Re: Making an image of my setup

[David Lambert <dlambert () demo legallock com>]

I don't know if this is the "best" approach, but I have used the following  
to distribute a pre-configured Linux system.
First make a tarball of your entire system, taking care to be intelligent how 
you handle special directories such as /proc, /mnt/... etc. To restore this 
tarball I used a small diskless Linux system which booted from a single 
floppy. I configured my own just to learn how, but quite a number of 
preconfigured images on the net. Incidently, it is quite surprising how much 
Unix you can fit on a floppy, if you keep away from GUIs! If your tarball is 
small enough to fit on a single CD, then you could put the whole image and 
boot system in one place. If your image spans more than one CD, you can use a 
backup tool such as yacdback which is just a front end for tar, but saves you 
having to think ;-)
I hope this helps.
Dave.

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 08:34 am, Ronneil Camara wrote:
> What would be the best approach for creating an image of my snort box so
> that I can set it up to as many machines that I want without having to
> reinstall the o.s. from scratch?
>
> Unfortunately, Norton Ghost doesn't know anything about freebsd, openbsd
> file systems.
>
> Can unix dump solve my requirement? AFAIK, it does an entire file system
> backup but to restore it, you will have to have a unix installed on the
> machine where you want to restore the dump information.
>
> Correct me please.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Neil
>
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