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Date: Mon Aug 04 03:30:19 PDT 2008
From: darren naidoo <dnaidoo.za@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re:how to make a boot disk and ...
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...Which important directories to tar/gzip. Want to make a custom system image on dvd for me. Thanks

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On 08/06/2008 02:46 AM, darren naidoo wrote:

Date: Mon Aug 04 03:30:19 PDT 2008
From: darren naidoo <dnaidoo.za@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re:how to make a boot disk and ...
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...Which important directories to tar/gzip. Want to make a custom system image on dvd for me. Thanks



/home
/etc (don't restore all parts)

If you use aptitude, you might want to save a list of packages that
you've installed that weren't automatically installed:


aptitude search '~i!~M' -F '%p' | tee installed.list


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On Wed,06.Aug.08, 00:46:18, darren naidoo wrote:

> ...Which important directories to tar/gzip. Want to make a custom system image on dvd for me. Thanks

Your question is not very clear [1], but I think you need Debian Live
[2].

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
[2] http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/

Regards,
Andrei
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