Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 08 Sep 2013 19:51:25 Benjamin Block wrote:
>> Hej folks,
>>
>> I wonder what is a good way to create an image of a gentoo-system, so
>> that one can apply it later to the same or other computers.
>>
>> In my case it is a rather simple setup: one partition, no encryption or
>> lvm. Its a debug-setup, so its only used for certain programming-tasks
>> and not for daily work, so no need for something fancy. The time I setup
>> that system I also used only conservative compilation-flags and
>> optimisation, so that it can be used on other CPUs (well, they have to
>> be x86_64 and have to have mmx/sse[23] - but I think every setup that I
>> intend to use this on will have these properties).
>>
>> So I reckon that one could just use tar with permission-preservation and
>> some excludes like dev/sys/proc/tmp. But is this a good idea or is there
>> a better way to do this? I never cloned a gentoo-system, so thats why I
>> would like to be at least somewhat sure about it, so that I don't have
>> to reconfigure it later again, because I messed it up :D
>>
>> best regards,
>> - Ben
>
> You're referring to a 'stage 4' iso.  Have a look at this M/L perhaps 5 years
> back when I recall someone posting a thread about it.
>
> There may also be a thread in the forums and potentially the (old) wiki.
>

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Backup

One of those should help.  If not, Google for "Gentoo starge4" without the quotes of course.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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