Can we create an installable image from existing ubuntu installation ?

[ved.antani]

I installed ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop and configured a lot(mainly setup git, heroku, rails etc), installed and setup lot of things on it to suit my needs. Now I want to move this setup to another machine and want to avoid all the setup again. Is there a way I can create an installer out of my existing ubuntu installation/partition which I can reuse for other machines?

[oldfred]

Welcome to the forums.

I think what you want are these but I have not used them.

http://clonezilla.org/

http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/


When I want to copy my config from my desktop to my portable I exported a list of installed applications and listed history from command line and copied history into a bash file. I then run my bash file and include the reimport of all installed apps.

from lovinglinux - use dpkg to list installed apps
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7157175&postcount=5
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/restore_packages_using_dselectupgrade/

dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall > ubuntu-files
or
dpkg --get-selections > ubuntu-files

[sikander3786]

The link posted by oldfred is giving 404 error here.

http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html

You can use remastersys to create a custom installation disc until the install size is less than 4GB. Here is another good guide for that.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/remastersys