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#1 Re: DIY » Does anyone here use Mintstick for making livUSB's? Need testers. » Today 13:24:15
Odie,
There are some errors in your documentation for refractasnapshot.
refractainstaller and refractcasnapshot packages are in the devuan repository. If you're running devuan, you can just 'apt install refractasnsapshot-gui refractainstaller-gui' and you will get all the the base and gui packages with all their dependencies.
You don't need to use sudo to run the scripts. You can just run them as root. And you don't need to add your user to the sudo group to be able to use sudo when you boot into the live-CD/DVD/USB. That's gets done automatically by live-config.
Refractainstaller does not depend on grub-efi-amd64. Older versions did require some grub package, but not necessarily the efi version. Installing grub-efi-amd64 as you suggest could cause problems for the user on a non-uefi system.
You don't need to edit grub.cfg.template and changing the name or putting your edits in grub.cfg will result in those edits not being used.
If you want to use a different kernel than the latest installed kernel, you can set it in one place, in the config file. If you edit the menu to use the specific kernel version, you will need to edit it every time the kernel gets updated and you are making multiple edits instead of just one.
There's no need to set geany as the "other editor" when geany is already the default editor.
You don't need to make a backup copy of snapshot_exclude.list because there's ALREADY a backup copy.
You don't need to delete the work_dir or the extracted dir after a run. They get deleted unless you edit the config file to keep them.
I'm only up to page 12 of 34. I don't have time to go through it all, and I probably missed something in that first 12 pages. Please study the existing documentation that comes with the packages. Maybe you could put a note at the top of your document saying that it's not official, it's not endorsed by the maintainer of the refracta tools and anyone should use that doc at their own risk.
#2 Re: Other Issues » package server not being updated » 2025-07-16 23:17:16
Thanks for the report. I sent a carrier pigeon to the wizards. It should be fixed now.
#3 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD » 2025-07-15 23:44:53
#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » KDE cannot run usably with multiple monitors on daedalus » 2025-07-14 10:31:55
FWIW, I just plugged in a second monitor on my Asus EEE 32-bit netbook that's 14 or 15 years old. I had to add lxrandr to make it easy - click one checkbox and then hit the Apply button. It works. No KDE here. Openbox with some qt apps. Running excalibur with a 32-bit linux-libre kernel.
#5 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] wrong actualization. » 2025-07-14 10:02:35
You can control what gets included in the snapshot by editing /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list
#6 Re: Devuan » Installing on RISC-V board using debootstrap » 2025-07-14 09:59:01
Maybe something here? https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … vice-tree/
#7 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] wrong actualization. » 2025-07-13 21:00:47
The default behavior of refractainstaller is to format the selected partition(s). You can disable that in the options checklist of the gui installer or in the config file for the cli installer. Installing over an existing installation will probably cause unforseen problems, but it is possible. Whether you have /home on a separate partition or not would have some effect on how you do it. I don't recommend that you try it.
I'm not sure why you don't just remove the troublesome browser and whatever came in with it, but if you really want or need to reinstall...
Back up your personal data on some other storage device, do a fresh reinstall and then copy your data back into place.
And for future reference, including all your user's file in the snapshot is also a bad idea. It will make the iso too big.
#8 Re: Devuan » Can't use MAKE command driver for installation » 2025-07-10 17:36:31
due to unavailability of vmlinux
Who's asking it to look for vmlinux? I cloned the git repo and grepped for vmlinux and vmlinuz and got nothing.
#9 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Best practice/procedure question » 2025-07-08 22:29:37
The exceptions (read first, #1)
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-polic … -hierarchy
Best practices (the rules)
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-ma … s-3.0.html
#10 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Best practice/procedure question » 2025-07-08 19:29:31
You could put the db in /var/lib/<package-name>. That's where other databases go. The stuff in /usr generally doesn't get changed except when installing or removing packages.
