Freeze SO Linux, it's possible?

Loïc Grenié loic.grenie at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 13:39:46 UTC 2008


2008/12/11 Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>:
> Loïc Grenié wrote:
>>> Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
>>> As a side note, no, I've never found similar-type software
>>> for Linux to "Freeze" it despite looking around.
>>
>>     The Ubuntu live-CD is doing exactly what you are looking
>>   for (I think). It's not very difficult to change the "stable"
>>   filesystem (look for "personalizing live cd") to exactly fit
>>   your situation.
>
> Unless you want to update the system or install more software easily
> without burning another CD or DVD :-)

      You do not need to. You can store your system on a rewritable medium:
  I use an USB key, but a hard disk would work as well (and faster).

   You can even choose to not do the "squashfs" part, but you will probably
  need to modify the initial ramdisk a little.

        Loïc




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