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Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ???

From "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ???
Date 2022-08-15 00:08 -0400
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On 8/14/22 1:42 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 8/14/22 09:40, Kirk_Rockstein wrote:
>> On 2022-08-14, 25B.Z969 <25B.Z969@noda.net> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>     Anyway, my immediate focus is on moving the VM into the
>>>     real world. Various ways have been suggested - on checking
>>>     some 'fixes' seem to spend a LOT of time explaining why
>>>     they won't work very well. Discouraging. I just want to
>>>     kinda make a 'dd' image, then move it to an actual drive
>>>     partition. The tricky bit is that you have to make the
>>>     image of a running system from the running system. It
>>>     should mostly work, mostly ...
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> If this is just your user systems you are speaking of why not do 
>> something
>> like this from your live environment. Modify the options as needed.
>> Example:
>> rsync -av --delete / /mnt/your-formated-partition-on-HDD 
>> --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found","/home/youruser/.gvfs","/var/lib/ntp/proc/*"} 
>>
> 
> 
>      The packager of PCLinuxOS 64 creates each distribution in a virtual 
> machine then when satisfied he converts it to an iso file and
> sends it to Repositories.  I believe he has scripts to help him with
> these matters and if you go to PCLinuxOS Forum and register then you
> could do a search on the matter or even ask Texstar about his
> procedure.  He got a high powered Ryzen computer to use for this
> purpose.

   I know you like PCLinuxOS ... but none of the VMs I want to bring
   to the Real World are PCLinuxOS. Indeed one is FreeBSD .....

   MX has a similar "existing-distro to ISO" utility.

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Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-12 00:59 -0400
  Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-08-12 00:15 -0500
    Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-13 00:48 -0400
      Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-08-13 01:14 -0500
        Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-14 03:08 -0400
          Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-08-14 03:04 -0500
            Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real? World ??? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2022-08-14 12:55 +0000
              Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real? World ??? "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-14 23:58 -0400
            Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-14 23:44 -0400
          Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? Kirk_Rockstein <Kirk_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2022-08-14 16:40 +0000
            Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-08-14 10:42 -0700
              Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-15 00:08 -0400
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    Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? "25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net> - 2022-08-13 01:04 -0400
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    Re: Moving Linux Installation OFF Virtual Machine and Into Real World ??? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2022-08-12 13:01 +0000
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