Re: 30-minutes with scripts [was Re: Fixing boot problems with grub]

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:24:18 -0600

William Ballard wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
>>>For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts.
>>>But I looked like a tool having to do that.
>>
>>What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean?
>
>
> I talked about this a year ago. Several people told me with chroot and
> partimage, I could restore a clean OS image in a couple minutes, which
> is basically what I do with XP, but I keep a partial mirror of the sid
> debs I use and point apt to that. My "30 minutes" is:
>
> (1) Install Sarge, wipe the disk, use one giant partition for
> everything. (10 minutes?)
> (2) Install nothing during Sarge.
> (3) Mount my apt repository, point apt to it.
> (4) aptitude install everything in that repository. (20 minutes?)
> (5) Reboot.
> (6) Manually run a script which does everything else I need to do to the
> system.
> (7) Log in as non-user, run a script which sets up the profile.
>
> Probably takes closer to 40 minutes, but I do this process every couple
> months. I treat home as transient; I treat the whole system as
> transient.
>
> I know you all probably find this process shlocky but it works for me,
> because apt is so nice. With XP I use partimage.
>
>

Interesting. I have a similar script. The ultimate reason is to get a
"clean install", meaning, you get everything that you need and nothing more.

I do it with a script that only presumes an existing Sarge.

To finetune it I need the Sarge iso's because otherwise it takes too
long to install everything and I am on a dialup line, with no DSL or
cable in sight.

This is the reason I am about to purchase the 14 Sarge CD's: it is too
hard chasing the jigdo-lite templates: too much. Now I have a broken
package problem with only 6.

And indeed it takes about 40 minutes, may be less, I need to compile the
kernel for the Ruby multi-seat Linux patch. Then there are some programs
for which there are no Debian packages.

This project has an additional benefit: you find out what exactly you
are dependent upon in terms of data resources, in case of disk failure,
which happened a while ago.

H.

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