Re: Near clones of a Debian install
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have a laptop set aside for experimenting with Debian installs.
> I've not yet defined my personal "optimal" install.
> My nominally base install will be a reasonably standard CLI plus a
> personally preferred default set of utilities.
>
> That base install *SHALL BE* on a read-only partition (e.g. sda5).
> I wish to "almost clone" it to sda5, (e.g. sda6, sda7, sda8).
> The above "almost" refers to whatever is required to run Debian as installed
> to that *explicit* partition.
> I will make various install/configuration choices to the "almost cloned"
> partitions.
> My then current "optimal" install will then be placed on either sda5 or sda
> 6 as I consider appropriate.
>
> Does that make sense?
I can think of two ways of doing this. One involves VMs, which
you said you don't like.
The other involves ZFS.
Install ZFS-on-Linux, use it as your root. Snapshot the root.
Clone it X times. Change the clones.
-dsr-
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