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