Please do me a favor and keep track of what's on your wishlist. Some of it will get done quickly, as you've seen, and some of it will take a while.
No problem, I'm very, very happy with snapshot/installer with those few tweaks you have already done. It seems a minor thing adding a line to fstab and leaving the partition label in place but when I boot into my fresh install and everything is just the same as what I snapshoted with all my symlinks working and nothing to do it puts a very big smile on my face, it's a wonderful buzz, many thanks to you.
Right now, I just want to make sure everything is working properly so I can be done with it for a bit.
Everything is sweet with me just carry on with what your focused on friend.
This is just jotted down while I can remember so just ignore this I installed an earlier snapshot so this isn't a problem for me.
I installed a 3.8.4 32 bit kernel that groni the mod on solusos compiled but then I had a problem with the snapshot ISO booting, when I select unionfs on the boot menu the screen gives a quick flicker but doesn't boot up and even if I boot into the original 3.3.6 kernel and make a fresh snapshot the same thing happens.
I then used Dean's knockoff script and it gave these errors in the terminal at the start.
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rsync: link_stat "/vmlinuz" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]
I don't think it's a refracta error, I think groni and Sandman might be missing something when they compile the kernel or it removes something but I'm just guessing, you guys have far more knowledge than I and groni and Sandman would would appreciate any feedback/help if you have the time.
This is the refractasnapshot error log
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cp: cannot stat `/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/initrd.img': No such file or directory
tee: standard output: Resource temporarily unavailable
tee: write error
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 397: 20747 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Copying filesystem..." --progress --pulsate --width 300
rm: cannot remove `/home/work/myfs/etc/rc*.d/*clamav-freshclam': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/work/myfs/etc/ssh/sshd_config: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/home/work/iso/pkglist*': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 480: 23007 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Squashing filesystem..." --progress --pulsate --width 300
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
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Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 2614
Total directory bytes: 8192
Path table size(bytes): 76
Max brk space used 1a000
597834 extents written (1167 MB)
(yad:23026): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
isohybrid: Warning: more than 1024 cylinders: 1168
isohybrid: Not all BIOSes will be able to boot this device
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 495: 23026 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Creating CD image file..." --progress --pulsate --width 300
(yad:23182): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_remove: assertion `tag > 0' failed
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 511: 23182 Terminated $DIALOG --title="Cleaning..." --progress --pulsate
I've run Anthony's saline-backup on the 3.8.4 kernel and cloned the partition and also successfully created a backup file that installed OK if that's any help.
Groni and Sandman are German speaking but there's also Spanish and Dutch language sub forums on the Solus forums if you ever need translations to make refractasnapshot international.
I've never used USB's for installing before but shortly I'll give refractausb a try
