Making test isos is probably far beyond my paygrade too. I know like nothing about programming languages and very little about stuff developers do.  I tend to learn in order to accomplish what I need without driving myself nuts.

Hyperbola FDE + /Boot is the farthest I have pushed myself ever.

I have done the same on devuan though a long time ago too!

This being said, I prefer the classic debian installer. I am not all that familiar with how to set up the same form of encryption you do with classic installer on the refracta one.

Just sayin

The readme says it's a base install plus a handful of packages (bash debootstrap dpkg-dev rsync sudo zsh) - a little confusing that bash is on that list given it's (1) already in the base install and (2) the relevant script specifically uses zsh?

What is the combined file size of the packages to be downloaded?
How much total disk usage does the process require to build all 6* ISOs?

(*Is it 6 or 8? i.e. Are pool1 and pool2 actually released ISOs? I don't see them on the current download page?)

update: Sorry, I realised this thread is a year old.
At time of writing, there's a preview Live ISO for Excalibur here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=57204#p57204

I still think there's some merit in my idea though, quickie isos for casual testing.

I've about made up my mind, to do a basic Devuan Mate hybrid-iso for current stable, keep it updated, might be nice for folks who prefer Mate and are distro-hopping looking for a good one to install. No hacking or excessive Bleachblitting....mostly. ;-)

What I was thinking, is roll one up like the .iso Devuan has (or did last time I checked last year) that uses Refracta installer instead of going through the installer iso hoopla, quick and easy.

A hybrid-iso you can run live for testing purposes without having to commit to an install, but with the ability to do so if wished. Seems like if it's all for testing purposes that might be better and quicker for people doing the testing?

If I was testing, that's what i'd be willing to do it on, quick live boot, run it through it's paces. As opposed to an hour long ordeal to get it installed which is what I had to do (multiple times mind you) to install my current Devuan, since I wanted MATE and the only hybrid-iso offered was the one with XFCE.

It would be easy to kick out new ones for testing, as I would basically be keeping a rolling current release on the machine, updating when enough new packages rolled in or once a week or whatever. Then squashing a new hybrid and uploading.

Bonus is my new internet has the same fast upload speeds as it does download, so no long time to wait on uploads.

Anyhoo, just a thought, let me know if it would be useful.

If you're really hot to start working on Excalibur Vuu-do there's always mini.iso or debootstrap. Find current anomalous debootstrap info for excalibur on this forum. You have to exclude a few things like cron-daemon-common and specify --with-merged-usr or else use mmdebstrap.

Basically while working on Vuu-do, I rolled up at least one or two per night for testing, implementing new changes I had made plus whatever updates had been pushed through since I last rolled one, using Synaptic. Then uploaded new versions to Sourceforge.

If this process would be okay, and somebody can get me an .iso of Excalibur that's current that contains (or can be added at least) the Refracta programs I mentioned, i'd be happy to clear a partition, install, and roll up new editions and upload wherever you need them. I won't say nightly but I can do better than just once a week, I get a lot of satisfaction watching my machine "squashing", lol.

As soon as someone from the Devuan community steps up to do the weekly builds, they will be available again.

Details here: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalib … aller-iso/

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