Atril added 124mb. I give up on the 700mb limit.
It still fits on a 1gb usb stick!

Yeah, that would work. It's not needed in the squash. Just have to make sure that update-initramfs runs during the install.

I do remember, newer lightdm was not very good with the language selector at the login screen. That would affect multiple users on the same box who might prefer different languages and was a different issue.

RE iso size.. might there be a way to avoid having two copies of initrd (one in /live and one in the squash, 25 M each as gzip)?

Package list is mostly the same. Dropped atril and all the mate system utils and put in xpdf. Forgot to add noscript in the i386. Probably forgot something else, too.

I thought refracta-lang was specific for lightdm. I switched to lxdm mainly because I was getting better results with other languages.

Speaking of beowulf, I had to make a couple of custom live-config scripts for it. One for lxdm so that it doesn't expect lxde, and one for openssh-server, which hangs on boot while waiting for enough entropy to make the host keys. That one is here - http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … sh-entropy

I made a rebuild. Used  xz compression for the initd's, removed initrd.img_pre-snapshot from the original fs root, removed .pyo and .pyc files  everywhere (they get regenerated). Same (as far as I know) package list, no other changes except to add the old refracta-lang live-config script which still works (sorts locale and keyboard simply)

Rebuilt iso is down to 687MB! The bad news is that won't be enough to get a similar beowulf ISO <700MB

Testing using installation's grub menu to boot the iso on HD..

make_efi makes the files needed to boot the iso on uefi hardware. For that to work, you need to have grub-efi-amd64-bin installed (it already is, unless you removed it.)

# Set to yes to create boot files for uefi.

make_efi="yes"

Is this creating both 'uefi' and 'efi', boot files?
Well, I hope your giggling - at least... I just know its 2 boot methods - no more!
thx..

line 73:

# rsync -av / myfs/ ${rsync_option1} ${rsync_option12} ${rsync_option3} \

might miss line 77

rsync_option2=" --delete-excluded"

I'll stop now.. 

Here's the distrowatch link. I should have included this in the first post. They dressed up my dry announcement a bit. https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10460

Good`one!
I had to type in a review, but tried to blend-in... lol 

Whoever sets the default user-dirs doesn't know how I want to organize my files. (...and they can get off my lawn!)

My door mat sez's "buzz off!".

xfce - I don't reallly like it much...but you did give it a good look...kewl.
I figured out my cd burning issue..
I'll ditch gimp and do a snapshot   that'll get me my refracta9 iso on cd!

asta~

Pan, look in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults and uncomment the dirs you want.

Thanks for that, i havent had much to do with that side of gnu/linux in the past, usually just set and forget but might be worth looking at further to learn a few nix tricks. Do you leave most uncommented due to refracta snapshot when creating the iso for refracta?