Refracta snapshot turns your installed system into a hybrid-iso (configurable through text files).Similar to remastersys, but definitely not of the same scope (still cool that there's at least something similar to remastersys).
Refracta installer is a simple decent installer to use to install your iso to a hard drive with many options that you would expect.
There's guis available for these tools, however i'm pretty sure without the guis, they can be used via cli. They work in all branches of debian. I don't much care for the refracta distribution itself (it's quite good, just don't need it, i made my own distribution for my own needs). All of the tools are found
here.
Why these tools matter (for those who care):Those using ubuntu and make an iso of their installed system are probably familiar with remastersys. Remastersys has been discontinued because the developer got really fed up with insensitive people. Black lab linux has since forked the remastersys code. Remastersys was also available for debian.
With remastersys no longer. There's a few options for debian and ubuntu. There's making your own iso with debian live tools as also can be done with ubuntu (too bad live-build is ****ed up for the moment; i've worked on my live-build script long enough to find out it's not me, i got really tired of "maybe failed", and just ate the fact that i just don't have the time to wait on being able to use the debian installer for my own distribution). So all that really left was refracta tools available for refracta linux since live-build blows right now leaving the best method to make an iso from an installed system. I'm sure there's other stuff out there to use. But for now, these tools work great; i've thoroughly tested them. So far the only thing you can't do with the installer is change your hostname (change it after you install; i care because i like reducing post install configuration wherever i can).
There's a third tool called refracta2usb. I don't quite get the point of it when i can just use dd or just plain old install linux to a usb drive (or just use unetbootin or something).
Conclusion:These tools aren't architecture dependent. I got what i needed with them. And it sure was fun testing the kanotix and mepis installers in debian testing (mepis installer really only works with mepis, kanotix installer required too much hand holding outside of kanotix, but did work for the most part).
