David Sastre wrote: > You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to > request that (or any other) info:
You can also use dpkg's --admindir option so: dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections > packagelist.txt I'd imagine you could just pipe that into another dpkg, too: dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections | dpkg --set-selections -- Avi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110108183845.69f9f...@farquad
