Quick 5 step guide to ultimate offline computer restoration

- By Ryan Grieve

“Your quick and easy 5 step guide to ultimate offline computer restoration.

• Step 1.
  Download and burn your favourite flavour of Ubuntu direct from the interwob.
• Step 2.
  Stick the freshly toasted Internet Freedom Disc into the drive on the front of your Compubox
• Step 3.
  Boot up the magical disc and install your own piece of Open Source Heaven.
• Step 4.
  Now, using your favourite package manager, download and install EVERY one of your favourite little open source gems. (especially AptOnCD)
• Step 5.
  Run AptOnCD and create your very own CD repository of all the packages you have downloaded…. everything you need to get your computer back to this ideal state without a net connection!!

Now, you can take both your beautiful Ubuntu Disk and that Shiny New AptOnCD Disk and store them away somewhere safe. Sleep easy tonight knowing that even without the big-bad interweave, you can still make your computer….. dance!”

I came across this blog post early today, and indeed this is a very simple, easy and quick example of using aptoncd to keep your installed packages safe. I’d shrink this to 3 steps cutting 2 unessential, but this post is not mine and I’m thankful for the author