Re: [PLUG] custom distro? was ibuild

["Isaac Bennetch" <bennetch@gmail.com>]

Hello Michael,

On 5/3/06, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking to make a CD that
> can allow someone to get an identical debian install with the same kernel
> patches on each machine.

Perhaps simply using dd or g4u (Ghost for Linux, similar to Norton's
Ghost product) to mirror the drive would be a better solution; you can
simply `dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/otherDrive/diskDump` (provided that
/mnt/otherDrive isn't on /hda1); you can add that file to a bootable
CD with a few lines of shell script to dd the file out to the new
machine and run LILO to make the disk bootable.

As I recall, dd doesn't care about matching partition sizes provided
it's working with partitions rather than the whole disk (the key there
being if=/dev/hda1 rather than /dev/hda). At least, that's what
someone told me once.
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