Re: Preparations for installing a Farm
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:06:23PM -0000, martin f krafft wrote:
> just add the UK mirror next to yours. then the internet will only be
> used for the potato files. or use a potato CDROM in apt's sources.list
> for potato only.
OK, I'll give it a go. Would that be a entry for the testing or stable part
of the UK mirror?
> > The problem is that when I use "dpkg --set-selections < [file]" it
> > appears to add the extra packages I've chosen, but not remove packages
> > I've gotten rid of of the first machine. Does anybody know of a method to
> > get a package selection list from machine A to machine B, so machine B
> > ends up with exactly the same packages installed regardless of what was
> > there before?
>
> do you purge or delete packages?
I tend to purge, trying to keep the system as clean as possible.
>
> > Also, any other pointers that people may have if you've ever attempted this
> > before. Thanks
>
> do you have identical hdd's (size) and mostly identical hardware
> configurations? then imaging would be the best...
At the moment we've only built the first machine, the others will follow if
this is a success. All will try to be as similar as possible, but becuase
there's going to be a time delay in buying bits, I'll bet things will be
slightly different.
Paul
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