Create iso from existing installation?

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Create iso from existing installation?

Post#1 by Standard User » 19 Apr 2014, 17:27

Hello,
I would like to move my existing Porteus installation to VirtualBox(including all custom settings, modules and files) to do some experimenting. Is there a method how to create an iso from existing installation?

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Re: Create iso from existing installation?

Post#2 by Standard User » 19 Apr 2014, 19:08

Sorry for posting too quickly, found a related question in FAQ.

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Re: Create iso from existing installation?

Post#3 by brokenman » 19 Apr 2014, 20:12

I will post the solution so people searching the forum don't find this thread totally useless.

In the porteus folder there is a script called make_iso.sh
From a root console, cd into this directory and call the script giving the target location as an argument like so:

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cd /mnt/sdxY/porteus
./make_iso.sh /tmp/mynewporteus.iso
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Re: Create iso from existing installation?

Post#4 by Standard User » 19 Apr 2014, 20:50

Thanks. This is really amazing feature of Porteus.

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