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Mike Kenny wrote: |
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> I now have my stage 3 installed an working. Am in the process of |
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> downloading all the requirements for openXchange (Man! I love emerge) |
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> But, many (most) users will not want to go to the trouble that I have. |
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> In fact, in South Africa most won't have access to the bandwidth to do |
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> this. I am looking for a link to a tutorial or howto that will inform me |
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> how to: |
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> 1. After I have a basic bootable system created, create a backup CD from |
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> which I can boot and re-install in the event of a catastrophe |
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Use tar or some other archive utility (possibly mksquashfs) to make a complete backup of the root filesystem (use "mount" with no arguments to see mount points that should be excluded). |
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> 2. After I have configured servers (Apache or JBoss or openXchange, |
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> etc.) create a DVD or set of CDs which can be booted and installed from |
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> without all the re-configuration |
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The easiest way to make a customized bootable cd/dvd is to remaster an existing one. The mkisofs manpage documents the creation of a bootable iso image. You will also want to consult the eltorito documentation for isolinux or grub depending on which boot loader you choose. |
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Zac |
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