Mandi! Kent West In chel di` si favelave... > What's the best way to clone a SCSI drive in a Sunblade 1000 running > Debian to another SB1000? I don't mind physically moving drives from one > box to another temporarily.
If you don't have done complex configuration you can also: 1) extract the list of installed package: dpkg --get-selections > /var/lib/dpkg/status.selections 2) make a copy of configuration file: tar -cvvzf /var/backups/$HOST-etc-$DATE.tar.gz /etc /root \ /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.selections \ /var/spool/cron 3) install the bare base system on the other 3 box, skipping tasksel and dselect phase. 4) extract from /var/lib/dpkg/status.selections the list of installed packages (it suffices | cut -f1 if i remember well) 5) feed the list of package to apt-get and install 6) untar the configration file on top of other, you can also do this with a different partition scheme but you have to preserve /etc/fstab and /etc/silo.conf. Voilą! ;) -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontą, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 Proteggiamo l'innovazione in Europa: no ai brevetti software http://swpat.xsec.it/