On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:43:03 +0300 jesse jaara <jesse.jaara@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/8/3 Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600@gmail.com>
Hi,
is possible to image my current Arch system into a USB pendrive and use it from there? Many thanks!
Martín
It is possible you will have to reformat your pendrive to use filesystem other than fat, using the journaling filesystems will wearout the pen drive fast so ext2 or pisssibly ?nilfs2? are the ones to go whit. Also you shouldn't use any swap in usb sticks as it will also wear it out , I assume that you alredy know that ubs sticks are much slower than hds. But here is what have to do:
1. sudo mkfs -t ext2_or_some_other_fs /dev/sdx1 2. sudo mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt 3. sudo cp -a /{bin,boot.etc.home,lib,media,opt,root,sbin,srv,usr,var} /mnt/ 4. edit the /mnt/etc/fstab and /mnt/grub/menu.lst to use the new root partion /dev/sdx1 you SHOULD use uuids instead of the devise names 5. sudo grub-install /dev/sdx 6. sudo mkdir /mnt/{dev,sys,proc} 7. sudo mknod -m600 /mnt/dev/console c 5 1 sudo mknod -m644 /mnt/dev/null c 1 3 sudo mknod -m644 /mnt/dev/zero c 1 5
and now you should be redy to boot off
check out http://larch.berlios.de/, I think that tool is written for just this use case. Dieter