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Mint 17.2 Custom Image

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Mint 17.2 Custom Image

Postby Ryan » Sun Nov 20, 2016 4:31 pm

Hey guys

I'm trying to build a mint17.2 custom image, but I'm failing miserably at every attempt.
Is there a step by step guide for noobs available, or perhaps an easy GUI install option?

Thanks
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Re: Mint 17.2 Custom Image

Postby fsmithred » Sun Nov 20, 2016 7:43 pm

Are you having trouble installing refractasnapshot, or are you having trouble running it to make the snapshot?

Here's a thread about the problems installing the tools in mint-17:
no-go-on-mint-17-install-saved-iso-t559-10.html

If you need the repackaged live-config-sysvinit for mint17, the one I made is here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file ... u1_mod.deb

If running refractasnapshot is failing, run it with the -d option ('refractasnapshot -d' or 'refractasnapshot-gui -d') and then post the debug log (/var/log/refractanspahsot_error.log). (use pastebin.com or paste.debian.org or similar service)
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Re: Mint 17.2 Custom Image

Postby Ryan » Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:33 am

Having trouble installing, is there an installation guide for dummies?
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Re: Mint 17.2 Custom Image

Postby fsmithred » Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:10 am

Prepend commands with sudo if that's what you use for admin tasks.

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apt-get install live-boot live-config live-boot-initramfs-tools


Download the modified live-config-sysvinit that I linked above.
Download the latest refractasnapshot-base package here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/

Then
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dpkg -i live-config*.deb
dpkg -i refractasnapshot*.deb
apt-get -f install


For documentation, read /usr/share/doc/refractasnapshot-base/readme.refractasnapshot.txt and read the comments in the config file, etc/refractasnapshot.conf. If you need to make changes to which files get excluded from the snapshot, you can edit /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list

Quick start:
If you have a new installation with few or no added files, and you have a lot of free space on whatever partition holds your /home, then open a terminal and run
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sudo refractasnapshot

When you get to a list of 5 options, choose the first one - Create a snapshot
When it's done, there should be an iso file in /home/snapshot/.

If you want to install the refractasnapshot-gui package, you need to install yad. I don't know if that's in the mint-17 repo, so I kept it simple. The cli script is just as easy to use as the gui version.
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Re: Mint 17.2 Custom Image

Postby Ryan » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:20 pm

That worked, thank you very much!
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