* Ian Campbell [Fri Jan 08, 2016 at 10:22:01AM +0000]: > On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 10:11 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:21:00AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > The upside of this is that this will free up space in / which will be > > > needed for a dedicated recovery image. Too bad that we don't have such > > > a thing ourselves and have to recommend third-party products like grml > > grml is packaged and is an apt-get away. It's third-party in just the > > same way that the linux kernel, or exim are. > What is the package called? By coincidence I was looking for it the other > day and all I found was: > $ apt-cache search grml > grml-debootstrap - wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian > grml-rescueboot - Integrates Grml ISO booting into GRUB > grml2usb - install Grml system / ISO to usb device The grml-rescueboot package is the one which is meant here. > The first and last are not relevant and AFAICT the middle one is support > for creating grub entries from files in /boot/grml which appear to get > there by some out of band means (i.e. by hand AFAICT). The > Depends/Recommends/Suggests of that package don't mention any other package > which might provide the actual download. Exactly. Once #754393 has been resolved the download of the ISO straight to /boot/grml should be trivial. I'm even considering providing packages named like grml-rescueboot-grml64-small which just execute the said script with according parameters inside their postinst - so once you install grml-rescueboot-grml64-small the ISO is put automatically in place for you. (I highly appreciate any feedback, further wishes, approaches + ideas regarding that.) regards, -mika-
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