[PLUG] Linux Mint System Restore question

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 05:17:29 UTC 2019


FOUND IT. I replied too soon.

Remastersys is what you would have wanted in the past, but it has been
discontinued/abandoned/<IDontWantToInvestigateFurther>

It does however give you a place to start looking. If you want to wrap up
your current installation as an installable ISO (retaining personal files/,
configuration, and font caches that take forever to install) then you want
to look for whatever has become the replacement for Remastersys. Maybe some
Ubuntu/Mint users would be kind enough to offer some assistance in area,
since apparently a lot has changed since 2014....

The concept is pretty straightforward and this is a problem that was
brought up (and solved) many years ago.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 10:06 PM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 9:34 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh damn, I think I just rekindled the war between the 'fresh install'
>> people and the 'just keep upgrading' folks.
>>
>
> There are pros and cons to everything, and slow package installation is a
> tradeoff all debian-based distros accept.
>
> As for the actual question, there is a way to create a "backup image". It
> doesn't function in the way that was originally stated but it is something
> that is possible on ubuntu systems. When I remember the name of the program
> that does this, I'll post here. It's been a long time since I touched
> apt/dpkg package management, so it might take a while before the name comes
> back to me.
>
> The program I used would be installed (and run) from an actively used
> ubuntu install. It would create a list of all installed packages, and wrap
> up your home directory as a custom ubuntu install. This allows you to go
> through the normal installation steps for ubuntu, but the resulting OS is
> neither a fresh install or a rolling installation.
>
> If someone else remembers the name of the program that wraps up a running
> Ubuntu install into a "custom iso" feel free to remind me. I think it
> starts with an R, but for some reason unetbootin keeps popping into my head
> which is something else...
>



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