
About Exton|Defender SRS

Description
Exton|Defender SRS is a Linux system
available as a Live DVD based on Rawhide
(upcoming Fedora
33), 64bit - version 200623 for administrating or
repairing your system and data after a crash.
Exton|Defender aims to provide an easy way to carry out
admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and
editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of
Linux software such as system tools and basic tools
(editors, Midnight Commander, network tools).
Exton|Defender can, however, also be used as a normal
Linux Desktop System. It requires no hard drive
installation, but can be installed to hard drive if you
want. Desktop environment: Cinnamon
4.6.4.
System Tools included
NTFS-3g,
GParted,
PartImage,
Shred, Sfdisk (util-linux-ng),
Rsync,
Ddrescue,
FSArchiver,
TestDisk
and Midnight
Commander. Other programs (among many others):
NetworkManager, Firefox, Thunderbird, Samba,
Emacs, Safecopy,
kernel headers and many compilation tools. See a complete
LIST of all installed packages 200623.
(Exton|Defender version 200623).
  
NEWS 200623 re. Exton|Defender fc33 (Rawhide
upcoming Fedora 33 )
I’ve made a new version of Exton|Defender 64 bit. Now
based on upcoming Fedora
33. It uses Cinnamon
4.6.4 and kernel 5.8-rc1.
About Fedora
Please read this overview.
Passwords
In version 200623 (Fedora 33) there is no
password for liveuser and root.
Just login to Cinnamon as liveuser and/or root without
any password. (You will be automatically logged
in to Cinnamon as liveuser).
Configuring X
X is auto-configured during the boot from the USB
stick/DVD.
Default
language
The default language (locale) is set to
English.
Sudo
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Mint and many other so-called beginner
distributions (and other Linux systems) use Sudo to
do something that requires root (superuser)
privileges. There really is no need for a root
password. "Examples of Command": sudo mkdir
/usr/MyFiles. Read HERE
about how Sudo works. When logged in as liveuser in
the Fedora version from 190121 just run the command su
to become root. (You can also use sudo su).
Install Google Chrome
(for Netflix)
You can't run Netflix
in Firefox. For that you'll need Google
Chrome. Read this INSTRUCTION.
You can install Google Chrome even while running
Exton|Defender live. Just run the command sudo dnf
install google-chrome-stable.
DNF - Fedora Package
Management
DNF is a software package manager that
installs, updates, and removes packages on
RPM-based Linux distributions. Used
by Fedora. Basically you'll only need two commands: dnf update and dnf install
MyGreatProgram. Read
more about DNF...
The ISO-file
is of 2260 MB.
INSTALL
Exton|Defender - FC33 (version 200623) on a USB
stick of at least 4 GB
Use Rufus in Windows.
Watch this screenshot.
You can also use Etcher.
No persistence though.
Installation to a USB
stick in Linux - no persistence
Use the following commands as root.
1. isohybrid
exton-defender-fc33-64bit-cinnamon-2260mb-200623.iso
2. cp
exton-defender-fc33-64bit-cinnamon-2260mb-200623.iso
/dev/sdX
(X can be
/dev/sdb,
/dev/sdc
or....Check it carefully first so you don't lose data)
3. sync
Installation to a
USB stick in Fedora or Ubuntu - with persistence!
Use the following command as root in Fedora:
time livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 2048 $EFI
--format --reset-mbr
exton-defender-fc33-64bit-cinnamon-2260mb-200623.iso
/dev/sdX - screenshot
when the command is running.
NOTE 1: Change X to b, d, e or...
Check it carefully to avoid data losses. You must use
the whole stick (for example /dev/sdb) not a partition
(for example /dev/sdb1).
NOTE 2: After a few changes you can also use
the above command also in Ubuntu. Read
more about it... and see also below.
NOTE 3: The above command is the only one
that actually works. And you can't use Fedora
Media Writer (or any other program with a GUI
(if you want persistence).
NOTE 4: If you don't have an installed Fedora
system on your computer you can run Exton|Defender
from a DVD and install to a USB stick using the
command above. Or run Exton|Defender from one USB
stick and install to another USB stick.
NOTE 5: Exton|Defender/Fedora won't run on ALL
computers from a USB stick when installed this
way.
About installing to a USB stick in Ubuntu
As you can see on the website
I'm referring to above you'll have to fetch and
install certain packages. I.e. download livecd-tools
and install cryptsetup-bin. You must also install
syslinux with sudo apt install syslinux.
Furthermore you must place four files in
/usr/share/syslinux. Namely ldlinux.c32, libcom32.c32,
libutil.c32 and mbr.bin. You can download a zipped
folder with said files here.
Unzip and move the folder syslinux to /usr/share. You
must also copy the file mbr.bin to /usr/bin. Then
insert a pre-formatted USB stick and run the following
commands: 1) cd livecd-tools-master/tools
2) time ./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb
3072 $EFI --format --reset-mbr
exton-defender-fc33-64bit-cinnamon-2260mb-200623.iso
/dev/sdX - watch
a screenshot when said command is executed.
NOTE: Change X to b, d, e or... Check
it carefully to avoid data losses. You must use the
whole stick (for example /dev/sdb) not a partition
(for example /dev/sdb1).
Running Exton|Defender from a USB stick
It works very well. You can (of course) install new
packages and upgrade the whole Rawhide system. For
that you can use the command line (example: sudo
dnf install gimp) or dnfdragora
("a dnf frontend"). Watch a screenshot
when dnfdragora is running. NOTE: When
upgrading the system be sure not to upgrade
the kernel and kernel headers. If you do the USB stick
will be made unbootable.
INSTALL Exton|Defender - FC33 (version
200623) to hard drive
Use Anaconda
(Fedora's installer). Please read this
INSTRUCTION.
You can (if you want) use Grub2
as boot loader. IMPORTANT NOTE: Since this
Defender Build is based on an unstable version of
Fedora I must strongly discourage you from
installing Exton|Defender on a computer where you
already have other Linux systems (and perhaps
Windows installed). You may mess up your current
(working) boot loader. So if you want persistence
install Exton|Defender to a USB stick the way I
describe above. It is a much safer alternative!
CONFIGURING
X
X is auto-configured during the boot from the DVD
disc or your USB stick. If not you'll end up in
console mode. Run the command sudo X -configure
followed by sudo mv xorg.conf.new
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. Then run startx.
When running Exton|Defender on one of my computers
with an Nvidia
card I had to start in "basic graphics mode". I.e. VESA.
When automatically logged in to Cinnamon I pressed Ctrl
Alt F3 and thus went into console mode. Then I
ran the command init 1 to leave X. After
that I could successfully run the above mentioned
commands and re-enter Cinnamon with the command startx.
The driver Nouveau
was used!
SCREENSHOTS
Screenshot
1 of Exton|Defender´s Cinnamon 4.6.4 Desktop
Screenshot
2 - Installation of Google Chrome
Screenshot
3 - Netflix is running
Download
Exton|Defender can be
downloaded from SourceForge.net
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Open Source applications and software directory »
DOWNLOAD
md5sum
file for the Exton|Defender version 200623 (Fedora 33)
ISO file
of 2260 MB

Feedback
Fedora 32/33 is at least as "good" as Ubuntu
20.04/Linux Mint and/or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I
think. Tell me what you think of Exton|Defender
SRS in combination with the Cinnamon Desktop.
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