How to make own bootable CD?

My Arch with gnome is now very very fine tuned. It works well. Before trying another changes, I want to save my present system as bootable CD or DVD. How can I do it?

Use "Larch"
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Larch

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Message was edited by: V.K.

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     c1t2d1     (Destination Disk)
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     1 var wm 635 - 2014 1.00GB (1380/0/0)
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     3 swap wu 2015 - 2704 512.11MB (690/0/0)
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     4 unassigned wm 2705 - 2718 10.39MB (14/0/0)
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     5 unassigned wm 2719 - 2732 10.39MB (14/0/0)
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filesystem. Here it is how it wors to copy the information from
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     fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.
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source disk. This could be controlled with the command:
     # format
To transfer the information from slice 0 source disk to the slice 0
destination disk the destination disk must be prepared to work on it. It
means at the moment there is no filesystem on this disk. To do this use the
command newfs. No option are neccessary because for default the filesystem
would be ufs. Only the raw device/slice must given to the command that newfs
knows what exactly must be don:
     # newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s0
     newfs: /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s0 last mounted as /
     newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s0: (y/n)? Y
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would be made with the command mount and option -F for filesystem = ufs and
-o for read or write = rw and at least which slice = 0. At the end of the
command is the device with the slice which must be mounted:
     # mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c1t2d1s0 /mnt
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and / = partition the filesystem / would be dumped. The whole dump would be
piped (I hope this is the correct english word) to the command ufsrestore
which would be executed in the mounted directory ufsresore and extracts the
dump.
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     Add links
     Set directory mode, owner, and times.
     set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] y
     Directories already exist, set modes anyway? [yn] y
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     DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
After given the command, the partition / from source disk and / from the
destination disk looks based on files absolutly the same but there is a
information which MUST be changed and it is the information in "/etc/vfstab"
because on the destination disk in this file are the information from the
source disk (it means source disk will be mounted on the device c1t2d0 and
the destination diks on the device c1t2d1). This information must be changed
in "/etc/vfstab" on the destination disk:
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     ---------- /mnt/etc/vfstab ----------
     #device device mount FS fsck
mount mount
     #to mount to fsck point type pass at
boot options
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no
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no
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umount the slice 0:
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Proceed with the other slice similar like explained before. In our example
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     # newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1
     newfs: /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1 last mounted as /var
     newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s1: (y/n)? y
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Slice 4 and 5 are in our example not importante because this slice as
explained are for Disksuite metadb's and on the source disk there are at the
moment no information and no filesystem because Disksuite was not
initialized or configured.
It is a good idea to check the slices which where transfered files before.
This could be done with the command fsck:
     # fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1s0
     # fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1s1
     # fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1s2
     # fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1s4
     # fsck /dev/rdsk/c1t0d1s5
Now it seems that all what done but something is missing!? The destination
disk looks now like the source disk with one exception; there is NO
boot-block on the destination disk. If you don't create a boot-block the
destination disk would never be bootable. To do this the system where it
must be done must be from the same architecture like the source disk it
means if the source disk is based on sun4m and you give now the command from
a architecture like sun4u to the destination disk the boot-block would not
work. This is what by me happens by the test (source disk based system on
sun4m > to install boot-block I tried to give the command from sun4u based
system and after I tried to boot the destination disk > result = destination
disk was not able to boot). Ok we set now the command for boot-block to the
destination disk to create there a boot-block:
     # /usr/sbin/installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
     /dev/rdsk/c1t2d1s0
Now you could boot the destination disk with the correct alias or the
correct device alias. If you don't know what the alias is give on the system
the following command:
     # ls -la /dev/dsk/c1t2d1s0
     /dev/dsk/c1t2d1s0 ->
../../devices/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/SUNW,soc@
1,0/SUNW,pln at a0000000,753a58/ssd at 2,1:a
End the OS with init 6 and stop the system reboot if the banner of OBP
appears with stop + A. After that you are on the ok prompt. To set an alias
give following command:
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