Minimal and CLI respins

[Adrian]

I think I've found the culprit, I removed genisoimage and for some reason cli-installer-antix depends on that.
@anticapitalista is that correct dependency or we can get away with genisoimage? Why would the installer need to generate an iso image? Or maybe it uses another tool provided by genisoimage...

[RaXorX]

@Helen-Earth
Thanks, I'll try this as soon as I'm home and update the post.

@Helen-Earth I tried that. And seems like Adrian already found the issue too.
@Adrian genisoimage has 2 other dependencies, libmagic-mgc and libmagic1 as per apt-get.
Installing genisoimage also installs the other. If I try to install cli-installer-antix then it also tries to download genisoimage.

Now WAIT a sec... I just tried that, ran cli-installer and along one of the lines it says this installer will not work for UEFI boot...

[Adrian]

Now WAIT a sec... I just tried that, ran cli-installer and along one of the lines it says this installer will not work for UEFI boot...

Newest version of installer can do UEFI, but I think we don't have that yet in our repos, hold on, let me ask if we can add that to our repos.

[Helen-Earth]

Now WAIT a sec... I just tried that, ran cli-installer and along one of the lines it says this installer will not work for UEFI boot...

Newest version of installer can do UEFI, but I think we don't have that yet in our repos, hold on, let me ask if we can add that to our repos.

Yer thats what I found to no uefi support. So I installed the minimal last night works just fine. Thanks

[Senpai]

Hi @Adrian, I tried to make a snapshot with iso-snapshot-cli both from your respin "CLI" and from "Minimal",
I have tried it both in virtual machine and physical machine, and in the only partition that has the system "/" without /home, there is plenty of space on the hard disk... but I always get this error:

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"iso-snapshot-cli" fails when trying to do the snapshot, it comes ta the option of:
"Compressing the file system..." and the error it gives is:
"FATAL ERROR: Failed to open exclude file /usr/local/share/excludes/iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list" because No such file or directory.
Error Could not create linuxfs file, check if you have enough space on the target partition.
Cleaning up...
Done
Interrupted or failed to complete

[Adrian]

What is the version of the program?

[Senpai]

What is the version of the program?

Hi:
Now it is the latest 23.4, but it also happened to me with the ISO-cli downloaded a few days ago from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... y_Respins/, then I suppose it has been updated to this last one but the problem persists...

[Adrian]

OK, I see what happened. the file is actually in /etc/iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list for mx-snapshot there's a link that is creates when the package is installed to /etc/mx-snapshot-exclude.list, but I forgot to add the same link creation for iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list. Not sure how it worked for me, I will fix that shortly. If you want to use it you can just create a link by yourself

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sudo ln -s /etc/iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list /usr/local/share/excludes/iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list

[Senpai]

OK, I see what happened. the file is actually in /etc/iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list for mx-snapshot there's a link that is creates when the package is installed to /etc/mx-snapshot-exclude.list, but I forgot to add the same link creation for iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list. Not sure how it worked for me, I will fix that shortly. If you want to use it you can just create a link by yourself

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sudo ln -s /etc/iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list /usr/local/share/excludes/iso-snapshot-cli-exclude.list

Hi:
Working both by creating the link and with the new 23.4.01 update.

[andy]

Hi @Adrian,
thank you for CLI respin, I have liked it a lot - very useful for my miniserver. Wanted to use minimalistic version suitable for server, as little attack surface as possible, stay at Debian base, but without systemd.
Looking forward to Bookworm version, very much.
I plan also use the USB maker functionality, which makes it exceptional.

Please, if possible, prepare it for us!