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    Refracta Snapshots for Debian Live Systems

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    There is an interesting development effort called Refracta which may
    interest some of the more advanced Knoppix forum members. This effort
    is concerned with the progression of the iso of a live system with
    persistence to a subsequent iso which embodies the combination of an
    original iso with the contents of a persistence element. Refracta has
    three cardinal elements: refractasnapshot, refracta2usb & refractainstall.

    Quoting from a Refracta README:
    refracta2usb:
    Creates a live-USB from a live-CD iso file or from a running
    live system.

    refractainstaller:
    Installs a running live CD or USB to hard drive, copying any additions
    or changes that were made during the live session.

    refractasnapshot:
    Makes a bootable live-CD image from your installed system, copying any
    additions or changes you've made to the system.
    Refracta purports to be broadly applicable to most any Debian or Debian-like
    live system. There is some correlation with Debian.Live, where it seems
    that Debian.Live focuses more on using a live system to achieve an hdd install,
    whereas Refracta focuses more on persistence and the progression of isos of
    a live system from one level of development to another through 'snapshots'.
    In the Refracta clique, initial isos are referred-to as 'firmware'.

    This may be where the action is these days that we used to call re-mastering.
    I know that Debian.Live uses squashfs as part of its magic, so a lot of this
    may be familiar stuff to those who are fond of remastering, and have had
    some hankering to experiment with squashfs as a cloop replacement.

    I've not seen the Refracta code, so these are my impressions from auditing
    Refracta and Debian.Live forums and reading a few .deb README files.

    For further info see also the following

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/
    http://refracta.freeforums.org/refracta-f14.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-live...4/threads.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by utu View Post
    For further info see also the following:
    Read this whole thread for the briefest of any introduction to Refracta:
    http://www.debianuserforums.org/view...php?f=7&t=2788

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