Hi all, I must be being thick...
alonzo:~# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt alonzo:~# dpkg --get-selections >/mnt/tmp/slns alonzo:~# chroot /mnt alonzo:/# dpkg --set-selections </tmp/slns alonzo:/# dpkg --get-selections >/tmp/slns2 alonzo:/# diff --brief /tmp/slns /tmp/slns2 Files /tmp/slns and /tmp/slns2 differ Those two files are meaningfully different. What I'm trying to do is move a potato install from one partition to another, as part of a rearrangement and resizing of partitions. I figured that I could make a tarball of /etc, /usr/local, and possibly I need /var, and then use the selections list and I'd have the same install I had before, but --set-selections is beating me. Cheers, Josh
