> -----Original Message----- > From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EUG-LUG:508] Re: naive distro questions
<snippety> > one can always add cruft later ;) Or, one could just tar up > a whole customized system, with whatever additions and deletions > suit one's fancy and call it site30.tgz (assuming kernel version 3.0) > and the install script on the OpenBSD install disk will install > (simply untar) that instead. You can also add an executable called > "install.site" in / of the site30 tarball which will be run after > the standard install script - system clonig the easy way. is there a way to do this with linux? i was thinking that once i get LFS up and running, i can just tar the whole damn thing up and send it to a cd. then i just need a boot disk able to run tar. when and if my system gets too loaded with crap, i can just wipe and un-tar the site file. this may get more complicated than i thought, but it sounds really nice. maybe program a small perl installer for it... is there anything else involved besides the tarball, tar, tools to create partitions and file systems and a boot disk? -- Justin Bengtson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) euglug= v+ e- eug++ bsd? gnu++ s++ "I called some kid "b" the other day. It's the price you pay for living hip-hop every day of your life." - Jerry (from the Point Blank Rangers)
