Hi, 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
If you're doing multiple installations, you might like to think about using a network to multicast the image with a tool such as http://www.partimage.org/. It works in a very similar way to Norton/Symantec Ghost. > > 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 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > Cheers, Rob. -- Rob Sharp email/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://sharp.id.au pgp: 0E2C C63B BA04 DEB4 7CC0 84FD 17E3 6AA4 87FB 62DF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
