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Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

dummy@example.com (hacksenwerk) — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:43:07 +0000

Thank you very much for that!

Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:01:22 +0000

hello again, i386.

I replaced/updated the final debian kernel with linux-libre from FSFLA.
https://get.refracta.org/files/testing/ … 4_1613.iso

No kernel source or headers with this one. I selected the kernel that gets all the updates and changes (short term support) and that's probably fine while excalibur is in testing. If I continue with these builds, I'll probably change to the long term support kernel. Or you could do that yourself with 'apt install linux-libre-lts'.

edit: almost forgot this. it's also in the same dir as the iso along with a gpg sig file. sha256sum

d03a863bfdf91425b6b6d640450b7bd2b67c7c9c94c68898b57f918b7ea63fe7  refracta_13_nox_libre_i386-20250304_1613.iso

Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:17:41 +0000

Oh, duh! I did it. See, I'm so distraught over this I didn't even notice the size of those packages. Thanks.

Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:57:01 +0000

Ok, fsmithred, I didn't read your release notes before. Now I see that this is intended, but the packages increase the size of the image a lot. After removing them, I got a 466,7 MiB sized filesystem.

Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:41:48 +0000

It contains the kernel .deb packages at /home/user/linux-6.10.9-686-pae, including headers and source.

Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:25:03 +0000

Gonna download and keep a copy. Starting to feel bad about the demise of 32 bit.

Don't know why so big. In my experimentings I just upgraded to excalibur from working daedalus install. It works, but it left all the old copies of programs in alongside the new ones, so I had 2 pythons, perls, gcc, libllvm, kernel, libav etc.

Took it all out and now it's smaller than the original by quite a bit, almost 500 mb total.

Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:05:46 +0000

I guess this is the last 32-bit Refracta "release". In quotes because I normally don't publish isos for the new release before Debian freezes their testing suite. But this one has the last 686-pae kernel that was in Trixie/Excalibur until they removed it.

https://get.refracta.org/files/testing/

Release notes:

This is the No-X version of Refracta 13 using the last 686-pae kernel
available in Devuan Excalibur (and since removed from the repository).
Kernel packages including source are in the user's home in case you
feel like compiling or need to reinstall. If you lose them, they can be
found at snapshot.debian.org with a bit of searching.
At this time, Trixie/Excalibur has not even gone into freeze, so as soon
as you get this iso, it'll be outdated.
I'm not sure what the point of this is, since you won't be able to get kernel
security updates, but I figured I should make a final 32-bit Refracta iso.
fsmithred January 7, 2025

P.S. If anyone knows why this iso is twice as big as the daedalus version, I'd be interested to get the explanation.
Thanks