Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:53 pm
fsmithred (Oct.15, 2011):
with version 9.0.1-2, installed the Linux Mint Debian Edition iso in virtualbox and created a bootable iso.
ukbrian (Dec.25, 2011):
I found the .deb files in /home/github/refracta so I did a fresh un-updated install of LMDE Xfce and installed refracta installer and snapshot without any problems and completed a snapshot and install to a different partition so refracta works on LMDE XFCE.
I also installed and used refracta successfully on SalineOS which is based on Squeeze.
I then bumped into this thread on the mint forum about qt4-fsarchiver which is a gui for fsarchiver for backing up partitions, it is being developed I think by a German guy.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=89189
ukbrian (Dec.26, 2011):
I just did a snapshot install of an up to date Xubuntu
The first snapshot didn't get created correctly but I thought there was some interaction with shutter which i had running, when I took the snapshot.
Took another snapshot from a reboot with nothing else running and this one did a refracta install no problem.many congratulations to the team. (Pat-on -back)
ukbrian (Dec.27, 2011):
I just got this PM on the mint forum from a guy who installed refracta on a Debian Sid install after i PM'ed him the a link to the .debs.
He's gerd50 on this thread http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=89189
If I'm reading you correctly you managed to successfully install a refracta backup of Sid possibly LMDE?
No, what i wanted to say was, i can't call up the installer gui from the menu entry.
I can call up the installer script in the cli. But because the snapshot i created (tried it several
times) is incomplete, i have nothing to reinstall.
Possibly i could install your qt4 xfce snapshot. But the script wants to install Grub and that is
something i don't want...
Where would you like the GRUB bootloader to be installed?
(probably a drive, like /dev/sda): exit
exit does not exist!
gerd50@rudi-ratlos:~$
I think at this point the installer first should ask - do you want to install Grub (yes or no):
and if the answer is yes, then ask where to install Grub.
fsmithred (Dec.27, 2011):
If you don't want to install a boot loader when using the cli installer script, just leave it blank when it asks for the drive. It should ask if you're sure you don't want a boot loader and then continue. If it's not behaving that way, I need to fix it. I don't know why the gui installer didn't start for your friend. The other way to start it is with the command, `/usr/bin/refractainstaller-gui`. Check the error log if it doesn't run. (/var/log/refractainstaller_errors or something like that.)
Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:55 pm
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
rsync: write failed on "/tmp/work/myfs/home/user/ukbrian/firefox/profiles/menus/urlclassifier3.sqlite": No space left on device (28)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (113853 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9]
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 207: 3827 Terminated zenity --title="Copying filesystem..." --progress --pulsate
sed: can't read /tmp/work/myfs/etc/pmount.allow: No such file or directory
Write failed because No space left on device
Write on destination failed because No space left on device
Read on destination failed
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 223: 3834 Terminated zenity --title="Squashing filesystem..." --progress --pulsate
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
68.49% done, estimate finish Mon Jan 23 12:29:45 2012
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 2358
Total directory bytes: 6144
Path table size(bytes): 38
Max brk space used 0
7315 extents written (14 MB)
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 242: 3850 Terminated zenity --title="Creating CD image file..." --progress --pulsate
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 276: 3857 Terminated zenity --title="Cleaning..." --progress --pulsate
Tony Brejeski, the developer of Remastersys, pointed out YAD and some of the things it could do well over 6 months ago, stating that he would be moving to it for the Remastersys Installer. I wasn't all too excited about a toolkit that exists outside Debian on Google code only, until I looked into using it for 2.x. Yad makes many more things feasible to do using dialog windows, like taking multiple inputs at once, this was impossible with Zenity. It also allows the use of custom buttons and an almost arbitrary number of buttons. He really was correct in that it is everything that Zenity should have been but never was.
I am just getting started playing around with Yad and figuring out how exactly it parses things, but I can say so far that I really like it and most everything I write will be using it. The man page states it takes standard gtk options, this means if I start getting creative I could do almost anything with it.
Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:02 pm
- /home/work
Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:08 pm
Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:20 pm
I use the same set up when I install most distros, I create a 20 GB partition as / and put everything in it, I then put a symbolic link in home pointing at a data partition where I store all data.Looks like the main issue was running out of space on /tmp. If your tmp partition is not big enough
Spot on, I record the video output from one machine on a USB capture box on a second machine and the resolution is 1280x720.1024x768 or lower, that could be the issue.
Is there command I can put into the terminal to get this info?Some distros use different (distro-specific) live-boot/live config setups
Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:08 am
Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:44 am
# mount /tmp as a tmpfs
RAMTMP=yes
CONCURRENCY=no
Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:00 pm
One (only) positive comment: nice icon theme.
I did as you suggested and added /home/work to the exclude file and everything works.work_dir="/home/work" in /etc/refractasnapshot.conf.
Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:16 pm
Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:55 pm