On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:34 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh damn, I think I just rekindled the war between the 'fresh install' > people and the 'just keep upgrading' folks. > There are pros and cons to everything, and slow package installation is a tradeoff all debian-based distros accept. As for the actual question, there is a way to create a "backup image". It doesn't function in the way that was originally stated but it is something that is possible on ubuntu systems. When I remember the name of the program that does this, I'll post here. It's been a long time since I touched apt/dpkg package management, so it might take a while before the name comes back to me. The program I used would be installed (and run) from an actively used ubuntu install. It would create a list of all installed packages, and wrap up your home directory as a custom ubuntu install. This allows you to go through the normal installation steps for ubuntu, but the resulting OS is neither a fresh install or a rolling installation. If someone else remembers the name of the program that wraps up a running Ubuntu install into a "custom iso" feel free to remind me. I think it starts with an R, but for some reason unetbootin keeps popping into my head which is something else... _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
