As per murphy law, the solution came up soon as I sent the email. "dd" copies everything including MBR and partition scheme. That's good enough for me. Still, if anyone is willing to share any other methods, let the thread go on.
On 7/25/05, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm willing to create a single image which I can use to make multiple > installations of my current GNU/Linux operating system. So that's why > plan to do: > > # bzip2 -lc < /dev/hda > mysys.bz2 > > So I should be getting the entire content of the disk (which will be > partitionless, and I'll use a file as swap if needed) into mysys.bz2. > > I'm then wondering a way to do the same with the disk MBR. I don't > want to have to go through a live cd and install Lilo for every > "instance" I spawn. Any ideas on how to do it? > > > -- > Julio C. Ody > http://rootshell.be/~julioody > -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
