Unique installing way/problem

[Coximus]

I Have successfully installed Gentoo on my personal PC, while using various kind people’s internet connections....
The problem simply is, My pc isn’t often connected to the internet, (and when it is its 56k) and due to various problems my computer crashes due to power fluctuations (im saving for a UPS, which will never happen - im a student), and id like to know if its possible, immediately after a fresh install to back up the entire new install to a DVD, and then use Knoppix or similar to copy back to the computer, after such an incident, as this would save alot of time and would be usefull in future as an easy way of carrying around a pre-configured system.
any help on the technicalities of this would be appreciated.
thanks

[acasto]

I have a directory named /archive in /, in there I have this script. You can modify the --exclude's to fit your system, but it works. The "-L 696320" flag just breaks the tar down into chunks that fit on CD-Rs. You can probably remove that if you are using a DVD. Also, if you are using a DVD, you may want to insert the -z flag in there to do compression. I left it out for the multi-volumn tar to work. Check out the man page on tar, there is all kind's of usefull things there.

[Coximus]

thanks, thats pretty much what i needed!