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Re: Propagating Debian on a LAN



* Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com) [020722 21:47]:
> The process of installing Debian is agonizingly show the way I do it. I
> use dselect and hand pick every package. That's fine for a single
> machine. But I need a way to do that on one machine, and then propagate
> that setup quickly to other machines on the network (consider them fresh
> installs). I don't have a CD burner, so skip that. I considered rsync,
> but I don't know if it would work for this.

dpkg --get-selections | ssh otherhost dpkg --set-selections
ssh otherhost -t dselect install

good times,
Vineet
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