Possible to create LiveCD from installed system?

[sqlpython]

Here is one from Calculate Linux which you might find interesting and useful.
http://www.calculate-linux.org/main/en/ ... stem_build

I have intended on Using a Calculate Linux install to make LiveCD for over a year now.
Still on my To Do list..

[Nick_Djinn]

I wish I had the skill level to try that first method. It looks like it could work.


Another solution I thought of would be if you could make a tar.gz of your individual apps that require custom settings, like firefox......I mean, is there a reason why you couldnt take a snapshot of your browser with all the addons and settings, then turn it into tarball or binary package? That way its not a snapshot of the whole OS, but just the parts that need customizing individually, and the rest you build normally with molecule.

Im not a power user. Does my theory hold water?

[gluni]

so in other words we are all waiting for someone more qualified to adapt those gentoo scripts to sabayon.

[Nick_Djinn]

so in other words we are all waiting for someone more qualified to adapt those gentoo scripts to sabayon.

+5

And a live system needs compression for the ISO to fit on a DVD. I dont know how to compress an entire partition and still make it mountable with a boot-loader. It seems that only certain things CAN be compressed in a live session, and some intelligent software needs to DE-compress it.


We already have a 'way' of getting this done. What we need is for somebody to package it in a nice GUI for us.

Ill donate money for it. Anyone else willing to chip in $100 to make this a reality? Smaller donations? I need a live session saved, so that settings and docky and news aggregation widgets and firefox addons and settings are all present in a live INSTALLABLE system. It needs to be an install disk creator in addition to a live session.

[gluni]

you might wanne offer the money also to the guy from topas.ch. after all he knows his scipts best.

[gluni]

Actually, a way to use the topasnet.ch scripts with sabayon would be to convert his gentoo system into a sabayon system, by installing entropy from the sabayon overlay and then you can just use sabyon repository to update the system using binaries instead of source.
his scripts should still work.

kernel updates might be tricky, since they rewrite the initramfs and i dont know how compatible the sabayon kernel config is with the one he used.

[necrose]

I have nagged the Gentoo devs for as well as sumitted a sabayon bug ticket for Qt4-Fsarchiver a Front end to fsarchiver , it can clone systems even if you use ext2 to an ext4 drive etc.

however , the one tool equo dosnt have is a txt file dump, of system packages, edit the packages list in molecule give it an iso , and valla out comes a new iso with packages added. , as some of the live DVD's fit my needs for some tasks

however I would simply like to add some packages. other than sabayon forensics the lists you need are on most ftp mirrors.

I am rather eager to meddle with it.

[wolfden]

Package list for forensics?
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr ... so.pkglist

As far as Qt4-Fsarchiver, I spoke with one of the packagers and I don't remember for sure, but there was an issue with it, that is why it's not in entropy and probably why gentoo doesn't have it in portage either. I don't remember what the issue was now.

[albfneto]

making an Live DVD of one installed linux is possible, with commands, makeisofs, etc,,, but difficult.

a simple procedure: With an booted Gparted (as Gparted Live CD or Parted Magic), COPY You Linux Root partition and your Home Partition to another free, unlocated "parts" of you HDD, or to another HDD, pendrives etc,,,

When something wrong occured with your installation, you may "RE-COPY" These partitions, "into, overwriting" the original localizations, the original partitions.

If necessary, correct the Grub lines in order to access.