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. -- Regards, Mick
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