mkimage

"mkimage - creating ariane image files

mkimage is your friend for image creation. This script creates a
archive of your current system.
The output file is an imagefile that can be used to replace the plain "stock" ariane image. If you are sure that your system boots, put it on the CD as linux.tgz in the /bootcode directory and boot from the CD (see ArianeDiskCreation).

mkimage excludes certain parts of the running system you don't want to have in the image. Hardcoded exclusion are /proc/*, /tmp/* and /var/tmp/* since the contents of these directories simply interferes with the idea of a fresh installed system. More exclusions can be configured in the file /sbin/ariane.d/etc/image.exclude. This file contains filenames (with or without shell wildcards) that should be excluded from the image, one per line. There are already some exclusion defined because there is more to drop for a clean image than just the directories above."

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