Holidays (?) here too... Happy New Year Refracta team and users... Now I got a little time for beta5
It's really appreciated that Ibiblio is willing to host this at all but download is quite slow. As I have (for now) access to a faster web server, beta5 (unmodified) is mirrored here (please check the md5 sum before use):
http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/iso/original/In the upper directories can be found experimental scripts and modified versions (my snapshots)
Now, after extracting the squash, some observations on beta5 ...
#########################
There is stuff in /run/ which probably should not be there
#########################
The "help" menu f2 need references to
"Refracta-6.0.6" changed to "Refracta-7.0.0"
"Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)" changed to "Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)"
menus f3, f4 need references to:
"persistent" changed to "persistence"
menu f5 needs rewrite
All help menus: No need for "live-config", just "config" is OK
#########################
[slash]etc/fstab.d should exist but be empty (it is not)
#########################
no [slash]etc/fstab so still, bootlog errors...
fstab is in the "excludes" list... I did <touch [slash]etc/fstab> before mksquashfs
#########################
/lib/live/107-refracta-configs:
was written for squeeze. Useless for wheezy because live-config numbering has changed.
I wrote new script "1065-refracta-lang" to replace it. Script header explains what it does.
http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... racta-langThis is best (if approved at all by Refracta team) done as a deb package but that is not yet done
For non-US users: This enables locale and keyboard to be set automatically at bootup. If tzdata is also included on cmdline, e.g.
- Code:
config=refracta-lang,tzdata lang=de_DE
you get also the clock set to UTC as well as DE language and keyboard
The "mainstream" method involves quite a lot of error-prone typing at each startup, e.g. :
- Code:
live-config=locales,keyboard-configuration,tzdata locales=de_DE.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=de
This is ** not well tested but seen working for fr_FR es_ES en_GB de_DE
########################
As the main man from Debian Live admits that live-* in Wheezy is currently "unsupportable" we can presumably feel free to hack whatever we want, to make things work how we want. In any case, Debian Live actually provide templates to do just that.
#########################
My snapshot, done using
http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... shot-test8with (only) the above changes will be posted later
http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/iso/modified/ If that helps the next "official" version, good.