On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:43:03 +0300 jesse jaara <jesse.jaara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/8/3 Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600@xxxxxxxxx> > > > 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