Mike Kenny wrote:
I now have my stage 3 installed an working. Am in the process of
downloading all the requirements for openXchange (Man! I love emerge)
But, many (most) users will not want to go to the trouble that I have.
In fact, in South Africa most won't have access to the bandwidth to do
this. I am looking for a link to a tutorial or howto that will inform me
how to:
1. After I have a basic bootable system created, create a backup CD from
which I can boot and re-install in the event of a catastrophe
Use tar or some other archive utility (possibly mksquashfs) to make a complete backup of
the root filesystem (use "mount" with no arguments to see mount points that
should be excluded).
2. After I have configured servers (Apache or JBoss or openXchange,
etc.) create a DVD or set of CDs which can be booted and installed from
without all the re-configuration
The easiest way to make a customized bootable cd/dvd is to remaster an existing
one. The mkisofs manpage documents the creation of a bootable iso image. You
will also want to consult the eltorito documentation for isolinux or grub
depending on which boot loader you choose.
Zac
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