Mike McCarty wrote: > Justin P. Mattock wrote: > >> alright, >> (didn't see that while doing a quick google). >> There has to be something simple to do this. >> I myself would like to create an .iso of what I created. >> So If I blow up my system it a simple insert the livecd and >> re-install, rather than starting from the beginning. >> > > Sorry to reply so late. I've been busy with other things. What > you are describing is not making an ISO image of what you have > built. What you are describing is a bare metal recovery backup, > which is distinctly a different thing. There are several ways > to do this. A very simple way is to boot using some LiveCD > (I like Knoppix) and mount your file system(s) RW. Then you > can fill them from /dev/zero until they are maxed out, and > dd (or whatever you use) aborts with the disc full. Then you > delete the huge file. This fills your partition with all > zeroes, so things compress better. After that, you can simply > use gzip (or you favorite compression algorithm) to compress > the entire file system, and using any of several techniques, > break it up into multiple CDROM or DVDROMs. Yakup shows one > way to do this. > > There are several others. > > A somewhat more sophisticated technique is detailed in > > http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html > > This allows you to bypass re installation and restoral of a backup, > but doesn't absolutely tie you down to bare partition images. This > may be the easiest thing for you to use. However, it also pretty > much presumes very little actual hardware change. > > There are other packages out there, some free, some not so free, > which promise to do it for you. However, if you want to understand > what happens and be in control of how the backup and restore take > place, then try designing your own, or follow the HOWTO I gave > the link to above. > > Mike > Cool, thanks for that. The main problem I have right now is if I use fedora or ubuntu, it just takes too long to load up(about 10min). I'm looking for something that I can load up, and have boot just as fast as a regular system or close to it, this way if I need to make a small fix it's not an all day event kinda thing.
but will see, Ill have a look at the documentation that you had posted. Justin P. Mattock -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
