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[SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD

Does the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from hard disk?

Why?

THE SITUATION:

As I did explain in different parallel threads because of the need to split into unique thematic, I have difficulties since I did actualise my actual Linux.

until that actualisation, it was my best working Linux since long time.

it is based on Refracta linux, 64 bits, Mate with only a few differences

- luakit (*1 instead of firefox (as Mate uses itself webkit it's Atril, what an orgy (!), luakit spares A LOT of disk capacity after purging firefox and works better as far you can remember the luakit short cuts that you find easy under info luakit in the mate terminal! also not experimented people can do that and you will see: with the iso as it is at sourceforge without actualisation, a phantastical stable an complete browser ...
... until you actualise! I hope the actual luakit and dependencies did not change in the time passed since my installation time)

- info (*2 , didiwiki (*3 , magicpoint (commando apt install mgp) (*4 , mhwaveedit (*5 , mplayer (*6 , xsane, ocr (*7 , gimagereader

- my usual contents of /usr/share/hunspell and add's in /usr/share/fonts/truetype for devanagari, tamil, koreanese, japanese and chinese (*8

- mkdir /home/.../0 in my home (to mount later my data partition on it in case of full installation (*9

it's all!

THE RESULT:

a best installation thank the new Refracta linux 64 bits ISO at sourceforge.

The original size for the ISO fits on a old memory card with only 2 GB. The new size of my refractasnapshot as described before not any more: 2.2 GB, sorry (although a big volume did be erased as Firefox is purged) ...

THE CONSEQUENCE:

But this continues to be a really tiny ISO! So smart it would be possible, instead to reinstall, to start it in the RAM as proposed in the grub menu of each srefractasnapshot ISO! Hm...

I did do it and work actually from RAM (if you does the same to test it: you can unplug the memory card: after the start, it is not mounted any more and does do nothing after that! Exactly like in Puppy linux for those having use Puppy linux).

Now Refracta linux is a formula ONE car. You will immediately feel the great difference!

(My actual PC is a DELL transformer working as well as PC with keyboard as as tablet with touch screen keyboard being closed under the screen, i7, 4 core, 4 GB and 1 TB. I have an second one, the same, also i7, 8 core, 8 GB, but only 500 GB for my living room and TV or to compile as all data can not be packed on it!)

The start time were exactly of 3 minutes depending of my hard ware, especially of the speed of my old memory card.

3 minutes, that is long!

It would be a lot better, if it would start directly from the hard disk (depending of the speed of the hard disk)!

Is that possible with a Refractasnapshot ISO and the automatic generated grub menu?

Last edited by 32bits (2025-07-16 19:22:50)

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Re: [SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD

Notes for the precedent message:

(*1 as far as know is luakit COMPLETELY free an non commercial as well as open source, over that one of the actual browsers also in 32bits, extensible.

(*2 info is less known as man but offers where present really more

(*3 didiwiki is the most small text processing system I know, works in pure console mode in each pure console mode browser and in graphic browsers can manage some picture in the text! The result is saved in a pure text document (hidden in the hidden sub dir named .didiwiki) excepted, of course, the pictures... It proceed different sizes of title, sheets, graphic mode normal, italic, underlined and sizes small, normal and big, and can open external links! Look at the installed size! Didiwiki HAS TO BE in each installation... The help is integrated and is a good documentation also for people with difficulties with English! After the installation, invoque in the url bar localhost:8000 (in luakit type "o" and enter localhost:8000)

(*4 magicpoint is a very small «presentation's software» to start and use from the commando line. it is the unique (as far I know) linux application usable with only 3 modules of Cygwin (being easy to simply copy) in Windows since Windows 95! For people having really rarely to present somewhat (for ex. themself) often enough! In baslin (Basic linux, the graphic Linux for only 2 FD floppy's, the ISO file version continues to be present in the web, but not the excellent Linux training based on it for windowers coming to Linux, balin can be started also directly out the old DOS file system) mgp was one oft the only two graphic applications
but did contain a supplementary function: it was able to support hand drawing with the mouse!

(*5 mhwaveedit = the minimal but about perfect sound processing system

(*6 mplayer: for those using videos to learn somewhat, the old mplayer allows to start exactly at the point of video where you will see a detail detail to learn. See the man page! No problem... To repeat tomorrow the same viewing to learn and learn again, see your hidden file /~/.bash_history! You can copy those files for ex. in a (not hidden) file for ex. ~/sportAshtanga-yogaPattahbiJois002 or transmit then to someone or copy on a different Pc as the times are in real time and don't vary from PC to PC...

(*7 ocr: there are different ocr's in Linux. Tesseract-OCR is probably the good one.

(*8 my lines in /etc/ftab:
/dev/sda5    none    swap    sw    0    0
/dev/sda6    /home/.../0    ext4    defaults    0    2
(as I have different PCs, 6, partially very old and transmit by my dead father, I can't replace then through a modern PC, I continue to use the old hard disk organisation in a logical partition, non important witch one. Sda5 is always swap, sda6 is always data bis about 1 TB in ext. 2 so that also Puppy linux Angel Pup with the emulation of a lot of old computer like Commodore, Sinclair etc. can process the files, and since I do that, never some problem with my data! If only for data, ext2 continues to be the best system! Sda7 is the android86 if present, and sda8, sda9 etc. the full installations...)

Last edited by 32bits (2025-07-15 22:35:09)

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Re: [SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD

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32bits

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Re: [SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD

the new freedom in Linux some kind! ah ah ah...

I did have erase my following note concerning Firefox to avoid more important wave. But that exemple of freedom as well open Linux is too much.

also I restaure and add that note:

fsmithred did write to help me yesterday in the parallel thread about the wrong actualisation «I'm not sure why you don't just remove the troublesome browser» (luakit). Well, I am German and don't like Firefox... I have sensibilities making that I can't like it (it is a PSEUDO also HIDDEN non commercial software and it try to kill the wonderful suite Mozilla since years! It's tactic is to add all what is better for suppliers and not for clients, us! More: it did kill the connection of the browser with hunspell. You see on top, that I work intensively with different languages, and have to load special dictionaries for divers software so a set for the office software, a set for firefox, an other set for chromium etc. is really wore. Hunspell and Tesseract-OCR is enough. More, English speakers have now 2 form of dictionaries, a set of UK dictionaries, a set of US dictionaries! Alone with this change did Firefox open an pandora box against people having to work with different languages. Above languages are not the only one that I use: they are the dictionaries and keymaps that I preinstall all - at working time, I load (fast installation) the supplementary ones that I need). The "dictionary problem" is not the only one problem: Firefox did completely reform the management of the settings compared with Mozilla. As I have to work on a window surface as big as possible, I did never abandon the real Mozilla suite because of that: With 3 virtual keys, you can open / close immediately your bars and have all the surface for drawings and maps. In Firefox, you can also do somewhat but not so fast and that disturbs really). So I don't like that intensively commercial software with high disavantages at working time. I try to avoid google stuff where I can. Hum, you have not a lot of other solutions today! You must consider that it is not possible to login in the official KDE forum with Konqueror or Falkon any more!

The troublesome browser Luakit is a really free and open source and extensible, that is Lua, browser developed by a really totaly staff...

what will Debian? What will Devuan, the fork against the closed freedom at Debian?

freedom or not?

freedom à la new president of USA perhaps?

You are administrator of the official from Devuan and communicate so with people?

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Re: [SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD

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Re: [SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD

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32bits

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Re: [SOLVEDDoes the usual refractasnapshot iso also start directly from HD

Thank you very much, dear fsmithred!