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sagui

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Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 9

Making a installation/backup CD

So I finally have my installation exactly how I like it, but of course the urge to experiment is still huge.

Now I kinda want to "save" as in: if I screw up the system I don't want to start all over again.  The best way I can imagine is to make a live CD of my current system (which is on a dedicated partition) and then keep it safe.  If I then screw up my system I can just pop in the CD, install the system and be back where I was.

How does one do this in Arch?  I searched the topic and I read several threads in this bbs, but they mostly ended in orphaned webpages and custom kernels.  Any way to do this easily without having to recompile the kernel?

Thanks for your help.

Sagui

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: Making a installation/backup CD

As long as your system is not over a few (4, 5?) GBs, larch-5 and larchify could be what you're looking for. More on this topic here and in my sig.

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Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch.

sagui

Member

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 9

Re: Making a installation/backup CD

This was exactly what i was looking for, thanks so much!

Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: Making a installation/backup CD

Have fun then, I'm glad I could help you.

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Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch.