Re: How to clone a system easily?
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:15:52 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
>My preference is to do a minimal base system installation, then run:
>
> $ dpgk --get-selections > file
>
>..on the old system followed by
>
> $ dpkg --set-selections < file
> $ apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
>
>..on the new one.
...which was exactly what I did today on a colleagues new installation,
cloning from mine.
But apt wasn´t impressed by that, so I reverted to dselect (which I
didn´t use in ~ 1 year now), and there the [I]nstall - option
did the trick ;)
JIC someone´s going to search the archives for that...
cheers,
&rw
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