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vsido

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## VSIDO Switches to Refracta

Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:13 pm

For 3 years I have used (and tweaked to my likings) remastersys to build and install VSIDO Linux. For the last 2 weeks I have been working with refracta and occasionally bugging fsmithred for some answers and help
At first we switched to just the refracta installer but after final tests and tweaks to the snapshot process I am now using the complete refracta toolset to build VSIDO
I am very grateful to fsmithred and meandean and all contributers for this fantastic tool..
Everything I do for VSIDO is completely transparent... all tools and scripts are kept on the released ISO's so that users can see the process ... I even make an fsarchiver available to anyone who wants the complete build system of either x32 or x64. These are only 600 MiB each if anyone is interested
Here is a scrot of a 3 minute 26 second install ... using refracta installer and that was built using snapshot
mean_dean

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## Re: VSIDO Switches to Refracta

Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:10 am

w00t w00t!

> For 3 years I have used (and tweaked to my likings) remastersys

you tried my script back in 2012 and STILL went with remastersys....fsmithred must of really improved the tools since then
vsido

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## Re: VSIDO Switches to Refracta

Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:56 am

^ Indeed I did Mr Dean... Back then I had my head filled with what seemed like 100 different ideas and installers. I spent a whole year blowing my brain apart before settling on what 'won', the first one that worked!
I did wrap my head all the way around Debian-Live Build and can use it... but I do not like the politics around that from Debian especially in regards to living in SID
It is good to be pulled into what you started and what fsmithred has kept going, I am glad to be here
fsmithred

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## Re: VSIDO Switches to Refracta

Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:44 pm

Cool! I'm glad it works for you. I've tried to add options that make the tools more configurable so they can easily be adapted to different situations. Some of these are suggestions from other people, and I never would have thought to add them. Thanks for ideas and feedback. And thanks to those who have contributed code (especially dzz; I miss him.)
FYI: New and better version of refracta2usb coming soon.
vsido

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## Re: VSIDO Switches to Refracta

Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:57 pm

It is good to be somewhere and use something where people hear and listen to the ideas...
I have not used refracta2usb yet, is it a dd type tool? We all just dd everything to usb
If you do not mind, what became of dzz?
fsmithred

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## Re: VSIDO Switches to Refracta

Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:40 pm

AFAIK, nothing became of dzz, he's just busy doing other things, possibly making music.
If you dd an isohybrid image to a usb stick, you screw up the usb stick royally, so that it becomes resistant to other uses. Simple fix for that is to use dd again, but to zero the beginning of the device. First two megabytes should be sufficient, but sometimes it takes twice, and sometimes it takes more than 2MB. Also, with isohybrid, you can't make additional partitions on the stick. (I've heard claims to the contrary, but I haven't succeeded.)
refracta2usb uses an ordinary fat32 partition, copies the contents of a live iso file to the stick and adds syslinux bootloader. There are also options to copy the intact iso file and use the findiso boot option, which means you have a copy of the original iso file on a partition that can be read by windows, in case your windows-using friends want to burn a live CD. And there are options for setting up persistence, using either a second (or third, or fourth) partition or using a loopback file, and for being able to write to the first partition while you're running it. Up until now, you could use an encrypted loopback file if you wanted, but that's currently broken in the version I'm still working on.
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## Re: VSIDO Switches to Refracta

Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:31 am

> vsido wrote:It is good to be somewhere and use something where people hear and listen to the ideas...

VastOne has hit the nail on the head with this post! It is so nice to finally 'officially' be done with remastersys. I've just been waiting for the day when the next Kernel update broke it (remastersys) for good. Lovely set of tools you folks here at Refracta have built, and the willingness to simply answer a post is so refreshing, I don't even know how to put into words what the actual help feels like!
This is an outstanding and wonderful step forward for VSIDO. Thanks again to fsmithred and mean_dean and all the others here who make Refracta what it is. VSIDO is very appreciative!
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