Create ISO image of your installed system

[MkIII_Supra]

Hello again! This is a question about can a person make a bootable ISO image of their existing installation, configuration and all installed applications, for recovery purposes. AND not only do it but is there a point and click method to it?

I am sure it can be done but CLI, but I am curious if there is a GUI method of doing this. The idea is to allow a user to re-build from bare metal his / her full system only the recovery disk. AND to have that disk created every week on a CD-RW.

I hope that is clear enough.

[Parcival]

From the top of my head, I read a howto somewhere that has you use the dd command first to make a copy of your system and then forward everything into makeisofs to create a burnable iso file. However, that's all commandline work, so probably not what you're looking for.

[saikee]

It is the the command called mkisofs.

If you need an example take a look at Chapter 3.4 of Grub Manual. I did it for a bootable Grub CD but the idea is just the same and the filing system is larger in your case.

Many distros are now using Grub to boot from a CD and that would be the route you are going down to.

Traditionally CDs are booted by isolinux. Grub can be used too because it has stage2_eltorito that does something similar.

Basically you use mkisofs to pack the root directory into an iso file and use stage2_eltorito as the boot loader to boot from a CD. At the end of the day you get a self-sufficient iso image out for burning into a bootable CD.

[happybunny]

bootcd(write)

oh...gui method?

There is an curses based one that escapes my mind....ill search around

does this count as gui? http://www.mondorescue.org/