On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to install debian on different PC's using same selection
> of packages for each PC. Is it possible if I have one PC fully
> configured to take its list of installed packages and install
> these on a second pc, whithout having to go through the whole
> list with dselect again? I'm currently using the debian release
> on the recent Infomagic CD-ROM set (the green one).
My solution assumes my partition tables are set up:
/dev/hda1 -- Linux swap
/dev/hda2 -- Linux native
/dev/hda3 -- NT
I mount the target drive onto the source machine's IDE chain; generally it's
been easist for me to detach the CD's cables, attach them to the target HD,
and just lay it on top of the case. Once it's rebooted into Linux and with
as little running as possible, I issue
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdc2 bs=512
e2fsck /dev/hdc2
The e2fsck() is because I'm copying from a live filesystem and there are
invariably a few inconsistencies and other gremlins. Once the target
drive's back in its own machine, I go through /etc/ and make any needed
hostname or other changes. Thus far, I've made sure that all of my Linux
partitions are of equal size. One of these days, I might experiment with
different-sized paritions to see what happens. I turned one machine into
six and then six into 46 without problems.
D.
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