Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

2019-10-15 Thread Ben Koenig
FOUND IT. I replied too soon. Remastersys is what you would have wanted in the past, but it has been discontinued/abandoned/ It does however give you a place to start looking. If you want to wrap up your current installation as an installable ISO (retaining personal files/, configuration, and

Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

2019-10-15 Thread Ben Koenig
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:34 PM John Jason Jordan 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.

Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

2019-10-15 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:30:43 -0400 tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com dijo: >It takes about half an hour to install Linux + all the apps + update - >maybe hour if you are taking notes. LOL. Last time I did a clean install it took the better part of a day before the system was basically usable for the

Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

2019-10-15 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
As far as I can tell - Windows restore produces blank/new/clean installation. The reason for that - there really is not any installation media other than to create it by this process. On the other hand - you can just download any Linux installation media and typically there is no need to activate

[PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

2019-10-15 Thread OR Linux Jobs
Hi Portland I'm not in immediate need of an answer to this question. I'm only researching this for future possible needs. Usually, Windows PC's offer a way to create system restore DVD discs. These are created by a utility that comes with the PC, and the first disc is bootable, with a utility to