Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?
Thank you, everyone, for the answers. This will make restoring this go faster.
Just a little note with this to say I can't tell people on this list and the Debian Developers how much I appreciate Debian. Right now I'm having issues with the new hardware fitting in place and irritating stuff like that, which is dragging things out. But since this is on Debian, experience tells me that once the hardware is all working, setting up the replacement system (even if I have to do it from scratch) will not take long because of all the careful planning and work that goes into building Debian. I'll be able to use the same packages I had before, altering the configurations is almost unneeded in most cases (I think all I have to change is sshd_config for RSA auth. and no password auth and change MySQL so it uses the directories on my RAID instead of the defaults).
So thank you for the help on this, but overall, thank you for Debian and all those willing to help on this list.
Hal
On Jan 8, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I have a frustrating situation.
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> I had a RAID go out on me and require rebuilding. It's mostly rebuilt and all my data is intact, but not all the settings and config info and program files have been copied over yet.
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> And, while I have to rebuild that RAID, which is my back up -- well, you can predict the rest.
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> That's when a system went down on me. It was sometime last night and now I can't even get video on the monitor for a POST, so the mobo is fried.
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> I do have a system I can transfer this one to, however, there's one problem: The new system uses SATA and the old drivers are PATA. Fortunately, I can run a PATA drive on the new system, but it's going to be easier if I don't boot off it for now.
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> 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.
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> So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages?
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> Thank you!
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> Hal
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