Re: what files does dselect/dpkg use to discern choices?
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, David C Winters wrote:
>
> Now, to explain the question, since I can't understand the
> Subject: line and I wrote it myself...
>
> I've got approximately 50 machines I need to build. My best
> option for the initial system build, unless I've missed something, would
> be to run deselect on one machine, then take a deselect-generated file
> containing my selections and exporting that file to all the other
> machines, so I can just start up dselect and choose "Install" without
> having to go through "Select" on each.
> How can I accomplish this? Which file(s) do I need to export in
> order to make this happen? And, is there a better way to achieve the
> same results?
>
> Now, a meta-issue. I've been extremely pleased with the Debian
> distribution, as well as the support I've received from this list.
> Thanks, all!
>
>
> David winters+@pitt.edu aka winters+@cs.cmu.edu
> Office: 3503 WeH, x86720
Let me suggest (in addition to my last suggestion) the use of
"afio" (or cpio) with the utility called netcat.
Send the compressed volume through a pipe to netcat, and do the
opposite on the other end.
nc just acts as a pipe between two systems.
Note that afio may do bad things if it overwrites running
programs, so look out for that. --> you may want to create a 15
MB or so partition on each machine to run Debian until you get
it set up minimally (base system + some networking).
When you are done, you can use the bootstrapping partition as an
emergency repair system, or just add it on as more swap space.
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