Re: newbie+potato+Classic=? [was CDU561 misadventures]

[Sanjeev Gupta <ghane@dotxtra.com>]

At 11:06 AM 7/25/2000 -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
> One final question.  Is there a way to generate a list of everything I
> decided to install, and then use this to make a CD of just what I want?
> Is this something that apt puts into a log file somewhere, that can be
> parsed or viewed at a later time?  This way I can burn a CDR and wipe my
> CDRWs and use them for the backup purposes they were bought for.  =:)

If your download machine also has debian, your problems are solved!!!

Install apt on the Classic

Install apt-zip on both machines

Use apt-zip on the Classic to create a list of files required by dselect
Use apt-zip on the networked machine to fetch these files.
Copy to CD-R
Back on Classic, copy them into /var/cache/apt/archives (or perhaps mount 
the CD there?),
and dselect again.

Works well (at least did 4 months ago).

HTH

-- Ghane