Long shot... Reinstall Debian
I'm planning on switching from my current linux box to a newer faster one in the next couple of weeks. I have Debian Woody installed on the current one...
What I'm looking to do, is feed a list of packages to the fresh install of Debian and make it update and install everything that I had previously on the older install of Debian... What I mean is that I essentially want a clone of the old system on the new hardware (and I don't think a disk image will work b/c of the major differences in hardware). I'd like to have a software setup as similar as possible to the way it was before...
I know I can output a current list of packages installed on the system by using "dpkg --list" and I know how to save it to a file but is there a way dpkg (or is it apt-get?) can read this and grab everything from the Internet automagically?
I'm trying to not have to manually add a couple of hundred packages on my own using dselect...
Anyone know if it is possible?
Andy
Last edited by bfloeagle; 02-10-2004 at 04:12 PM.
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