(No need to Cc me, btw.) > On the golden machine do > dpkg --get-selections > golden.txt > > copy -r /etc/apt/* to the new machine, as well as golden.txt > > Then do on the new clone > apt-get update > cat golden.txt | dpkg --set-selections > apt-get upgrade
If I did that, I would get whatever was current on whatever apt sources I was using. For example, download.kde.org has a newer version of KDE 3 than I have on the golden machine. I've hand backported a bunch of stuff (like kopete) that won't necessarily work with a newer KDE. (My experience is that it won't work, in fact.) Hence my thought about using "dpkg-repack" to regenerate what the golden machine has back into packages for use on the other machines to use. Then a good old-fashioned "dpkg --install *.deb" or "dpkg -iGROEB" to either install everything or upgrade everything from stable. > That shoud do it. Or try one of the low-level approaches > http://wyae.de/docs/img_dd.php > http://wyae.de/docs/img_rsync.php I'll look into those. Thanks, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available
