[CentOS-devel] Off - Convert centos instaled to iso or .tar

Thu Feb 5 23:02:49 UTC 2015
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Marcos Carraro
<marcos.g.carraro at gmail.com> wrote:
> The scenario:
>   - Centos 6.5 perfectly running as a network gateway.
>
> doubt
> Is there any way that I can create some Linux iso installed for later
> installations?
>
> Or create some of the tar / and then transfer it to disk "Create partition,
> create mbr, create grub, restore files"?

The 'rear' package from EPEL does exactly that.  It will make a
bootable iso/usb image with a script and the necessary tools to
recreate your partitions/filesystems, restore a backup to it, and make
it bootable.   There are some options for the details of how the
backup/restore are done.  I've only used tar to an nfs export and
rsync over ssh, but it might work directly to usb too.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com