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vnc over ssh to a machine that is local to the NAS and can access the NAS through the QuickConnect link. I know that works. I don't think you can access the QuickConnect link from outside the local network. Or maybe you can do it if you have port forwarding set up for the NAS. I never tried it that ...

Another possibility is that the group of Debian and Devuan developers who are working together on things like sysvinit, openrc and elogind will continue to work together and get things done.

Newer new versions. Made some changes around encrypted systems. (both installing to encrypted and making snapshot from encrypted.) Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/ Docs: https://refracta.org/documents.html refractasnapshot (10.2.10) * Updated splash, isolinux.bin, ch...

Try installing live-config-systemd first, then try installing refractasnapshot-base again. If there's a way to tell gdebi to exclude Recommends, that might help, too. What is different about your setup? Check /etc/apt/sources.list and any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Do you have any packages p...

How were you trying to install the refracta tools? The terminal output you posted makes no sense. The packages should install without any problems in debian. Exactly which packages did you try to install? If you added a devuan repository to your debian sources, remove it immediately and refresh/upda...

I've never tried to dd an isohybrid to a partition, so I don't know if that works. I do know that you should only do one of the following, not both: 495 time install-mbr /dev/sde 498 time dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/mbr.bin of=/dev/sde and if you use syslinux, I think you would need to have a syslin...

New versions of refractasnapshot and refractainstaller are available ifor Debian Buster/Sid and Devuan Beowulf/Ceres. You can get them from the refracta page at sourceforge or from the Devuan Ceres repo. The ones on sf are signed with my key and have ~fsr in the version. Other than that, they are th...

refracta2usb uses a fat32 partition, marked bootable, for the operating systems. You can either put the intact iso file or the contents of the iso file on the usb. (Each OS gets its own directory). You can have a second (or third, or more) partition (linux partition) for persistence, either using th...

dd won't work for a multi-boot usb unless the image you use is already multi-boot. https://www.circuidipity.com/multi-boot-usb/ That way looks interesting, and it should work. But if you want to have any persistent volumes where you can save files or configuration changes that will still be there af...

From the x11-apps package...
The geometry setting puts it in the upper-right corner of a 1280x1024 screen. Without that, it comes up in the middle of the screen. Adjust the position to your liking.

That's a shame, is there any thought of making a free ISO image available? EDIT: ah, I see it is an option in the expert installer, very nice 8) EDIT2: suggestion: make free the default unless non-free is actually needed by the hardware? Yes, if you do an expert install with a mirror, you will be a...

You might want to look at this page about using gpt disks with bios booting:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html

I'll try it in virtualbox with a gpt partition table when I get a chance.

3. I made a gpt partition table, and the installed only wanted to use it as mbr. At what point in the installation did it complain about the gpt partition table? The installer is just a bash script that calls some system commands to do the job. After it asks you which partitions to use, it formats ...

Hi 1> Live Mode: It failed to boot on ram option The toram option in live-boot has been there for years and normally works. Are you sure you allowed enough ram in your VM? (size of iso + however much you want to use for running the system.) 3> Live Media Installer: 1. Failed to differ between the g...

That sounds like a recipe for some interesting problems. I don't know what happens if you have two efi partitions connected at the same time. The approach I would take is to unplug sda, use a live-usb (or live-CD) to run gparted and shrink sdd1 to make room for the new efi partition. Put the new par...

Wow again. Sorry I'm late to the party. I've been so busy, I forgot all about this thread. Garry, thank you! I posted because I thought it was a bit severe for the original thread to get locked so quickly. I didn't think this one would last, either. But you fixed it double. You pinned the original, ...

Can you at least pin it for a few days before letting it sink into oblivion?

Thanks.

Well, I tried, but I can't test it. I put a debian-live-8.2 iso on a usb, booted it, added a couple of files, changed the background and installed a package. Then I tried to start the installer from the desktop icon, and it won't start. If I have to reboot to get to the installer, I'll lose my chang...

No offense taken. Some people like to modify the script for their own use, and I'm happy to help with that. Do you happen to know if the debian installer would install the live system on the CD instead of just doing a generic debian install? I could try it, but I'm hoping someone else knows and can ...

I actually have the same question and have only looked into it a little. It's been so long since I've used an official debian-live iso, I forget whether the installer will install what you're running or installs from a list of packages like the regular install isos do. I just mounted a debian-live i...