After watching this thread for awhile, it finally occured to me that I'm trying to do this same thing with Gnome. Make an install disk using source code all tarred up and scripted. Has anyone else been there, done that?
Justin Bengtson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> -----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? > > >
