I need to make an install iso of the OS the way it is after I'velaboured for several hours to customized it...

[Don Quixote de la Mancha]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:23 AM, davem at mich.com <davem at mich.com> wrote:
> Also, if your install is small enough, you can use
> the 'dd' command to backup/restore a disk image of
> the whole partition to a flash drive. This is what I
> typically do these days.

A better way to image a disk with Free Software is to use partimage.
I believe it is on the Parted Magic CD.  I don't think it copies free
space to the image, so your backup is smaller.

It handles a bunch of different filesystems; I once used it to migrate
a Windows 2003 Server RAID.

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