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#mkstage4
Nash script to create stage 4 tarballs either for the running system, or a system at a specified mount point.
The script is a new edition of the mkstage4 script by Greg Fitzgerald (unmaintained as of 2012) which is itself a revamped edition of the original mkstage4 by Reto Glauser (unmaintaied as of 2009).
More information on this script can be found on the respective Chymeric Tutorials article.
##Usage
Running mksatge4 from its own directory:
cd /your/mkstage4/directory
chmod +x mkstage4.sh
Archive your current system (mounted at /):
./mkstage4.sh -s archive_name
Archive system located at a custom mount point:
./mkstage4.sh -t /custom/mount/point archive_name
Other options:
-q
(quiet) prompts of confirmation.-b
(no-boot) excludes the/boot
(or/cutom/mount/point/boot
).-c
(no-connman) excludes connman saved networks directory.
##Extract Tarball
Tarballs created with mkstage4 can be extracted with:
tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2
##Dependencies:
Please note that these are very basic dependencies and should be already included in any Linux system.
##Meta Released under the GPLv3 license. Project led by Horea Christian (address all correspondence to: h.chr@mail.ru).