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tronisus

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## Live Pen (personalized, but not persistent)

Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:02 am

Hi
Sorry if I sound a bit dumb but I'm not very proficient with Linux.
I've been trying to create a Live pen that's not persistent but which can be personalized to my taste (change keyboard layout to portuguese, install Keepass2, insert passwords for my wireless internet connections, etc).
After much investigation I've managed to do just that using remastersys and Ubuntu 12.04 (becasue remastersys doesn't wordk on the latest versions of Ubuntu).
I was told on a forum that I could do the same with refracta tools and the latest Linuxmint. Is that true?
I've just finished installing Linuxmint 18 Cinnamon on my notebook and I've configured it to my taste. Can I now use refreacta to create a non-persistent Live pen out of it?
When using remastersys / Ubuntu 12 I used the following set of instructions:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mutse-young/remastersys
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install remastersys remastersys-gtk
sudo remastersys backup Livepen.iso
What instructions should I use to install refracta and tell it to create the pen?
Thanks for your help
Pedro
fsmithred

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## Re: Live Pen (personalized, but not persistent)

Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:14 am

Special instructions for mint18:
linux-mint-18-t581.html#p5509
Get the .deb files here for refractasnapshot. If you want to be able to install to hard drive from the pen drive, then you can also get refractainstaller.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/
Get mint set up the way you want, adjust the excludes file and the config file if you need to, run refractasnapshot, transfer the iso to usb using dd or cat, same as you would with any isohybrid image. See /usr/share/doc/refractasnapshot/readme and etc/refractasnapshot.conf.
If you did want persistence, or if you wanted a multi-boot usb, you could also get refracta2usb and use that to prepare the pen drive.
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