stuff for being a rescue system on a business card CD-ROM
45 or a small USB device. You can use the Debian package management
46 system to install software on the fly (assuming you have network
47 access to a Debian mirror). Take a look at the <a
48 href="/files/">'Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are
49 searching for the package list.</p>
53 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
54 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_0.4">grml-small
55 0.4 @ grml-wiki</a>.</p>
57 <h4>New grml-script:</h4>
61 <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
62 proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
66 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
70 <li>Provide interactive configuration dialog if the configuration
73 <li>Initial support for SW-RAID.
75 <li>Use root=UUID=... by default if possible to avoid possible
76 race conditions with libata vs. pata
78 <li>Use stages based on target information, this gives us the
79 possibility to run multiple instance of grml-debootstrap.
81 <li>Use policy-rc.d inside chroot to avoid startup of daemons.
83 <li>Remove stages after successful execution.
85 <li>Move stages to /var/cache/grml-debootstrap.
87 <li>Install devices using our own device tarball instead of
88 running MAKEDEV (which is just an ungly fork bomb).
90 <li>Run aptitude with --without-recommends option.
92 <li>Copy /etc/debootstrap/[s]bin as well to the chroot if they
95 <li>Allow symlinks when coping existing files to chroot
97 <li>Pre-seed packages using /etc/debootstrap/debconf-selections
99 <li>Support DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for passing extra parameters to the
102 <li>Support KEEP_SRC_LIST to allow user to provide their own apt
103 sources.list from /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list
105 <li>and a lot more updates... check out the <a
106 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
110 <p>Special thanks to Tong Sun for his contributions and to <a
111 href="http://www.sipwise.com/">Sipwise GmbH</a> for sponsoring
112 development of grml-debootstrap.</p>
114 <p>See <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
115 details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
117 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
121 <li>using same kernel version as in grml / grml-medium for easy
122 installation further features/modules on request</li>
124 <li>integration of <a
125 href="http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html">vcs_info</a>
126 within Zsh prompt (<a
127 href="/screeni/gkrellShoot_08-11-03_235459.png">demo
130 <li>use random password if bootoption 'ssh' doesn't have an
131 option (thanks to Michael Holzt and Marc Haber)</li>
133 <li>(re-)implemented <a
134 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD">the
135 isofrom and tohd bootoptions</a></li>
137 <li>moved from syslog-ng to rsyslog</li>
139 <li>added supported for swedish keyboard (thanks to Martin Karresand)</li>
145 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.26.8 including <a
146 href="/kernel/">several patches</a>. Notice: some more modules
147 aren't pre-installed but available through the <a
148 href="http://deb.grml.org/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
150 <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
151 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
153 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
155 <p>Using a new <strong>version schema</strong>: as we want to
156 improve tracking of all the different flavours and releases of
157 grml we decided to use "$flavour $YYYY.MM" for the stable
158 releases. No further confusing 'grml 1.1 vs. grml64 0.2'.</p>
160 <p>Switched from old IDE drivers to <strong>libata</strong>
161 drivers. What might have been known as /dev/hdX on your system
162 will become /dev/sdX nowadays.</p>
164 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
166 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
167 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. See <a
168 href="/files/release-2008.11-small/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
169 for a main package listing and <a
170 href="/files/release-2008.11-small/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more detailed
171 list of packages shipped with grml-small 2008.11.</p>
175 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20th of
176 november 2008 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
178 <p>Removed 15 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.20-grml*) - please
179 notice that some of them are available under
180 different names/in different packages:</p>
185 dhcp-client firmware-ipw3945 gcc-3.3-base gcc-4.1-base gettext-base
186 grml-small ipw3945d localepurge modutils nvi pppoeconf prism54-firmware
187 syslog-ng tinysnmp-tools unzoo
190 <p>Added 41 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml*):</p>
193 apt-utils bc debian-archive-keyring dhcp3-client dhcp3-common ed ethtool
194 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base gnupg gpgv grml-crypt grml-debian-keyring
195 grml-hwinfo grml-policyrcd grml-vpn grml2hd-utils grub-common htop hwinfo
196 ipsec-tools iptables keychain live-initramfs lzma md5deep
197 netcat-traditional nfs-common openssh-blacklist policyrcd-script-zg2
198 portmap realpath resolvconf rsyslog sysfsutils syslinux-common traceroute
199 user-setup vim-common vim-tiny zoo
202 <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
204 <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
205 version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
206 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
207 the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
208 environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
209 subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
212 <h3>Major changes since release grml-small 0.4 (20070518)</h3>
216 <li><a href="/2008/10/01/">Migration from Mercurial to Git</a>.
218 <li>Developer related mailinglists moved from mlmmj to mailmain setup at
219 <a href="http://ml.grml.org/">ml.grml.org</a>.
221 <li>For information regarding further changes visit <a href="/news/">the news section</a>.
225 <h3>Known issues</h3>
228 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2008.11">grml-small_2008.11 @ grml-wiki</a>.
229 Please report problems using information on <a
230 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
232 <h3>Download grml-small 2008.11</h3>
234 <p>grml-small 2008.11 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
235 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
239 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
240 and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
241 check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2008.11">grml-small_2008.11 @
242 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
243 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
244 requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
247 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
248 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
253 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Tong Sun, Martin Karresand,
254 Ralf Schlatterbeck, Thomas Köhler, Peter Palfrader, Michael Holzt,
255 Florian Schuele, Marc Haber, Sipwise GmbH, Charles Hewson, Thomas
256 Lehmann, Christian Vogel, Andreas Roedl and Christian Hofstaedtler
257 for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who
258 <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a> and
259 of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
262 <h3>More Information</h3>
264 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
265 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
267 <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
268 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce"> grml's
269 announcement list</a>.</p>
271 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
273 <p><a href="http://grml.org/contact/">Contact us.</a></p>
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