It is possible to make an Iso from live usb.

You must edit your refractasnapshot.conf
Change your working directory to a physical location otherwise unless it's really small it will try to write it to the live system.
So mount a physical hard drive
for example

snapshot_dir="/target/home/snapshot"
work_dir="/target/home/work"
efi_work="${work_dir}/efi-files"

Also make sure to add /target/* to your excludes list or else you will start making a live iso potentially bloated with more isos

yeah on a Q9550 I could see you just leave the old microcode packages. It's not something you update often! But I was deliberately removing it, depends on the hardware honestly. some UEFI systems have quite a few features that may expose the user to more attack vectors than other systems. It all depends I am sure. I'm sure there are realtek micro controllers that play much nicer than others for instance.

https://gitea.devuan.org/devuan/setnet

For wireless I'd use this. It would be pretty hard to break like wicd does with python 2 getting marked as depreciated. much like the old obmenu needing python 3.7. You can still install old dependencies from beowulf but again it probably got removed for a reason in newer releases.

I saw a guy on youtube switch a resister or something around in the wiring 180 and the NIC stopped working but on a reboot worked on windows.
some newer hardware seems to have sometimes weird setups even on the NIC.

yes, pressing certain function keys sometimes works magic

I was installing with sync as a file system condition when the error arrived. Seems to install okay, just slower

Well as far as I see it,
I will keep short as we are getting old
But electric cars + computers. Hard to service batteries. Probably has a lot of capacitors ext.
Even gas and diesel now have modems in them with front and rear facing cameras. With radio antennas of course for oldschool radio. Machines built to wardrive by factories owned by a harlot in a world of supply chain issues.
The Gas and diesel you can pull out fuses like tar out of a tin can. Also the wireless keys act as a RFID ofcourse they can tag nearby devices almost certainly.
I'd say western manufactures are probably the worst but the ecosystem you'd have to talk to a mechanic how he feels about it.

I'd say they are not worth the price they are asking for. Also heated seat subscriptions classic.

as far as energy crisis. Well, lithium will be non-renewable. We should of had liquid thorium reactors being built in the 60's to 70's but they wanted fast breeders for their weapons potential. But we can conserve things like copper, like golinux says. Less things is more room for knowledge and growth.

It's like vegas a fountain in the desert, completely unsustainable, it's not a question of what makes the water flow but who provides it.

golinux is right
idle worship is not much better than idol worship.
Good work on the usrmerge guys
May Devuan live long and prosper!

Ancient. The topic is on 32 bit OS. x201 can run 64 bit OS. Not so ancient,
side note: Yes x201 can be found at very good price surprising with how rare the machine is. I bought one quite a while ago and yes it was at a better price point then slower hardware.
My friend have you tried to libreboot / coreboot your x201?
I have done mine. It's an interesting venture. Regarding using a 32bit OS on such a system would be interesting, from what a read none of the garbage is on the southbridge and is stuck in spi flash. But theoretically you can remove it all, in practice it's a little sticky due to intel ignition.  The nice thing is the APIC register is not moveable and thus it doesn't not have the memory sinkhole/rowhammer problem. Which can be partially to mostly mitigated on GM45 boards anyway with disk encryption especially rowhammer. But for that is sure fire solution is to just get a real server board with ECC support.
regarding x201 I'm little unsure what to make of it I just flashed the thing and I always just run 64 bit OS. I don't have any machines old enough that can only run a 32 bit machine. But it is really inexpensive hardware.
What is state of older kernels on newer PCs? To flip that question I imagine completely compatible.

Regarding OP again, his machine's in question likely are DDR2 machines and don't have to worry about memory stability issues. I saw a chart somewhere where the older ram is actually much more stable due to less density.

I never really needed much ram in devuan. 4gb usually does enough for me. Even when I use stuff like downloading files, image editing, filestorage and web browsing. But Openshot for video editing I might require 8gb for larger projects for sure.

back on topic,
But stuff like the T60 is 32 bit OS only. That's the age the OP is talking about with computers and newer kernels. I am pretty ignorant on the support newer kernels have on older hardware. Especially 32-bit only machines. As I don't have any myself to play with!

sugar. Americans love sugar. Or at least they don't object to companies forcefully packing that processed garbage into their processed food. Or they ignorantly ingest it and can't figure out why they can't lose weight.

If you want a real 'conspiracy' look into all the food processing plants that were going up in flames all at the same time
https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/04/21/ … nters.html
Quite easy to find articles on the matter.

:3
I understand the chlorine evaporates. You can let it sit for a bit and the smell will dissipate.
But my filters take care of all that.

I wish I had time to eat tons of veggies every day. But I just get veggie juice and put some Tabasco spice in it to ensure I get my veggies in me I usually keep a stock of them and buy some bottles everytime at the store. It's almost always on sale too. Then when I get time to cook I am using tons of brassicas. Like Broccoli, kale, and mustard in my stew. Then tons of Lentils and barley

try

dpkg-fsys-usrunmess

So I have a live USB. It's an older system from beowulf 3.0
I am going to update it, but right now I can only install encrypted.

GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y 

was set on original in /etc/default/grub. I tried setting to n and making a new iso from the live image but I think issue is initramfs is not updating when resquashing live image.

cryptsetup will wait for encrypted source device when I installed system unencrypted. I tried modifying grub defaults before installing but same behavior then it drops into initramfs. What would you recommend to solve this? I can work on liveiso. But in order to rebuild initramfs I'd need to have it installed and decrypted. Or get live-update-initramfs working. How to I make a usb read and write? Possibly add multiple OS support I saw is possible on one usb.

What is meant by nocrypt.sh script?