Re: hardware change
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:10:28AM +0400, Alex Lorca wrote:
> i'm going to change some hardware in my computer (motherboard and video
> card)... do i need to reinstall the whole system?? in this case how can
> i save my configuration???
Depends. X is unlikely to work without some fiddling, and if you have
serious hardware differences (e.g. different USB chipset, switching from ATA
to SATA bus) you'll find it difficult to boot, I suspect.
> i need to install the same system in other computer too, how can i
> "copy" the same configuration of mine to this computer??
If it's "pure" Debian,
dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt
will save a list of all installed packages and their status, and
dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt
apt-get install
will try to install the same packages on the new box.
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