Making an ISO archive, of a Linux system partition

BudiKusasi · 04-28-2023, 06:24 PM

How's complete CLI steps in making an ISO archive, of a Linux system partition in any way (online or offline, etc), after which is used to make a bootable USB running the system live, and on Linuxes generally how is the working mechanism and rules/caveats of that process and accomplishment

teckk · 04-28-2023, 09:29 PM

You can make an .iso of a partition easy enough.

Code:

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=myfile.iso bs=1M

For a usb drive look at mksquashfs, stand alone grub, or --removable

https://www.tecmint.com/linux-bootable-usb-creators/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html