Michael Prokop
Michael Prokop
ZFS comes fully supported starting with Ubuntu Xenial 16.04, it's also supported within Proxmox. I'm still uncertain about the license situation, but we should at least try to make usage...
Noticed this during release time (quoting from https://jenkins.grml.org/job/grml64-full_Release/37/console): ``` 11:18:18 Calling task_action 11:18:18 FAI_ACTION: softupdate 11:18:18 Calling task_softupdate 11:18:18 Performing FAI system update. All data may be overwritten! 11:18:18 Calling...
We should research whether the way our ISOs are generated with xorriso, isohybrid etc are still all follow best practices of year 2020. Thomas Schmitt wrote a great summary in...
Forwarding from https://github.com/antonym/netboot.xyz/issues/154#issuecomment-333386112 We should try to make sure that the netboot meny entry in Grml ISOs works in BIOS *and* (U)EFI mode.
isomd5sum provides two binaries: _implantisomd5_ to embed a checksum into an ISO, and _checkisomd5_ which then checks the MD5 checksum which was implanted by implantisomd5. Its usage is as simple...
Quoting from IRC: > The root password for grml-debootstrap is added with $1$ to /etc/shadow (MD5?), and not $6$ (SHA256?) what `passwd` does. Needs investigation whether we can do something...
See e.g. https://github.com/grml/grml-debootstrap/issues/135 for a user falling into the trap. We started to work on this in https://github.com/grml/grml-debootstrap/issues/105 but our current default is still ifupdown. We should make sure networking...
Triggered via the discussion at https://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2019/02/msg00026.html I'm considering changing our language default from en_US.UTF-8 to C.UTF-8. en_DK.UTF-8 might another option, though this could be considered as too opinionated as default?...
Forwarding a bug report I received via IRC hereby: The executed cmdline was: ``` # grml-debootstrap --mirror http://deb.debian.org/debian --hostname $1 \ --nopassword --vmsize ${4}g --chroot-scripts $MY_TEMPDIR/ \ --force -r $DISTRO...
LVM usage within the VMs is a nice use case (thanks for the suggestion, @mrud), we should either default to LVM or at least support it as an option when...