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fsmithred

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Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

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as you get this iso, it'll be outdated.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

greenjeans

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Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

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.

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aitor

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Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

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

Last edited by aitor (2025-01-07 21:44:26)

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aitor

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Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

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.

Last edited by aitor (2025-01-07 21:58:56)

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fsmithred

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Re: Refracta "Good-bye i386" iso

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