From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Ejh10-0001c4-QF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:54:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB6HrJPk004908; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:53:19 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB6Hn2FZ008478 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:49:02 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h29so73751wxd for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:49:02 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pk/kUwvc6YtpM9qphXrwGKtb487PiSXhODsrrZu7UAJxa8POrcLuZTzpwulJAhli5CukfI7c7eMk+P1ZQGjDbRalV+/bxG5iyXyt/qtkBUqwHk72KdzTXvyrUFpc3AMYf320xGBtl2Fe7MX3HUx9M3Bg6monZr6hqYkZFW9Hi1o= Received: by 10.70.115.9 with SMTP id n9mr949101wxc; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.20.213? ( [209.129.85.4]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h34sm504273wxd.2005.12.06.09.49.01; Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:49:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4395CEF1.6020205@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:48:33 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I make an installable copy References: <43958A3D.8020809@telkomsa.net> In-Reply-To: <43958A3D.8020809@telkomsa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 00b63c69-c048-433a-b274-b948f9607a26 X-Archives-Hash: d577742ac2dc8f18ef236071ed2c0114 Mike Kenny wrote: > I now have my stage 3 installed an working. Am in the process of > downloading all the requirements for openXchange (Man! I love emerge) > > But, many (most) users will not want to go to the trouble that I have. > In fact, in South Africa most won't have access to the bandwidth to do > this. I am looking for a link to a tutorial or howto that will inform me > how to: > > 1. After I have a basic bootable system created, create a backup CD from > which I can boot and re-install in the event of a catastrophe 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). > 2. After I have configured servers (Apache or JBoss or openXchange, > etc.) create a DVD or set of CDs which can be booted and installed from > without all the re-configuration 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. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list