On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote:
Mike Robinson wrote:
Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd
like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the
Debian Testing installation with Etch. I have one large partition with all
of the data I need to save; the rest can go away. I've never done anything
like this before, so any warnings/advice is welcome.
I've lost track of what brought you to this stage, but if you're going
to do it, this may be helpful:
dpkg --get-selections >
/path/to/partition/for/keeping/stuff/selections
and then after the basic install do
dpkg --set-selections < /path/to/place/you/put/selections
and then do
apt-get dselect-upgrade
to bring in the selection of packages you had before.
note though that if package names changed between etch and lenny, then
there could be problems... you may have to manually edit the list.