• snapshots can now have multiple kernels

• snapshots now have a loopback.cfg

• which is handy for the new multi-usb script that now supporst just drag and drop the iso file and run the updater script to update grub

• the initramfs for devuan is now generated with dracut (as it is for void)

but there is still one thing i would like to add,
and that is for the multi-usb to have a live system with a persistent overlayfs
i thought dracut could help me out here but if i read the scripts correct, it requires systemd for this trick

so i guess my best bet is to just add my own script into the initramfs that checks if "live-overlay.img" file is present on the iso partition of the usb-stick and then mount the overlay and remount root. can anyone help me with this?

What is /root/dev? Why is it trying to mount there?

Have a look at /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init,  you'll find the following lines moving /run and the virtual filesystems /sys and /proc to the real system:

export rootmnt=/root

(...)

# Move /run to the root
mount -n -o move /run ${rootmnt}/run

# We expect udev's init-bottom script to move /dev to ${rootmnt}/dev
run_scripts /scripts/init-bottom

# Move virtual filesystems over to the real filesystem
mount -n -o move /sys ${rootmnt}/sys
mount -n -o move /proc ${rootmnt}/proc

Udev's /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/udev script will move /dev to ${rootmnt}/dev, as its supposed to:

# move the /dev tmpfs to the rootfs
mount -n -o move /dev ${rootmnt}/dev

i tested this on daedalus and it spat out a bootable iso,
however the iso will fail to boot properly, during /scripts/init-bottom i get

mount: /root/dev: mount point does not exist

i got similar messages on artix
void works tho

my first thought was that there is something wrong with the initramfs.img but it has the same md5 as when i use fmisthreds refractasnapshot
so it is probably something else, not really sure how i can fix this

when you had the check_chown error, did you use the root account and not sudo or doas? then it should be fixed now

text output and screenshot
https://get.refracta.org/files/misc/alphautilz.out
https://get.refracta.org/files/misc/alp … output.png

I took the 2022 MiyoLinux JWM build and updated it to Daedalus then "converted" it to my configs. It's a minimal XFWM setup, very much of the "make it your own" philosophy. Miyo(Dan) himself quite likes it too.

I'm currently working on my own version with a lot fewer packages, and possibly using Calamares as an installer. It's slow going as I have a lot of other projects I'm juggling at the moment, none of which are getting finished!

Moulder.

Just noticed your link to MIYO based projects, gonna have to download that and give it a try, I love me some Miyo, all the stuff I do now is originally based on Miyo from back in 2017.

I have dabbled with yad here and there. I think refractas gui front end uses yad, possibly?

I paid for a commercial version of basic about 20 years ago and am trying to get my moneysworth out of it!

So, if anything, I'd try to do it in that. If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter. It would just be an experiment to see if I could or not?

Moulder.

I could be tempted to try to make a gui for it, but it's a bit out of my league really.

Yad is your friend. The learning curve is very small, once you figure it out it's pretty fun messing with it.

Yad+shellscript and you can make a machine do anything, i'm having a blast with it last few days, mocked up a script+gui last night to adjust xset settings in lieu of using a dedicated screensaver/power manager.

Moulder.