Re: How to clone a system easily?

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at> writes:

> 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 

Karsten was close by; `apt-get dselect-upgrade' instead of only
`upgrade' would have done the trick without bothering dselect.

Greetings,
joachim