First there's really nothing new about this flavor of Debian except that persistency is easier and faster than a debian persistent usb and unlike debian it can be frugally installed to a usb or hdd and boot from ext2/3/4 and fat32 partitions (I couldn't get Debian Live to boot from ext2/3/4 hhd/usb), it's also smaller than most Debian isos.
It includes Plop bootmanager which can boot computers from cd/usb even without bios support
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/intro.html
It also includes NetBootCD for net installing distros
https://www.lakora.us/netbootcd/
And TinyCore Pure64
https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/
It's built using a modified (by me) Linux-Live Kit (Slax)
https://www.linux-live.org/
I used Linux-Live Kit plus Netbootcd (to install debian), and aufs-dkms from debian repsoitories, so basically it's a Debian/Slax flavor with a customized desktop.
You have access to both Root and user Live desktops
Passwords-
Root=root
User "Live"=live
Installation from cd/usb/hdd is available but is a manual process of copying the live filesystem (/) to hdd.
Installation to usb is also manually done but much easier or you can use Unetbootin, and most usb install GUI's like in AntiX, Arcolinux, Ubuntu, etc. There are 2 scripts in the boot folder; bootinst.bat for windows and bootinst.sh for linux, these are Slax scripts for install to fat32 usb.
To manually install from running system simply mount the iso, copy the contents to usb, then install syslinux (fat32), or extlinux/grub if using ext2/3/4 formatted usb/hdd
mount iso somewhere, make a folder in /mnt, then use cp to copy to hdd partition or usb.
Code:
mkdir /mnt/usb
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop Stretch-RC1-x86_64.iso /mnt/iso
mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/usb (where sdxx is your hdd partition or usb, example sdb1 for usb, sda1 for hdd)
cp -avf /mnt/iso/* /mnt/usb
syslinux -s /dev/sdxx
extlinux -i /dev/sdxx or extlinux -i /mnt/usb
or install grub
Additionally it comes with 4 scripts sourced from Linux-Live kit- dir2sb, sb2dir, savechanges and a slax script which enables/disables module loading and saving changes. dir2sb turns any folder into a .sb file which can be put in /Stretch/modules directory and it will load at boot. sb2dir does the opposite.
their output
Code:
root@debian:~# slax
Usage: /usr/bin/slax [ activate | deactivate | list ] [ file.sb ]
root@debian:~# savechanges
savechanges - save all changed files in a compressed filesystem bundle
- excluding some predefined files such as /etc/mtab,
temp & log files, empty directories, apt cache, and such
Usage:
/usr/bin/savechanges [ target_file.sb ] [ changes_directory ]
If changes_directory is not specified, /run/initramfs/memory/changes is used.
root@debian:~# dir2sb
Usage: /usr/bin/dir2sb [source_directory] [target_file.sb] [ -d
root@debian:~# sb2dir
Convert .sb compressed module into directory tree
usage: /usr/bin/sb2dir source_file.sb existing_output_directory
Boot parameters are slax.flags=toram slax.flags=perch (persistent) and slax.flags=automount. There are others as well.
So if you wanted to boot persistent, toram, and automount all aprtitions it would be slax.flags=toram,perch,automount in any order
It uses the default Stretch kernel with aufs-dkms added to work with Linux-Live Kit.
Notable apps include Firefox, Gparted, Synaptic, Audacious, Isomaster, Midnight Commander, Leafpad, Gimp, WICD, Pulseaudio, Xfburn, Abiword, Gaiksaurus, Bleachbit, Gdebi, Grub Cusomizer and of course everything that comes with XFCE like Thunar.
Remastering- simply add or remove whatever you want then become root and cd into root/linux-live-2.1 and invoke the build script
./build and in no time you have your own flavor! It makes a folder in / called livecd which is where it will put the finished live distro and a script for creating iso.
Also if you want to change the name of your distro you need to edit the config and build script.
I have not tried any of the Debian boot cheatcodes yet.
The unaltered Linux-Live-2.1.tar.gz is also in the /root folder.
It should run well on most older computers also. It was built on a Dell Inspiron 1545 with 3GB RAM.
Primarily I'm looking for feedback from anyone who wishes to try it, as I love remastering and making live distros!
I also have a variation for Slackware 14.2 using the Xanmod 4.19.29 aufs patched kernel.
Attached pics are boot screen, user "live" desktop and root desktop.
If I left anything out I'll edit post.
Thanks for looking!
Here's download link, it's tar.gz with the iso and md5sum text contained within.
https://www.filehosting.org/file/det...etchRC1.tar.gz
