CentOS - Feb 2019 - looking for a tool to convert my running system into a installation dvd

Hallo,
I m looking for a tool to convert my running system into a installation dvd.
Thanks for hint.
I found some tools working more or less for debian.

Thank for hints
Ralf

Von meinem iPad gesendet

On 2/4/19 8:44 AM, Ralf Prengel wrote:
> I m looking for a tool to convert my running system into a installation
dvd.

"Installing" a copy of a running system on another computer is more
like
a backup and restore than it is like an installation, so you're probably 
best off looking in the backup category of tools.

I would recommend clonezilla.? Boot the clonezilla distro, and capture 
an image of your system onto whatever media you want to use.? You might 
image it on to a removable hard drive and later write those files to a 
DVD.? Later you can boot the clonezilla distro again and restore the 
image that you captured in order to "install" the system.

> On Feb 4, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at
gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I would recommend clonezilla.  Boot the clonezilla distro, and capture an
image of your system onto whatever media you want to use.  You might image it on
to a removable hard drive and later write those files to a DVD.  Later you can
boot the clonezilla distro again and restore the image that you captured in
order to "install" the system.
> 
REAR (relax and recover) is another option, if you want a backup you can
re-install from, as opposed to an actual cloned live image.

Hi,

probably you are looking for Anacondas kickstart feature.
A kickstart installation can be used to install all your packages and
provide basic system configuration. It is possible, but not meant to be
used as, to even configure the system as you have it currently running
using post-install scripts. [1] seems to be a quite good resource to
get started with kickstart installations.

This is meant to be used if you plan a roll-out on multiple (many)
machines where an manual installation is not applicable (in this case
some kind of configuration management should be used to keep track of
the configurations deployed).
If you just want a single (or just some few) system(s) as hole clone of
your system (including full configuration), backup and restore seems
better.

best regards
Markus Lange

[1] https://people.centos.org/jperrin/Kickstart2.html

On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 17:44 +0100, Ralf Prengel wrote:
> Hallo,
> I m looking for a tool to convert my running system into a
> installation dvd.
> Thanks for hint.
> I found some tools working more or less for debian.
> 
> Thank for hints
> Ralf
> 
> Von meinem iPad gesendet
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