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Lamia is named after the Greek daemoness.

Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children. She was notorious for being a vampiric spirit and loved sucking men's blood.

It is roughly related to the name of my iBook G4, dubbed Lilith.

DjVu Browser Plugin for Mac OS X Leopard doesn't work.

Xee doesn't work.

growlnotify doesn't work all the time.

PDF files generated by dvipdfm render with the wrong font in Preview.

I need a way to make Firefox display PDF files in browser.

Please speak up if you can help with any of this.

Already installed:

Obsolete due to added features

We'll bootstrap from a netbooted Grml installation by installing it to /dev/hda using grml2hd. All steps should be done in screen(1) in case the network connection breaks.

First, we need to partition the disk.

grml2hd

mkswap /dev/hda2.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3.

Adapt /mnt/hda1/etc/fstab.

Mount /dev/hda3(!) and cp -a /mnt/hda1/home/* /mnt/hda3.

Reboot and pray.

Clean up ~.

apt-get update.

Remove all (most) X11 packages (start with x11-common).

Remove various Opt/Xtr stuff. Don't forget to purge.

apt-get upgrade.

Install exim4-base.

Enable IPKFSTART=1 in /etc/default/ipkungfu and configure it. Add ipkungfu in runlevel.conf.

Setup BIND9. Add bind9 in runlevel.conf. Make sure port 53 is open on TCP and UDP(!).

Install ruby1.8-dev. And the rest of apt-cache showsrc ruby1.8. (Suckers.)

Add id_dsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

Install collectd.

Setup rrdtool. rrdtool graph prints 0x0.

Setup gitweb.

The default xterm-color terminfo is not VT220 compatible. (Backspace and Delete are swapped with Terminal.app.)

Since grml was made as a Live CD, we need to create a bootable USB version first. Unfortunately, I only run OS X, so I had to jump through some hooks to do this. But read yourself.

Preliminaries: You need Parallels (5582 works) and a USB stick with 256 MB or more.

Download grml-medium. I used 0.1-rc1.

Plug in the USB stick.

If you wish to keep the data on the stick, now is the time to do an image with help of Disk Utility. All data will be erased soon.

Setup a new Parallels instance to run Debian Linux, don't add a hard disk but boot from the ISO.

Unmount the USB stick in OS X.

Boot grml giving this to the loader: linux26 irqpoll

Activate the USB stick in Parallels when you got into a shell.

(I assume the stick is /dev/sda1, PLEASE DOUBLECHECK with dmesg.)

Make a FAT16 filesystem: mkfs.vfat -F 16 -v /dev/sda1

Mount the stick: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external1

Copy the image: cp -a /live/image/* /mnt/external1

Place the bootloader: mv /mnt/external1/boot/isolinux/* /mnt/external1

umount /mnt/external1

Install the bootloader: syslinux /dev/sda1

Install the mbr: dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda (NOT sda1!)

Make the partition bootable: fdisk /dev/sda, a, 1, w.

Shut down grml: halt

Close Parallels.

Grab the atl2 package at http://deb.grml.org/pool/main/a/atl2/ and put it somewhere on the stick.

Unmount the USB stick in OS X again.

Warning: Your current EEE installation will be erased.

Plug in the USB stick, press ESC while booting the EEE PC and select it.

Get into a shell and run cfdisk /dev/hdc. Partition your disk, I just made one big Linux partition.

Run grml2hd, select /dev/hdc1 as target disk.

Install the bootloader to /dev/hdc.

Format as ext3 (or ext2 if you are paranoid about your SSD. However, I don't buy it).

Configure the boot parameters to include hdc=noprobe hdc=none. The SSD will be very slow else!

Use grub.

Reboot into your fresh grml.

Run grml-x -force fluxbox as root once to auto-configure X11.

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, uncomment the keyboard section and adjust your keyboard layout.

Upgrade the system: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Set the timezone: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Adjust /etc/grml/autoconfig.

The default shipped firmware 650 doesn't support WPA encrypted networks. Find an open one and run in the terminal su -c 'olpc-update 656' (find out the last version number at the wiki). You need to have AC plugged in, else the firmware won't flash on reboot.

yum install bittorrent centerim pidgin emacs git-core htop irssi mc mtr mutt nmap ruby ruby-docs ruby-irb ruby-ri rxvt-unicode screen zsh

yum install xorg-x11-fonts-{base,misc,truetype}, but I couldn't yet figure out how to access the fonts.

More tricks by Bill Clementson: 1, 2, 3, 4.