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#1 2008-03-31 16:51:02
- Barrucadu
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Creating a bootable disk
Ah, my second question here, I'll have to start answering them soon!
Well, I was wondering how I would go about copying my Arch installation to a disk. Arch is installed on /dev/sdb2. I do not have a seperate swap, boot, or home partition. Would I be right in thinking that it is a little more complex than just "dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=arch.iso"?
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#2 2008-03-31 17:32:01
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Re: Creating a bootable disk
I think this will not create a bootable disk, the bootloader will not be present in ISO.
Also if you burn this iso on a CD im not sure whether it will work or not, CDs have a different file system .
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#3 2008-03-31 19:06:46
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Re: Creating a bootable disk
As an addition to what srimalik said: If you try to create a liveCD out of your running system, try out larch-5. See the link in my sig.
If not, please explain what you try to achieve a little more detailed...
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#4 2008-03-31 19:12:40
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Re: Creating a bootable disk
Correct me if I'm wrong, but ISO is its own type of file system and can't be created just by doing a raw copy from a different file system.
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#5 2008-03-31 20:11:36
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Re: Creating a bootable disk
Correct me if I'm wrong, but ISO is its own type of file system and can't be created just by doing a raw copy from a different file system.
Not to mention the compression issue.
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#6 2008-03-31 20:48:07
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Re: Creating a bootable disk
As an addition to what srimalik said: If you try to create a liveCD out of your running system, try out larch-5. See the link in my sig.
If not, please explain what you try to achieve a little more detailed...
That's exactly what I'm trying to do. I shall look at larch.
I knew that dd wouldn't do it, but I at least wanted to give the impression of knowing a little about what I'm doing 
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#7 2008-03-31 23:04:26
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Re: Creating a bootable disk
Try FaunOS also since it gives you over 600 packages at install time and you can whittle it or no at your discretion.
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