Stuff that has not yet gone into the official build.
Post a reply
fsmithred

- fsmithred
- Posts: 2101
- Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:13 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Sat May 25, 2013 6:14 pm

> meandean wrote:uh oh....my makelive script works on mint rc15 cinnamon...

That's one of the ubuntu-based versions of mint? Good to know that it works. Snapshot worked on ubuntu-12.04 but not on a later version (I think it was 12.10) because some of the dependencies were missing and not available in the repository. (live-boot, live-config, etc.) It's not that the wrong versions were avialble, but that none were. The only live-* package in the repo was live-build.
Snapshot, installer and r2usb all worked for me in in Crunchbang-11 with some tweaks. Easy to install with gdebi, but they don't show up in the menu, so you have to start from a terminal.
snapshot:
Create /vmlinuz and /initrd.img symlinks OR edit the kernel and initrd listed in the config file and the boot menu file.
refracta2usb:
Change desktop settings so that removable media are not automatically mounted.
Copy the system from iso works. To copy from a running live system, I think you need to edit the script and change '/lib/live/mount/medium' to '/live/image' but I haven't tested that.
meandean

- meandean
- Posts: 392
- Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:16 am

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:30 am

> fsmithred wrote:That's one of the ubuntu-based versions of mint? Good to know that it works.

Yep, raring seems to work fine.
live-boot and live-config-upstart is in universe
Now to leave this ubuntu hell behind
bonez

- bonez
- Posts: 11
- Joined: Sun May 18, 2014 9:10 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Sun May 18, 2014 9:15 pm

Just wanted to say that I've used "refractasnapshot" on Linux Mint 16 and it worked perfectly with no issues. This tool is exactly what I've been looking for and couldn't be simpler.
I love the option of loading the whole DVD to RAM. Takes about 2-3 minutes on my system, but everything is there including my wallpaper, settings, apps, etc. And reading/writing to RAM is much faster than reading/writing to a USB. Not to mention continuous writing destroys a USB rather quickly.
Thank you for this amazing tool!
bonez

- bonez
- Posts: 11
- Joined: Sun May 18, 2014 9:10 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Wed May 21, 2014 6:26 pm

Wanted to update my previous post.
I just installed Mint 17 RC and Refracta Snapshot cannot be installed at this time. It was having an issue with "live-config" not able to be installed for some reason. Therefore, Refracta Snapshot could also not be installed.
I reported this issue in the bug tracker for RC 17, and will try 17 again in the future when this issue has been resolved. Until then I've went back to LM 16.
fsmithred

- fsmithred
- Posts: 2101
- Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:13 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Thu May 22, 2014 12:30 am

I ran into a similar problem trying to use either the installer or snapshot tool with ubuntu. The live-* packages were not available. Make sure the extra repositories are enabled. (universe and whatever the other one is called.)
ewald

- ewald
- Posts: 7
- Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:36 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:58 pm

Have used refracta to clone a Lubuntu 14.04.1 LTS system to a liveCD and installing it on another piece of hardware using refractainstaller.
The obstacle was to get refracta installed on the original system, since there is a major dependency problem: live-config-sysvinit cannot be installed since it depends on sysvinit (>= 2.86) which is a retired package and has been replaced by sysvinit-utils (more details see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1408135
here is the fix I used: download live-config-sysvinit_4.0~a1-1_all.deb
extract using archive manager (from http://live-systems.org/files/4.x/packa ... /4.0~a1-1/)
change dependencies (the extracted directory has a file ~/DEBIAN/control where the dependencies are listed you change the dependencies from sysvinit >=2.86 to sysvinit-utils)
build a new .deb file using dpkg-deb /yourPathToTheExtractedDebFile (details: http://www.sj-vs.net/creating-a-simple- ... structure/)
install live-config-sysvinit.
download live-confic_4.0~a1-1_all.deb from http://live-systems.org/files/4.x/packa ... /4.0~a1-1/ and install
after this refractasnapshot_base, refractasnapshot_gui, refractainstaller_base and refractainstaller_gui can be installed using GDebi package installer.
The System is cloned using refractasnapshot, which creates a live CD .iso file. Write that to a DVD, start the new system from the DVD and run Refracta Installer from the System Tools Menue.
As I said, the obstacle was the dependency problem which took me about 5hrs to figure out. The cloning process itself can be done within an hour.
vsido

- vsido
- Posts: 90
- Joined: Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:38 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:00 am

As posted in another thread, VSIDO is now using the refracta snapshot and installer
jenom

- jenom
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:18 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Sun Mar 15, 2015 6:49 pm

I am try to also get it working on Ubuntu 14.04
Using "ewald"s instructions, I got lost at :
change dependencies (the extracted directory has a file ~/DEBIAN/control where the dependencies are listed you change the dependencies from sysvinit >=2.86 to sysvinit-utils)
build a new .deb file using dpkg-deb /yourPathToTheExtractedDebFile (details: http://www.sj-vs.net/creating-a-simple- ... structure/)
Any chance, you can provide some more details, or perhaps share this a new deb file ?
Thanks !
fsmithred

- fsmithred
- Posts: 2101
- Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:13 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:11 pm

You can try this one. I haven't tested it.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc ... 0~a1-1.deb
Dependency was changed to "sysvinit (>= 2.86) | sysvinit-utils" so it should work with one or the other.
jenom

- jenom
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:18 pm

## Re: Refracta installer and snapshot used on other distros

Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:22 pm

well, 2 hours later I managed to overcome to --change dependencies and --build a new .deb file
here is my experience with theinstall of refracta files on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with GNOME
--snapshotbase 9.1.6 install OK
--snapshot-gui 9.1.2 install OK
--installerbase 9.10 install OK
--installer-gui 9.10 install OK
--refracta2usb 0.9.7 -- needs hwinfo 21.12.1---needs libhd21.0 = install OK
When run snaphot-gui I got this message just before the end:
Can't create isohybrid. File: isohdpfx.bin not found. The resulting image will be a standard iso file.
This file is located in my /usr/lib/syslinux/ and I made it executable too.
I needed to edit /usr/bin/refractasnapshot file, because it was looking for it in /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/ or /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/
Still need to try out if the created ISO file does what it supposed to do !
Post a reply
Jump to:

Powered by phpBB © phpBB Group.

phpBB Mobile / SEO by Artodia.