On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:08:15PM -0500, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: > Hello all, > > First, Debian kicks a**!! Agreed...it just doesn't get any better than this!
> Second, is there a deselect command that will give me a list of packages > that I can then use it to install an identical box using apt/deselect? I > know that RedHat has a quick installation type utility and I was > wondering if Debian has something similar. This way a base installation > can be done on the box and then tell dselect that these are the packages > I want without intervention from the user. > > Thanks > Miguel A. Figueroa At this point, all you can do is synchronize the packages on multiple systems: >From the machine that has the list of packages installed you want, do dpkg --get-selections > packagelist Then, move packagelist to the destination computer, and do dpkg --set-selections < packagelist and then '[I]nstall' from dselect, or 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' And both machines will have the same set of packages installed. Unfortunately, you still have to babysit the install process and the configure scripts. Some people are working on a system to let you do a 'kickstart' install similar to RedHat. Check the debian-admintool list for info (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/). Until then, hire monkeys to do the gruntwork :-) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
