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### Re: Is this post OK

by fsmithred » Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:01 pm

Nope. Iso to usb is a separate script, and I have no sudden urge to merge them into one.
In gparted, choose the format when you create the partition. You don't need to format it again after that. The label is attached to the file system, not the partition that holds the file system. Write a new filesystem (format it) and you lose the label.
I had it as "CD or DVD" but I changed it. Has anyone actually tried it with a DVD to see if it works?

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### Re: Is this post OK

by nadir » Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:42 am

> fsmithred wrote:...
> I don't think I ever tested it. Got a shortage of working burners here. I could put together some test code pretty easily.

I got burners and i got enough CD's. I can test as much as needed.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: Is this post OK

by ukbrian » Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:21 am

> Nope. Iso to usb is a separate script, and I have no sudden urge to merge them into one

I didn't know whether you could load the refractausb script with parameters something like "refractausb "$snapshot_dir"/"$filename" at the end of the refractasnapshot script.

> In gparted, choose the format when you create the partition. You don't need to format it again after that. The label is attached to the file system, not the partition that holds the file system. Write a new filesystem (format it) and you lose the label.

I'm terrible at describing things, what I was trying to say was would it be possible in this screen to have a button to "skip formatting" or an option to not format the selected partition as it's already been prepared with a label.
I found the line in refractainstaller-yad that does the formatting so I commented it out without any problems

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  `line 865
  mke2fs -t $fs_type_os "$install_part" ; check_exit`

> Has anyone actually tried it with a DVD to see if it works?

I've been using DVD RW's for 2 years with your scripts as most of my ISO's are 1 GB or more. I've got a couple of CD RW's also if you need anything tested.
I have 2 desktop machines and 1 laptop and all of them have a data partition where I store all my data plus 3 custom xfce menus rather than in the user folder and I've started adding this line to fstab to load my data partition in refractainstaller-yad and it works great for me, I don't have to boot into the new install edit fstab and then reboot, it all works straight away.

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  `line 1043 refractainstaller-yad
  echo -e "proc\t\t/proc\tproc\tdefaults\t0\t0
  $install_part\t/\t$fs_type_os\tdefaults,noatime\t0\t1" >> /target/etc/fstab
  echo "LABEL=data /home/user/data ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0" >> /target/etc/fstab
  check_exit`

Thank you for all the time and effort you and others have spent on these wonderful scripts.

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### Re: Is this post OK

by fsmithred » Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:02 pm

Yes, you commented out the right line (mke2fs...) I guess I can work that in. If you use gparted, you would already have a filesystem. If you use cfdisk, you get an unformatted partition.
Might also be possible to add something like "I want to add a line to fstab, and it should look like this..." Well, I'm sure it's possible. The question is whether it adds too much complexity or confusion for the user.
When I put refracta2usb in a deb package, it'll be an easy matter to close the snapshot program and open r2u from the menu. I'll give some thought to the idea of starting one script from the other. Maybe allow a choice of putting the image onto optical media or usb, and then run the appropriate script.

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### Re: Is this post OK

by ukbrian » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:34 pm

> Might also be possible to add something like "I want to add a line to fstab, and it should look like this..." Well, I'm sure it's possible. The question is whether it adds too much complexity or confusion for the user.

Perhaps put it out of sight in refractainstaller.conf, I was just mentioning it in passing but it might be worth the effort.

> When I put refracta2usb in a deb package, it'll be an easy matter to close the snapshot program and open r2u from the menu

Last year I cleaned up windows for 5/6 windows users and asked them if they ever used the start menu and they all gave me a baffled look, none of them had ever used the windows menu only desktop short cuts.

> I'll give some thought to the idea of starting one script from the other. Maybe allow a choice of putting the image onto optical media or usb, and then run the appropriate script.

That was my thinking friend.
I think the average user will want to do one thing or the other at least 50% of the time after taking a snapshot so it would be a big help to them, especially novices.
I'm just reaching for the stars and afterwards you can decide what is practical and worth your time and effort, don't mind me but tell me if I annoy please.

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### Re: Is this post OK

by fsmithred » Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:57 pm

> Last year I cleaned up windows for 5/6 windows users and asked them if they ever used the start menu and they all gave me a baffled look, none of them had ever used the windows menu only desktop short cuts.

We might all be better off if those people don't find these tools.
Please do me a favor and keep track of what's on your wishlist. Some of it will get done quickly, as you've seen, and some of it will take a while. Right now, I just want to make sure everything is working properly so I can be done with it for a bit.

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### Re: Is this post OK

by ukbrian » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:05 am

> Please do me a favor and keep track of what's on your wishlist. Some of it will get done quickly, as you've seen, and some of it will take a while.

No problem, I'm very, very happy with snapshot/installer with those few tweaks you have already done. It seems a minor thing adding a line to fstab and leaving the partition label in place but when I boot into my fresh install and everything is just the same as what I snapshoted with all my symlinks working and nothing to do it puts a very big smile on my face, it's a wonderful buzz, many thanks to you.

> Right now, I just want to make sure everything is working properly so I can be done with it for a bit.

Everything is sweet with me just carry on with what your focused on friend.
This is just jotted down while I can remember so just ignore this I installed an earlier snapshot so this isn't a problem for me.
I installed a 3.8.4 32 bit kernel that groni the mod on solusos compiled but then I had a problem with the snapshot ISO booting, when I select unionfs on the boot menu the screen gives a quick flicker but doesn't boot up and even if I boot into the original 3.3.6 kernel and make a fresh snapshot the same thing happens.
I then used Dean's knockoff script and it gave these errors in the terminal at the start.

