Hi, AFAIK I think you can tar the "/" and bzip it. When you want to use it, the only thing you have to do apart from untarring would be to run grub-install.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. On 11/14/05, IraqiGeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Finally finished building LFS, and its booting fine. Now I want to make an > image file of the LFS system. The system was built on a vmware machine with > a virtual drive 4GB in size (3.7GB of which are for the root filesystem, and > 300MB for swap space), and df reports that I am using 437MB of space (isnt > that a bit high considering that /tools was deleted along with the sources > directory). Anyway, if I use dd to make an image of the build into a file on > a second virtual hard disk, I get a 3.7GB image file. > > How can I build an image file that has the same size of the LFS build files? > > Thanks, > IraqiGeek > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- ╔════════════════════════════╗ ║I don't know how much of what I say is true ║ ╚════════════════════════════╝
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