I would like to install my new laptop with the same packages as those installed on my desktop (which is a sid debian).
So I installed a basic potato debian without selecting any packages, then after the first reboot I mount (via NFS) a directory where I stored a debian ftp site mirror plus some specific packages (a home made kernel (build with kernel-package) and such packages (alsa-modules, pcmcia-modules)). I configure apt such that it looks for package on this nfs mounted directory. I then installed my own packages (kernel, pcmcia, etc.) reboot the system, then I do on my desktop dpkg --get-selections > mylist and on my laptop cat mylist | dpkg --set-selections I have then done a : dselect install And all was not right. Dselect have had a lot of problems with some package. I call dselect install a lot of time, and then all seems right, but a lot of stuff does not seems to be well installed (X for instance, even after I copy my own hand-made XF86Config-4). So here is my question : What's the good and efficient way to install a debian box with exactly the same list of packages than another machine ? Second question : Where may I have found this information ? -- -- Bruno