Hi to all, I'm 68 and I done a bit of tweaking of screen forms and databases in Visual Basic 4 in the 90's on a bespoke office app I had written for me by a friend for a small company I set up, but I can't read/understand/comprehend manuals.
I do not use a separate home partition but have a sym link in home pointing to a NTFS data partition that stores my iceweasel/icedove profiles and all my data files so that any OS's I install use the same profiles including windows apps.
On my desktop a 3 core AMD with ATI graphics using the standard linux drivers I installed Refracta and the only problem I encountered was that it didn't see either of my Logitech C270/300 cameras, no problem with the mics.
I used both the Refracta snapshot and install scripts with no problems.
I did a fresh install of LMDE Xfce, updated it and installed the refractasnapshot/install .debs. The snapshot took 20 minutes to complete and the installer installed from the iso with no problems so I guess you have the basic's in the scripts done and it might be time to start polishing up the interface.
I was surprised that Refracta worked on LMDE as I had read on the remastersys forums before fragelic retired that LMDE wasn't quite true debian and remastersys would not work on it.
I installed the Refracta debs on SalineOS which is Debian Stable based with Xfce which I have been using as my main OS for a few months now and you both seem to be treading the same path.
The Refracta snapshot installed successfully with no problems
Refracta scripts took 10 minutes to run and Saline's remastersys took 5 minutes, I only mention in case it's of interest, it's not a race or competition, the only things that matter are reliability and a user friendly interface.
Anthony Nordquist the developer has made a truly excellent job of updating the remastersys scripts and has written others one you might be interested in one is Grub-Doctor.
I did try Refractasnapshot on AVLinux, a distro that shared the remastersys forums and is aimed at folk editing audio and video, a very full distro, 13GB installed but the only debian distro I have found using a later kernel than 2.6.38 that doesn't make me sound like donald duck in skype, audacity etc. and is the reason I don't use LMDE. AVLinux doesn't use Pulseaudio which might be the answer to the sound problem.
The debs installed and the snapshot ran OK but the iso seized up when you pressed enter on an option on the opening menu. I had the same problem with an earlier version of refracta I tried a few months ago.
I tried RefractaMagic on a couple of other Debian distros but snapshot.deb had a version problem with live-boot 2.0.15 when they only had live-boot 2.0.14 installed.
I found this text when the installer is nearly finished confusing.
Installing the boot loader...
Installation finished. No error reported.
and would suggest using
Installing the boot loader...
Installation almost finished. No errors reported.
as it hasn't quite finished and you could start banging away at the keyboard at that point(I did once).
I think you need a name for your remastersys type scripts as Refracta is the name of your distro, maybe RefractaClone or something if I may be so bold.
If you change the script to write UUID's to the fstab this post might be of interest as I seem to be one of the minority of folk who use labels to identify their partitions and it gave a problem with Saline's remaster scripts
http://salinelinux.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=installsetup&action=display&thread=383Another post about formatting the install partition that might be of interest is
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=189&t=68762Hope this post was helpful to you, I'm exhausted from all this typing as I'm an end user who uses a mouse so I'm off back to my cave for a few days rest.

but congratulations on a fine distro and some excellent scripts, I used your tzk script to correct a time problem on a Saline install.

edit Just trying a snapshot on AVLinux again and I think you could double the default width of all the screen forms to make them more readable.