Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat
Arthur
Seems to me that a good bit of the trouble I will have is in the initial
installation of a duplicate base ssytem. How can you record the decisions
that were made in creating the base system and and that must be made on
recreated base system before you can continue with apt-get .... ?
--David Teague
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Arthur H. Johnson II <arthur@usol.com>
> To: John F Davis <johndavi@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat
> Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:43:26 -0400
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> This is what I do for duplication:
>
> 1. Get a system the way you want
> 2. run "dpkg --get-selections > somefile.dselect"
> 3. Copy somefile.dselect somewhere accessable, possibly CD with
> installation media
> 4. Install a base system
> 5. Copy somefile.dselect to new system
> 6. Run: cat somefile.dselect | dpkg --set-selections
> 7. Run: apt-get dselect-upgrade (or) dselect install
>
> And in a while your system will be a duplicate of the origional system.
>
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> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, John F Davis wrote:
>
> >
> > Would it be difficult to write an equivalent of redhat kickstart for
> > debian?
> >
> > JD
> >
> > Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>@pooh.int> on 07/18/2002 09:57:00 AM
> >
> > Sent by: Kirk Strauser <kirk@pooh.int>
> >
> >
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > cc:
> > Subject: Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 2002-07-18T04:24:48Z, grante@visi.com writes:
> >
> > > apt-get is quite nice. I like _running_ Debian, but it's too bad the
> > > initial install is such a nightmare.
> >
> > Personally, I like the Debian installer. Then again, I find the FreeBSD
> > installer to be the pinnacle of user-friendly, so I may be a bit unusual
> > that way.
> >
> > Still, even if you hate the installer, look at it this way: once it's
> > running, you'll probably never have to mess with it again. I've been
> > around
> > Debian systems that were originally installed years ago, but have been kept
> > current through several releases via apt-get. When was the last time you
> > saw a RedHat system that hadn't been touched in years?
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