MrMik on Nostr: I am migrating to #qubes and I want to dump my entire Linux system into a standalone ...
I am migrating to #qubes and I want to dump my entire Linux system into a standalone Qube, but so far failed doing this.
I would appreciate some hints about how this could be done.
The idea is to have the old system accessible from withing the new Qubes system, for occasional use when I find the stuff that's undoubtedly still missing in my Qubes setup.
I have managed to install a different OS into a standalone Qube from a .iso file, just to test/troubleshoot, but have not been able to figure out how to turn my old Linux installation into a .iso file.
#dd lets me write some sort of image of the entire old drive (using of=/dev/sdb/nameofoldinstallation.iso) , but it seems that dd maybe only calls it an ISO file. I don't know.
When I try to "Boot qube from CD-ROM" , it results in some error message that it cannot read the .iso file that I made using dd.
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I would appreciate some hints about how this could be done.
The idea is to have the old system accessible from withing the new Qubes system, for occasional use when I find the stuff that's undoubtedly still missing in my Qubes setup.
I have managed to install a different OS into a standalone Qube from a .iso file, just to test/troubleshoot, but have not been able to figure out how to turn my old Linux installation into a .iso file.
#dd lets me write some sort of image of the entire old drive (using of=/dev/sdb/nameofoldinstallation.iso) , but it seems that dd maybe only calls it an ISO file. I don't know.
When I try to "Boot qube from CD-ROM" , it results in some error message that it cannot read the .iso file that I made using dd.
#asknostr