[Voyage-linux] Copying the whole Installation

[John Coltrane]

Good Morning

On 11/09/2011 07:31 PM, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
> Am Tuesday 08 November 2011 01:46:34 schrieben Sie:
>    
>>   From Rainer Stratmann
>>
>>      
>>> How is it possible to copy the whole installation files after an
>>> installation to a directory on another computer?
>>> Then change files and then copy back to the install medium.
>>>
>>> with
>>> cp -r /mnt/installmedium /home/user/voyagefiles
>>> ?
>>>        
>> cp is not a good way to move the distribution around.
>>      

I prefer tar (preferebly in combination with pv) for doing such things:

cd /source && tar cf - * | pv | tar xf - -C /destination

>    
>> there are many non-file things: symlinks, devices, pipes.
>>      

tar has no probs dealing with symlinks, hardlinks, (named) pipes, 
sockets, device nodes, ownership, permissions, MAC times etc. Have a 
look into tar's manpage.
You can also copy from ext3 to ext4 (without journal on a CF card) or 
other filesystems, and on the fly you get a completely defragmented 
destination.

Cheers


> Also when copying from the usb stick when the usb stick is disconnected from
> the running computer?
> For me it would be an easy way to make one base installation.
> And then make copies of the (modified) base installation to devices with
> different size of partitions.
>
> On my desktop Computer (NOT running with voyage)
> I put the usb stick, mount it to /mnt/stick and copy the wohle files:
> cp -a -r /mnt/stick/ /home/user/voyagebase/
> /home/user/voyagebase   ->  base installation
> /home/user/voyagemodified   ->  modified installation
>
>  From this modified installation I copy with cp -a -r the whole files to the
> running device. And then install grub to/on this device.
>
>
>    
>> I think someone else described it best: unpack the distribution, modify
>> it, then use the install script to "install" it to your target flash card.
>>
>>     - Kevin
>>      
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