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evi|one

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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,14:08

I backed up on a floppy, then took backup.tar.gz, renamed it to backup.dsl and burned in in the root of the CD. It works like a charm. Walking around with a the live cd AND a floppy seemed a bit stupid, especially when the floppy is actually bigger than the mini-CD i used

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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,15:31

This has been discussed before. You can and should factor out of your backup, the files that do not change and represent your specific configuration for your system. Then you can easily name it some like myconf.tar.gz and then add it to the cdrom or other myDSL areas. Then upon boot up you have your "custom" system.

But to rename backup.tar.gz to backup.dsl causes overhead on the system by requiring mkwriteable when really not needed. Also not practical, for bookmarks, email, and other items that frequently change.

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