>> Hi, >> >> how do I create a usable installation CD with downloaded packages that are >> currently in /var/cache/apt? >> >> I am running a standard Debian 2.2r3. >> I just installed KDE 2.1.1 using dselect to fetch and install packages
>> from the net. >> I need to install this standard setup on other Debian 2.2r3 computers, and >> I don't want to spend the hours downloading the same packages every time. >> In some cases there will be no Internet connection to do that (or it will >> be unacceptably slow). >> So I would like to produce an installation CD with the packages in my >> cache. I would like to be able to simply add that CD to the sources.list >> as any other source, so I can use dselect to install. >> >> I have tried looking at apt-move, but I do not comprehend its usage. >> I have tried searching the lists for similar questions but I couldn't find >> any. >> > >If you have a cd burner you can use a program called Mondo. >It will do a complete backup and restore of your system to bootable CD's. >But you can selectively restore any subset of data on the CD. > >I use it to clone my Debian and Slackware systems to other partitons on my >hd. It makes a great disaster recovery disk, because you just boot the >Mondo created CD and it automatically restores your system to the hd. > >It even will re-partition your hd's and restore to different filesystems. >I used it to clone my ext2fs to reiserfs on one partition and ext3 on >another. You can find Mondo at: > >http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It sounds like a good clone and backup tool. But my different systems will not be identical. Different users have different programs installed. Thus I expect the different computers to have somewhat different library and file versions. Simply putting a backup of selected files from my computer onto other users' computers I fear will overwrite some of their file versions in such a way that it brakes some of their programs. Can you confirm or disclaim this? Best regards Johnny :o)
