3.4. Getting the Image Together

Now that your image is all set and populated with all the files your base installation requires there are just two things that are left to do:

• Make all the files of your image owned by root:

  # cd ${IMAGE} # chown -R root.root .

• Package the whole image up into a tarball:

  # cd ${IMAGE} # tar -c . > ../kuroimg.tar

If the KuroBox and your machine are far apart and separated by a very slow network you can additionally gzip the resulting tar file to help reduce the transfer time. But if the network between your machine and the KuroBox is fast this just wastes more time for no benefit.