Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:15PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:13:36AM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > Bollocks to that, just use dd. That gives you changed files from /etc for > > free, and all you'll have to do is re-run lilo. > Does dd operate with different targe

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:13:36AM +, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > I'd like to do something which I think is conceptually > > straightforward but I've never quite put all the bits together, or > > found anyone that has. > > > > I'd

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > I'd like to do something which I think is conceptually > straightforward but I've never quite put all the bits together, or > found anyone that has. > > I'd like to duplicate a Debian install. Once I have all my favorite > packages

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:01:39AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > Look up the "fai" package. > > apt-cache show fai > Thanks! > The simpler version of course is dpkg --get-selections and then build a > dummy package that depends on all of those. Yeah, nice idea in theory, horrifying in prac

Re: Recreating a debian install

2003-01-10 Thread Roger Burton West
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: >I'd like to duplicate a Debian install. Once I have all my favorite >packages and apt sources etc I'd like to be able to make a boot CD that >will install a Debian system with those packages. The CD could either >have the .debs or pu

Recreating a debian install

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
I'd like to do something which I think is conceptually straightforward but I've never quite put all the bits together, or found anyone that has. I'd like to duplicate a Debian install. Once I have all my favorite packages and apt sources etc I'd like to be able to make a boot CD that will install