-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using Debian on an iMac G5. Everything is alright but I > have to hand the computer over to another user and I will get a PC in > return. > > I'm not sure what would be the best path to follow to recreate my debian > environment in the new machine. I cannot repackage packages because the > architecture is different,but maybe there is an automatic tool to save > the configuration and the list of packages. > > On top of that, I don't know if things like MySQL databases can be > simply copied or if I should export/import them. Is there a way to know > if a package data is platform independent? (little/big endian issues > and things like that). > > Thanks, Eduardo. Hi, you basically want to save the data, the /etc and your program list (dpkg --get-selections). Just install the basic system on the new box use 'cat yourlist.txt|dpkg --set-selections' then a 'dselect-update' this will then bring in all the same packages. Then you can move in the /etc/ data to setup the configurations. or you can just use the /etc files as a reference and just configure it manually. you should be able to move /home will little problems. Of course you will have to setup all your hardware: network, video, etc. As for the data base, you can 'dump' the data in various formats. Maybe you can setup the 2 machines to work together and ftp the data from one to the other. Cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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