* Paul Sargent <Paul.Sargent@3dlabs.com> [2001.11.08 12:12:03+0000]: > 1) I'm booting the machine off the current woody rescue/root images > (ReiserFS ones). Everything works great until it tries to install the > base distribution. Because my mirror is of Woody and Sid, the > installation fails because there are still several packages linked over > to Potato. One of these is "at", which is part of the base distribution. > My mirror is already 8G and I really don't want to add another 5 to that > to mirror Potato as well. Does anybody have any idea how to get around > this? just add the UK mirror next to yours. then the internet will only be used for the potato files. or use a potato CDROM in apt's sources.list for potato only. > The problem is that when I use "dpkg --set-selections < [file]" it > appears to add the extra packages I've chosen, but not remove packages > I've gotten rid of of the first machine. Does anybody know of a method to > get a package selection list from machine A to machine B, so machine B > ends up with exactly the same packages installed regardless of what was > there before? do you purge or delete packages? > Also, any other pointers that people may have if you've ever attempted this > before. Thanks do you have identical hdd's (size) and mostly identical hardware configurations? then imaging would be the best... -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck XP is NT with eXtra Problems.
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