* Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> [020723 04:54]: > The process of installing Debian is agonizingly show the way I do it. I > use dselect and hand pick every package. That's fine for a single > machine. But I need a way to do that on one machine, and then propagate > that setup quickly to other machines on the network (consider them fresh > installs). I don't have a CD burner, so skip that. I considered rsync, > but I don't know if it would work for this. There is a project, which ist calles FAI (Fully Automated Installation), but I never tried it. Take a look at it at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ > Is there some Debian package that does this, or some known way to do it? > (If you need more data, ask.) If this is an overkill, you could install with disk on all your maschines the smallest base system, so that your machines can connect to the net/mirror/proxy. Then export your package selection on the machine, where you have done a complete install with "dpkg --get-selections >my-selections", and import this selection on your other machines with "dpkg --set-selection < my-selections". When you now run a "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade" all selected packages should be installed. -- cu Alex -- PGP key on demand, mailto:alexander@schmehl.info with subject "get pgp-key"
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