On 05/07/2016 03:33 PM, Jim Murphy wrote:
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:53 PM, parazyd <parazyd@???> wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 May 2016, fsmithred wrote:
>>
>>> If someone want to see what Devuan-Jessie beta looks like without
>>> installing it, I made some live isos. I expect that there will eventually
>>> be an official Devuan-Live, but this is not it. HTH.
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/unofficial_devuan_live/
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> Care to share any scripts or the workflow you have for creating such
>> ISOs?
>
>
> You might want to start a couple of levels up from the files.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/
>
> I'm still looking into this myself, but refracta AFAIKT is a set of tools that
> generate a live cd named, what else, retracta. There is a link to the
> refracta Web
> Site there. I'm sure fsmithred could offer more info, but this may
> give you a start.
>
> Jim


Look at /usr/bin/refractasnapshot. It's a bash script that makes a copy of
your system with rsync, then squashes it, then assembles live-CD iso file
using xorriso, live-boot and live-config (but not live-build.)

Also look at the rsync excludes list
(/usr/lib/refractsnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list) and the config file
(/etc/refractasnapshot.conf)

The default name for the iso is snapshot-<date>_<time>, which you can
change, and the default name of the distribution that appears in the
isolinux boot menu is either the lsb name, GNU/Linux <kernel-version>, or
whatever name you tell it to use.

I've tried to make it configurable enough for people who want to use it on
debian-based distros other than Refracta. Some hacking is required to get
it to work on more recent versions of Ubuntu.

There's also an installer that makes an rsync copy of the live system
(while it's running) onto a hard drive, and then it installs grub. The
third refracta tool is refracta2usb, which puts the live system on a usb
stick and lets you configure persistence, multiboot and more. I didn't put
that last one in the devuan iso.

-fsr