Re: Drive images

[Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001, Bill Fowler wrote:
> I want to replicate my Debian system onto a number of other PCs, not all of
> which have the same size hard drive.  Is there a good way to make an image
> of a partition(s) and replicate to other PCs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill Fowler

Bill,

Hi.  While it won't preserve your custom configuration options, 'dpkg
--get-selections > FILE' on master computer, then 'dpkg
--set-selections < FILE' on slave computers should get you much of the
way there.  Granted you have to do some base install and disk
partitioning yourself, but it's still a big time saver.  See 'man
dpkg' for more info.

Hope this helps and take care,

Daniel


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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University