Creating an ISO of my completed Gentoo System??????

Cyris · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 68 Location: Texas

What I want to do is backup my entire system to a directory on my hard drive and create an ISO of it so I can burn it to a CD. That way I can just pop in the CD and install everything from that CD to another i686 system without having and internet connection configured.

Basically what you would do when installing RedHat.

I am sure that this has been brought up before, but I can't find it with "Search" or at least anything with an answer.

delta407 · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 10:35 pm Post subject:

Well, you could have used the -b switch when emerging so you could just emerge a binary package, but now that you've already compiled everything...

http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/

I'm sure there are open-source solutions as well, but I haven't looked into them.

Cyris · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 68 Location: Texas

I found this from Google

http://systemimager.sourceforge.net/

masseya · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 8:38 am Post subject:

Norton's Ghost 2002 is a very popular tool that does this. I think it's a little windows biased, but I believe it works for everything. I've used it in several work environments on many different machines and it's a very good tool. The only problem is that windows bias. You would probably have to have a windows partition or something to install it on. Once you have it set up though you can make backups of any disk and partition that can be re-installed with very little effort. I wouldn't mention it here if I hadn't had so much personal success with it. I normally can't stand windows only products.
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citizen428 · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 9:18 am Post subject:

There's also Partition Image for Linux:

http://www.partimage.org/

klieber · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 11:32 am Post subject:

You might also check out Mondo which is a backup tool used for bare metal recovery. Backs everything up to CD and restores it just like the original. Not quite as intrusive as a full-fledged imaging program and offers you a bit more flexibility as well. (restore to alternate file systems, different partition tables, etc.)

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DArtagnan · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 12:00 pm Post subject:

citizen428 · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 1:45 pm Post subject:

DArtagnan · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 1:47 pm Post subject:

Read the FAQ from their site, this app si very fatures-less...
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klieber · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 3:06 pm Post subject:

DArtagnan · Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 3:07 pm Post subject:

http://www.partimage.org/

Just read the FAQ and you will see...is good for a static partition...
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jadenjahner · n00b Joined: 04 May 2002 Posts: 28

Depending on your partition sizes, you can use BootIT NG. It will image the partition to CD. I use it on one machine.
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maystorm · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 2:02 pm Post subject: