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ukbrian

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## Re: What refracta does ?

Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:22 am

> meandean wrote:ughhh....I hate change...makes my brain hurt...
> thanks for the info!

Gardening makes this old man's little brain hurt.
I made this post @ the EvolveOS forum

> Back on SolusOS meandean the guy who wrote the original snapshot installer scripts that the GUI's are based on, he posted amended scripts that that dealt with a problem, I think SolusOS used unionfs and the script used aufs.

And Ikey replied

> ukbrian: Unfortunately Evolve OS uses neither. Our ISO uses dmsquash-live via dracut, and we use an ext2 image inside a squashfs located at /LiveOS/ on the live media.
> This is something we'll need to cook up ourselves, but should be considered an important part of the backup/restore implementation. Seriously, the ability to actually restore
> your system is so underrated these days, with the quick fix of a reinstall just .. "fixing" .. everything. Not the case :/

You already said that your script will do what Saline-backup could do, clone partitions and create backup files as well as create ISO's so can it be made to work with Ikey's chosen method this time?
https://evolve-os.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=24&start=20#p239
https://evolve-os.com/about/
jenom

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## Re: What refracta does ?

Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:24 pm

Rebooted with usb loaded with meandean script
All i got is a black screen with message " press enter to continue"
When i did, nothing happened
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My goal is:
1)DL a cdrom/usb bootable linux system iso
2)load it into an USB stick
3)boot up
4)install this linux system into a hard drive
5)get all devices working (video, sound, LAN, wifi, microphone, etc...)
6)create an ISO file which SAVES this working system and this ISO is loadable to an USB memory to use it for re-boot and re-install the "working" system
Maybe I am hoping for too much ?
Thanks!
meandean

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## Re: What refracta does ?

Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:21 pm

> All i got is a black screen with message " press enter to continue"

Well at least the iso was created properly.
What size was the iso it created? Anything too tiny is a bad sign. I would expect an iso about a third of your system size.
If you waited long enough, sometimes it takes a long while, and nothing ever loaded further then I suspect either the kernel didnt get included for the iso or that the step that copies the system failed. Checking the iso size should let you know if they system wasn't copied.
What you can do, although it isn't any fun, is to actually do the commands in my script one at a time until you run across the step that doesn't seem to be working. Of course you would have to manually create the exclude list too.

> Maybe I am hoping for too much ?

Nope, not at all. I am pretty sure everyone here uses it to do just that.
meandean

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## Re: What refracta does ?

Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:30 pm

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jenom

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## Re: What refracta does ?

Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:03 pm

system was 2.2 GB
ISO created was 645 MB
I believe, I need to work to correct the vmlinuz + initrd.img errors to make it work
meandean

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## Re: What refracta does ?

Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:37 am

> jenom wrote:system was 2.2 GB
> ISO created was 645 MB

sounds about right

> I believe, I need to work to correct the vmlinuz + initrd.img errors to make it work

that would be my guess too
Now that I think about it, I feel wrong to suggest my script since if my script works so should snapshot.
jenom

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## Re: What refracta does ?

Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:58 pm

I am back to this topic, my SID-Refracta-9-Mate project kept me occupied for a while....but it is fully functional now, as good as it gets.
Used "meandean"'s "makelive script on this freshly created SID-Refracta-9-Mate system.
Did some adjustments in the script to make it run:
1)both isolinux.bin and vesamenu.c32 were in a different location on my system
2)excluded two other partitions on hard drive
3)isohybrid....needed to install syslinux-utils package
After the above modifications, all went well, creted a 1.2 Gb ISO file in about 8 minutes. Used RUFUS in Windoz to transfer image to an USB.
Booted up, welcomed with a friendly "black screen press enter" and sytem was up and running...I am writing this now from this live USB system.
Thanks for all the inputs and help, especially by "meandean" !
sid-refracted::/usr/local/sbin# makelive
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 2 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /home/makelive/work/iso/live/filesystem.squashfs, block size 131072.
[====================================================================================-] 89480/89480 100%
Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072
compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 1168703.84 Kbytes (1141.31 Mbytes)
41.42% of uncompressed filesystem size (2821404.30 Kbytes)
Inode table size 1114622 bytes (1088.50 Kbytes)
28.52% of uncompressed inode table size (3908441 bytes)
Directory table size 1089468 bytes (1063.93 Kbytes)
42.15% of uncompressed directory table size (2584514 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 14612
Number of inodes 110748
Number of files 78080
Number of fragments 5162
Number of symbolic links 21394
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 16
Number of directories 11258
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 27
Number of uids 9
root (0)
user (1000)
daemon (1)
lp (7)
statd (102)
lightdm (107)
man (6)
libuuid (100)
stunnel4 (108)
Number of gids 24
root (0)
user (1000)
daemon (1)
dip (30)
lp (7)
fuse (109)
shadow (42)
ssl-cert (103)
tty (5)
crontab (102)
mail (8)
mlocate (105)
plugdev (46)
utmp (43)
ssh (106)
messagebus (107)
utempter (110)
staff (50)
lpadmin (114)
libuuid (101)
lightdm (112)
nogroup (65534)
stunnel4 (115)
adm (4)
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Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1181
Total directory bytes: 4702
Path table size(bytes): 38
Max brk space used 1a000
594219 extents written (1160 MB)
isohybrid: Warning: more than 1024 cylinders: 1161
isohybrid: Not all BIOSes will be able to boot this device
You can find the live image in the /home/makelive/ folder.
sid-refracted::/usr/local/sbin#
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