> The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and > allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way > to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage, > so I have to type the same things for each install.
just off the top of my head, but how about using deselect to select the packages, then replacing /var/lib/dpkg/status on the other machines with this file from the master? Then master downloads the files by ftp (or whatever), and the others get their files from master? rick