On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 04:33:09PM -0000, Hubert Tonneau wrote: > I am the manager of the computing department in a > french company. We are currently running most servers > under OS/2 witch had been chosen in 1992 and are > now planning to move to Linux. > > I am very pleased with the Debian dpkg command line > utility that enables to write trivial scripts for > upgrading a set of machines, and the consistency > of the Debian distibution. > > On the other hand, though very easy to use, the > installation of the base system is not convienient > for a large set of computers since it still lacks > the ability to add an ascii file on the rescue > disk that would provide all the necessery > informations to the installation script. > (I think this is called kickstart on Red Hat 5) > > Do you plan to provide such a feature, or is there > a trick to get around it ?
There is a mechanism to tell dselect which packages are preselected.
This could not only be used to provide a list of possible preselected
types (network server, workstation, xterminal etc.) but also to
read in such a list.
I suppose you'll do the following:
a) Install one machine with all the packages you like
b) Get the selection with
dpkg --get-selections > my.selection
c) Install the next machine
Quit dselect after you specified the access method
d) Add the selection from the other machine with
cat my.selection | dpkg --set-selections
e) Run dselect to install the files. Of if you need batch mode
mount /pub/debian under /mnt and then
cd /mnt
dpkg -iGROEB hamm/hamm hamm/contrib hamm/non-free
Regards,
Joey
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