compressed image of a bootable partition

[Tony]

Is there a way to make a compressed image of a bootable partition with
linux? From this compressed image/file I would like to be able to restore
the copied bootable partition.

Something along the lines of what norton ghost does.

TIA

[Scot Mc Pherson]

Well you could clone a drive and make an ISO image...The problem with doing
this is duplicating exact hardware (unless you don't mind tinkering with
drivers and such). Otherwise its probably likely best to just create or copy
an install disk with a "super" RPM type script which installs all the
default software you wish in load on your clone machines in one operation.

I have been working on this as a business solution, packaging a number of
different default systems to provide business solutions to customers. For
example, Office Workstation CD, Development Workstation CD, Web/Ftp server
CD, News/Mail Server CD, Gateway/Proxy/Firewall/Router CD, POS System CD,
Database System CD, Gaming Workstation CD, et cetera, et cetera.

Each CD would be the complete OS, with the packages that I wish to provide
bundled in a RedHat Style installation manager.

Not being a Linux Guru hasn't helped, but I know enough to do the
research....And its been a lot of fun putting this stuff together.

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Scot Mc Pherson
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