I've seen some vague reference to this before. But can't figure out when or where.
A friend is going to switch from Debian to Win2K (I know - completely evil) for their cable modem sharing machine. I set up the Debian box and would like to take a snapshot of the config.. They're happy to get rid of old 486 that's currently doing it as they realise a 486 won't hack it for Win2K, but they want to put existing HDD (and hence blow away config) into Win2K machine. Would like to know how to obtain a listing of installed packages on the system in a format such that I may easily feed this listing to a new install to have exactly the same packages. I assume in addition to this package listing, I'd need to take a copy of existing /etc dir (ignoring parts that are OK in package supplied format) TIA ADFH
