Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > 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/
