Hi,

another question that comes into my mind is...

Once I have my LFS system installed... what if.. I want to make a CD or in my case a DVD just to be able to put it on the DVD drive and being able to perform a FULL-RESTORE of my system?

I mean... restore my partition information, copy all my installed software, from Linux to XFree passing through GNOME, all my installed packages like X-Chat, Firefox, Evolution, and so on?

Is there any way to perform this? to be able to make this 'kind' of CD/DVD able to regenerate in a complete way all my system data? I ask this because I've just read several posts down a thread called 'Lfs live cd' but I'm not interested in making a LiveCD in the 'usual' way of having the system running from the CD/DVD, just an installation CD or backup CD/DVD... you name it...

Any help would be appreciated and, as always, Thanks in advance for any answer...


Julio

What I do is reboot into the host system and make a tarball of the lfs partition (currently it weighs in at 480Mb) and then burn that to CD.

su
password
cd /mnt
tar cjf lfs.tar.bz2 lfs

To untar it, first reformat the lfs partition then remount it on /mnt/lfs then

su
password
cd /mnt
tar xjfp lfs.tar.bz2

Of course, this means that to untar it you need to install a version of linux to untar it with, but you don't have to live with it. You can delete it when you've reinstalled LFS.

Not necessarily! You could use a rescue floppy like Tom's root/boot to mount the CD, copy and extract your lfs tarball. Then you just chroot and run lilo, eject the floppy and reboot into LFS.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere