Incoming from Andrew Graupe: > > I'm also trying to figure out how to do this, but I would prefer a > method that works with all distros.
There's no such animal. Since they're .tgz, .rpm, or .deb based, and since each of those have their own ways of doing things, just figure out what you want to do and do it. For Debian, you can download a netinstall iso, burn that, boot from it, and finish the rest of the install from the network. dpkg --get-selections > /mnt/packages.txt That will save off your installed package list to a file. On the new box, do: dpkg --set-selections < /mnt/packages.txt aptitude update aptitude install and the new box should be a very close copy of the first box. RPM supports essentially the same sort of functionality (or SuSE did, at least). I imagine such a thing would be pretty simple to do in Gentoo. If you're running Slackware, you don't need my help. :-) I suppose, if pressed, you could do something like what you want if you simply come up with a common "bare install", then augment that bare install with some way to finish it depending on what distro you're using. That's the route I'd take. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