Is this the package info app? If so, the db should get updated if you installed or removed anything, shouldn't it?
#11 Re: Other Issues » Can I Run Refractasnapshot on Devuan Daedalus with runit? [SOLVED] » 2025-07-07 21:44:23
You need to install live-config-runit, then refractasnapshot will install without complaint. It works. I've made snapshots with runit.
#12 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How are 'live' disks that can boot on many systems created? » 2025-07-05 23:39:03
A live disk will install the system that's on the live disk. It's not designed for you to select software like the installer isos are. If you want a live CD that has your customizations on it, you need to make your own. You could install and run refractasnapshot in your HDD system and make a live iso that's a copy of that system, then you could use that to install the same thing to other computers.
#13 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-05 15:01:10
If/when you decide to use a git repo, there's git.devuan.org. You can have a personal account there that's separate from the devuan packages. I don't think there's any way to build personal packages on our infrastructure.
#14 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-04 16:19:15
More important than pre-sets - does it save the settings when you close it, or do you have to adjust it every time you start it?
#15 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-03 22:03:24
Looks nice!
Part 3: Pre-defined and user-defined pre-sets for the equalizer? fsmithred ducks
#16 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-02 19:53:34
libasound2-plugin-equal with .asoundrc like the example in the README that comes with that package and alsamixergui can show the equalizer.
There are some other mixers that work with alsa, but I don't know if they can display the equalizer. Try them all and make one that's better.
#17 Re: Devuan » apt using a proxy and https only? » 2025-07-02 19:24:50
To use apt with https, you must select a package mirror that supports https. Not all of them do. Find one on this list and use it in sources.list instead of deb.devuan.org.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt
I don't know how that works with a proxy or if it even matters.
#18 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » LVM -- useful or not? » 2025-06-30 13:31:34
Wasted energy, maybe, but where else can you experience the thrill (terror) of resizing a partition while it's mounted and in use?
#19 Re: Other Issues » How to change Devuan Forum Username? » 2025-06-26 20:13:09
Would that be a red heifer or a white buffalo calf? Not that it matters for this. I think I can change your user name. Send me the name you want using the email you used to register. I'll post back here to let you know if I was successful or not.
fsmithred at gmail dot com
#20 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Installer *.iso problems - again ... » 2025-06-26 18:47:57
Maybe you need to try again. It's working here. This is on a 2.1 desktop-live iso.
root@devuan:~# apt update
Get:1 http://archive.devuan.org/merged ascii InRelease [29.4 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages [7,193 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.devuan.org/merged ascii/main Translation-en [5,652 kB]
Fetched 12.9 MB in 9s (1,369 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
134 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.#21 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Where to view system requirements Devuan » 2025-06-24 18:07:21
Where do you see that a minimum microarchitecture level is required?
Follow is not really the right word - we use most of their packages without changing them. Only packages that require systemd are either excluded or forked to remove that dependency. When we say that devuan is debian without systemd, we mean it literally.
#22 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT » 2025-06-24 17:51:28
The debian/devuan runit will use sysvinit scripts if there's no run script for a service. If/when you install runit-init, be sure to include runit-services which will give you a bunch of run scripts.
#23 Re: Devuan » devuan and debian links » 2025-06-23 17:50:25
Oops! Thanks, I fixed the link.
Yeah, there's a slow and steady effort to reduce users' choices.
#24 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Asking for the install cd that is already mounted when I chose RUNIT » 2025-06-23 17:44:55
Apt know what to do based on what's in sources.list and the installer is messing with that file and with mounting/unmounting cdrom when it thinks it should do that. Someone is working on the fix.
#25 Re: Devuan » devuan and debian links » 2025-06-23 14:38:09
Yes, the number of banned and forked packages increases with each release. In the banned packages list, compare columns 1, 5, A, F and K for a visual representation of this. (Beowulf, Chimaera, Daedalus, Excalibur and Ceres)
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