On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:11 AM, H.S. wrote:
> On 21/07/10 08:41 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
>
>
>> 3. Build the new machine with the netinst or businesscard cd. When asked
>> what type of system to build (package selection), uncheck all the boxes.
>>
>> Reboot into your new system, copy pkglist.host
On 21/07/10 08:41 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
3. Build the new machine with the netinst or businesscard cd. When asked
what type of system to build (package selection), uncheck all the boxes.
Reboot into your new system, copy pkglist.hostname from step 1 onto the
machine. Do the following:
I thi
John,
For future reference, if you want to have a basic clone (not an exact copy)
of a machine, what I end up doing (which allows me to provision a machine in
about 15 minutes) uses the following procedure:
1. Create a package list on the old machine [1]
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v d
John Lindsay wrote:
I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell
Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD.
I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G
HD with 1.5g ram. I will be removing files from the win7 and storing
them on DVDs and inst
Dne, 18. 07. 2010 16:43:32 je Mark napisal(a):
>
> Backup Windows first, put the old HD into the new computer, boot up
to
> Linux (you might have to edit Grub at this point) then dd the MBR
to the
> new drive on the new computer, then sync the rest of the drive
either
> using rsync, copy o
On 18/07/10 09:14 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
Backup Windows first, put the old HD into the new computer, boot up to
Linux (you might have to edit Grub at this point) then dd the MBR to the
new drive on the new computer,
Regarding the dd'ing of grub, why not just do (after booting in to the
sy
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 7/18/2010 7:20 AM, John Lindsay wrote:
> > I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell
> > Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD.
> > I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G HD
On 7/18/2010 7:20 AM, John Lindsay wrote:
> I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell
> Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD.
> I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G HD
> with 1.5g ram. I will be removing files from the win7 and sto
I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell
Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD.
I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G HD
with 1.5g ram. I will be removing files from the win7 and storing them
on DVDs and installing Debian on it.
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