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  `rsync: link_stat "/vmlinuz" failed: No such file or directory (2)
  rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]`

I don't think it's a refracta error, I think groni and Sandman might be missing something when they compile the kernel or it removes something but I'm just guessing, you guys have far more knowledge than I and groni and Sandman would would appreciate any feedback/help if you have the time.
This is the refractasnapshot error log

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  `cp: cannot stat `/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
  cp: cannot stat `/initrd.img': No such file or directory
  tee: standard output: Resource temporarily unavailable
  tee: write error
  /usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 397: 20747 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Copying filesystem..." --progress --pulsate --width 300
  rm: cannot remove `/home/work/myfs/etc/rc*.d/*clamav-freshclam': No such file or directory
  sed: can't read /home/work/myfs/etc/ssh/sshd_config: No such file or directory
  rm: cannot remove `/home/work/iso/pkglist*': No such file or directory
  /usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 480: 23007 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Squashing filesystem..." --progress --pulsate --width 300
  I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
  Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
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  Total translation table size: 2048
  Total rockridge attributes bytes: 2614
  Total directory bytes: 8192
  Path table size(bytes): 76
  Max brk space used 1a000
  597834 extents written (1167 MB)
  (yad:23026): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
  isohybrid: Warning: more than 1024 cylinders: 1168
  isohybrid: Not all BIOSes will be able to boot this device
  /usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 495: 23026 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Creating CD image file..." --progress --pulsate --width 300
  (yad:23182): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
  /usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 511: 23182 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Cleaning..." --progress --pulsate`

I've run Anthony's saline-backup on the 3.8.4 kernel and cloned the partition and also successfully created a backup file that installed OK if that's any help.
Groni and Sandman are German speaking but there's also Spanish and Dutch language sub forums on the Solus forums if you ever need translations to make refractasnapshot international.
I've never used USB's for installing before but shortly I'll give refractausb a try

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### Re: Is this post OK

by meandean » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:23 pm

> rsync: link_stat "/vmlinuz" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]

The debian kernel packages install a symlink named /vmlinuz that point to the real vmlinuz kernel in/boot. same for the initrd too.
My guess is that the symlinks are missing. You can create the symlinks yourself.
If you want to post the out put of
ls -l /
and
ls -l /boot
we can probably get that part figured out

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### Re: Is this post OK

by ukbrian » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:37 pm

Thank you

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  `[email protected]
  ~ $ ls -l /
  total 84
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 2 13:30 bin
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 16 19:27 boot
  drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 3580 Apr 18 14:15 dev
  drwxr-xr-x 131 root root 12288 Apr 18 14:15 etc
  drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 18 11:43 home
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 2 12:37 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.3.6-solusos
  drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Apr 2 13:30 lib
  drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Apr 2 12:37 lost+found
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 18 13:50 media
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 18 13:32 mnt
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 2 14:13 opt
  dr-xr-xr-x 157 root root 0 Apr 18 13:50 proc
  drwx------ 16 root root 4096 Apr 18 13:37 root
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Apr 18 13:50 run
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 2 13:30 sbin
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 2010 selinux
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 3 2011 srv
  dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Apr 18 13:50 sys
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 11 11:52 Target
  drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 320 Apr 18 14:15 tmp
  drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 3 2011 usr
  drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 3 2011 var`

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  `[email protected]
  ~ $ ls -l /boot
  total 45080
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129708 Aug 12 2012 config-3.3.6-solusos
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151973 Mar 28 17:03 config-3.8.4-32bitsolusos-1.3-eveline
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 18 12:50 grub
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 2 12:37 initrd.img -> initrd.img-3.0.0-ck1-solusos
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17324965 Apr 16 19:27 initrd.img-3.3.6-solusos
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19735289 Apr 16 17:27 initrd.img-3.8.4-32bitsolusos-1.3-eveline
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1414602 Aug 12 2012 System.map-3.3.6-solusos
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1746383 Mar 28 17:23 System.map-3.8.4-32bitsolusos-1.3-eveline
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1999616 Aug 12 2012 vmlinuz-3.3.6-solusos
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3635904 Mar 28 17:23 vmlinuz-3.8.4-32bitsolusos-1.3-eveline`

I was about to make a video of refractasnapshot and PM it to groni as he's offered to add German subtitles to the video for Geman users and I think I can do the same for Spanish and Dutch users but groni would be using the later kernel he compiled.
Refracta also works with SolydX so I think I can get a French translation there but one thing at a time.
It was with your script I found where to add the fstab entry but it took me 2 days to find where to put it in refractasnapshot.

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### Re: Is this post OK

by fsmithred » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:26 pm

You can make symlinks for /vmlinuz and /initrd.img, but you already have a link for initrd.img to a different initrd. If you're not going to use the older kernel, that's fine. If you want both available, you can give the links different names, and then edit the boot menu so that it uses the new names.
To replace the link(s):

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  `ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.4-32bitsolusos-1.3-eveline /vmlinuz
  ln -s /boot/initrd.img-3.8.4-32bitsolusos-1.3-eveline /initrd.img`

If you want both kernels available, call them /vmlinz1 and /initrd1.img (or anything you want, I think) and then edit the boot menu to add an entry that uses those new names. Let me know if that's not clear.
For refracta2usb, wait a few days, and I'll have a newer version uploaded.

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