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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 08 Sep 2013 19:51:25 Benjamin Block wrote: |
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>> Hej folks, |
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>> I wonder what is a good way to create an image of a gentoo-system, so |
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>> that one can apply it later to the same or other computers. |
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>> In my case it is a rather simple setup: one partition, no encryption or |
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>> lvm. Its a debug-setup, so its only used for certain programming-tasks |
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>> and not for daily work, so no need for something fancy. The time I setup |
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>> that system I also used only conservative compilation-flags and |
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>> optimisation, so that it can be used on other CPUs (well, they have to |
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>> be x86_64 and have to have mmx/sse[23] - but I think every setup that I |
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>> intend to use this on will have these properties). |
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>> So I reckon that one could just use tar with permission-preservation and |
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>> some excludes like dev/sys/proc/tmp. But is this a good idea or is there |
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>> a better way to do this? I never cloned a gentoo-system, so thats why I |
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>> would like to be at least somewhat sure about it, so that I don't have |
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>> to reconfigure it later again, because I messed it up :D |
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>> best regards, |
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>> - Ben |
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> You're referring to a 'stage 4' iso. Have a look at this M/L perhaps |
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5 years |
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> back when I recall someone posting a thread about it. |
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> There may also be a thread in the forums and potentially the (old) wiki. |
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http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4 |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Backup |
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One of those should help. If not, Google for "Gentoo starge4" without |
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the quotes of course. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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