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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
