On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:06:23PM -0000, martin f krafft wrote: > just add the UK mirror next to yours. then the internet will only be > used for the potato files. or use a potato CDROM in apt's sources.list > for potato only.
OK, I'll give it a go. Would that be a entry for the testing or stable part of the UK mirror? > > The problem is that when I use "dpkg --set-selections < [file]" it > > appears to add the extra packages I've chosen, but not remove packages > > I've gotten rid of of the first machine. Does anybody know of a method to > > get a package selection list from machine A to machine B, so machine B > > ends up with exactly the same packages installed regardless of what was > > there before? > > do you purge or delete packages? I tend to purge, trying to keep the system as clean as possible. > > > Also, any other pointers that people may have if you've ever attempted this > > before. Thanks > > do you have identical hdd's (size) and mostly identical hardware > configurations? then imaging would be the best... At the moment we've only built the first machine, the others will follow if this is a success. All will try to be as similar as possible, but becuase there's going to be a time delay in buying bits, I'll bet things will be slightly different. Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
