grml - the Swiss Army Knife of Linux Rescue Systems
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Presentation introduces grml, a Debian-based Linux live distribution designed as a rescue toolkit for system administrators and command-line users. It covers hardware support (servers and desktops), LVM/RAID handling, PXE boot for datacenter use, and the three image sizes (grml, grml-medium, grml-small) in 32/64-bit. The talk also describes the default console-focused setup (no X, includes GNU Screen, multitail, htop), the preconfigured modular Zsh, and practical use cases such as forensics, data recovery, PXE/USB/remote booting, Debian bootstrapping, and methods to customize the live system.
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