Is it possible to save current configuration?

[stan_the_fisher]

I just got my system installed and configured how I want it to be. I was wondering if it was possible to save the settings that I have now to a file so that gentoo installs them automaticly the next time.
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Gentoo 2.6.16.19
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Windows XP x64
AMD 4200+ X2, 1gb ddr2 , geforce 7900 sli , 200 gb seagate barracuda
Plexor PX-716AM, Audigy 2 ZS

[halfgaar]

There's nothing automatic for this. It would be kind of difficult, since the installation will not be exactly the same when you reinstall it, especially when you reinstall somewhere a few months down the road.

As a start, you could backup your /etc dir regularly. That will help, at least a bit. What you could also do, is make regular backups of your entire system, so that you don't have to reinstall, when your hard disc dies for example. This is my preferred method, as I have made so many custom configurations, I would hate to lose it all. Installing an operating system, and starting with a blank system, is something I really hate.
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Linux backups the right way.
Get surround sound working.

[Naib]

you could look into a stage4

I recently had to re-install and the things I backed up were

1) all of /etc
2) all of /home
3) grub.conf
4) world file

with /home being untared and chown and the world file dropped into the right player (so an emerge -e world makes sense to pull in what I want) it left grub.conf (used mainly as a working template) and /etc

rather then dumping my backed up /etc into the working /etc I copied out the main files needed. There is only about a dozen or so file that really need to be backed up from /etc (Xorg.conf, fstab, conf.d/ ...)
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