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Author: David Hare
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To: fsmithred
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Unofficial Devuan live images
Found it.. /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro .. here's a patch
I did long back:

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>     elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
>         short="Devuan"
>         long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"


On 8 May 2016 at 20:57, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
>> (Note: I won't mess with /etc/default/grub unless instructed from above to
> do so.)
>
> This needs fixing in Devuan, not refractainstaller. After my edit to
> /etc/default/grub, the actual installation now shows correctly but
> Devuan installs on other partitions still show as "unknown linux
> distribution". There's an old list thread somewhere on that, I haven't
> found it yet. I think it's to do with os-prober.
>
> BTW refractainstaller pauses near the end, while the target partition
> is still mounted, allowing do do any manual tweaks or edits.
>
>
> On 8 May 2016 at 18:12, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
>> On 05/08/2016 07:24 AM, David Hare wrote:
>>>> please test also the install and other functionalities
>>>
>>> OK, I just did (step 1, the installer). Writing from my new install on
>>> real hardware. The installation took 6 minutes on an old core2 with 2G
>>> ram.
>>>
>>> One glitch, simple to fix.. on first boot slim puked, the installer
>>> had failed to sort etc/slim.conf for the new username. I used startx,
>>> edited manually and rebooted, now all is good.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Fixed in refractainstaller 9.1.8 (-base and -gui).
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/testing/
>>
>> (Note: I won't mess with /etc/default/grub unless instructed from above to
>> do so.)
>>
>> -fsr
>>