bazinga-devuan-20251205

godane · 2025-12-06 18:05:43

Hello everyone!

Here is distro i have make using devuan with my custom slax/linux-live scripts. I have been using the scripts for years and modifying them to work better for my needs. I think other people may like it cause you can now use the Ventoy drive with Live OS. Normally if you use Ventoy you can only access the iso file but not the Ventoy partition. Also adding persistent in normal Ubuntu on Ventoy is not as automatic.

I added tons of features like modpath, home, user, hostname, timezone, savedir, etc.
modpath is boot command to added module/bundles like window games. This way you can have multiple OSes and still have games cross over all of them. Default modpath=modpath. (PS I think there is also bug where modpath will mount files twice if just in modpath. May need to put in subfolder in modpath. Like modpath/games/file.sb. I remember this bug from years ago but it doesn't break the os just double mount a game.)

savedir is boot command to save dir. This makes savedir folder on the DATA folder. Default savedir=opt.

home is boot command to the home folder. This helps save the home folder to the drive with out saving all changes in UNION. Default is home=home.

homedat and savedirdat enable save home and savedir as dat files. This is so the OS can work on exFAT. (You can just format the Ventoy partition to ext4 then label it Ventoy so you can the files in the clear.)

perchdat is like homedat but for changes.

toomany is a boot command to make adding tons of modules to earlier. This is cause overlayfs has 4096 charactor limit. If you mount option goes pass it will fail the mount. This is enable by default. You should be able to get about get 464 modules at max.

timezone is boot command to add timezone. Default is America/New_York.

locale is is boot command to change language. Default is en_US.

user is a boot command to change the user acount. Default is guest.

I even added gocryptfs support to encrypt homedat and perchdat. I have not test this feature in awhile. So maybe not use it outside of testing.

There most likely bugs and stuff cause just install stuff using debootstrap may not work right. (For example i think pulseaudio has a /.config/pulse in the root (/) not /root folder. I hope someone can figure out that bug. Also another bug i just notice is $HOME/.profile is not loading for me. As in the $HOME/.local/bin is not added to the PATH even when $HOME/.local/bin folder is there.)

Here is here is the link below: (You need to read description to understand how to make it.)
https://archive.org/details/bazinga-devuan-20251205
Download url is giving so you get the sb files.
https://archive.org/download/bazinga-devuan-20251205

greenjeans · 2025-12-06 22:46:08

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