Backup/restore of customized 3b2/600 root partition

[Kim Chr. Madsen]

Hello out there,

I have a problems installing a customized root-partition on a AT&T
3b2/600 in an easy way.

What I want to do is to take a backup of the root partition
after installing all essential software packages plus additional local
packages, then take the tape to a clean or crashed machine, put in
the tape into the streamer and make a similar configuration on this
machine, without having to go through the installation and
configuration of all the packages.

I think it must be possible by making a filesystem on the tape, a
bootable root partition, and a backup partition for the customized
root-partition, and having some shell scripts to handle the Harddisk
format, partitioning and mkfs's.

Does anybody have information about:

	1) The layout of the AT&T supplied installation tape.
	2) How to solve the problem of installing a customized
	   root-partition.  (Sources to implement such a solution will
	   be greatly appreciated).


					Best Regards
					Kim Chr. Madsen.