Re: Ghost images for gentoo

Spencer, I think this is a great idea. Here are some thoughts off the
top of my head on how to do this:

1. Boot from something other than the internal hard disk (such as
Knoppix via the network--see the wiki for details).
2. Mount the internal drive: mkdir /tmp/internal; mount /dev/hda1
/tmp/internal.
3. Zero out the free space so it compresses better:

        $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/internal/tmp/junk
        $ sync
        $ rm /tmp/internal/tmp/junk

4. Unmount the internal drive: umount /tmp/internal
5. Create the disk image: bzip2 -c /dev/hda > TC1000-Gentoo.img.bz2
6. Create a page on the wiki with the image and instructions for how to
use it.

Don't host the image on your computer; it will be a security hassle for
you and annoying for users that it's not always available. Host it on a
provider such as www.nearlyfreespeech.net, which is dirt cheap, and
create a link to it from the wiki (this is what I've done with my TC1000
files).

Adam

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 21:21, Spencer McGuire wrote:
> I am willing, if i get some help from other members to ghost my hard
> drive and host the image on my computer on request when people want it.
> I still need to configure all the devices, but once i do this, would
> this be a good idea to make the install easier for people new to linux/
> dont want to have to configure everything on the tc1000? i would like
> everybody to respond and let me know if i should do this. I would need
> help on setting up the FTP server on my computer and everything in that
> area. This way we have and actual TC1000 distro, kind of!
> Spencer
Received on Sun Sep 26 06:26:22 2004