On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:42:53, David Sastre wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I > > don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed on the old > > PATA drive. I can, though, plug it in and read it as a data drive. > > > > So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages? > > You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to > request that (or any other) info: > > # dpkg -l > list.of.packages.txt > > The result is a much smaller file: > > # dpkg -l > list If you can/want to use dpkg better use --get-selections because the output can be fed to --set-selections ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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