Rogério Brito wrote: > On Aug 03 2005, Fernando Cacciola wrote: >> I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the >> netinst CD. > > Fine, that's what most people do. > >> Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst >> CD once again and wait for all the packages to download, but I was >> wondering if I can somehow create a set of ISO images using the >> machine were debian is already installed. > > This is where apt-move comes in quite handy: with it, you can get the > packages you used to install your system, move them into a directory > tree quite similar to that of Debian servers (with pool, dists etc) > and you can use mkisofs to burn that on a CD for using on a friend's > place where you are without Internet connection. > > This method is also quite handy for reinstalling after a system > failure. > > Just be sure to save the list of package you had installed (say, with > dpkg --get-selections or with wajig, for instance) and in the case of > a disaster, you will be one step closer to bringing everything up > again. > > > Ha OK. What I just did was to use dpkg-scanpackages, as outlined in the APT HOWTO in the section "How to use apt-get locally", to create a "Packages.gz" with a compressed version of the packages list. Then I created an ISO with all the .deb files along with the Packages.gz and burned it to a CD. On the target machine I started the nestinst and I stop when I got at the "configure apt" section when it asks me to specify the source. ...then I get to work (the real paid work I mean) :-) Tonight I plan to continue the installation putting that CD as the apt source... I don't know if it's going to work but if it doesn't, apt-move as you suggest here seems to be on the same line. (and if that fails I'll use jitdo as others outlined)
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