on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:36:42AM -0000, vdemart@supereva.it (vdemart@supereva.it) wrote: > > I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS. > My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my laptop to another of my desktop? > (I had a go at with "cp -R -d --target-directory=/mydir files", modified fstab, but, even if it works, from time to time UID problems emerge) > Vittorio Better to go through a proper installation. Cloning a system is best done on identical hardware. You can simplify the process by: - Install _just_ the base system on the laptop. - Saving your current configuration with $ dpkg --get-selections > file - Copying your current debian package archive to the new system. These are the files under /var/cache/apt/archives. - Set the desktop's package selection: $ dpkg --set-selections < file - Run an apt-get update. Most of your packages should be fetched from the existing local archive. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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