Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: >> For the sysems I back up at work, we do the dpkg --get-selections >> thing, but I've never kept a copy of the boot sector -- that's an >> excellent idea.
I guess the 'state of the art' way of recording a list of installed packages, nowadays is # aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!~M' > package-list You can then just install like # aptitude install $(cat pacage-list) dpkg --get-selections does not distinguish between packages installed manually or automatically, so that information is lost on the reinstall. The search pattern just looks for packages that were installed manually. The install will automatically install all dependencies. > If I had managed to understand what was going on between the part > where the MBR got munched and other bits started flying out to the > disk, it would have worked to just rewrite the MBR and reboot. There is also testdisk to help recover the mbr for you... Worked for me once. -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
