On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I > don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed on the old > PATA drive. I can, though, plug it in and read it as a data drive. > > So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages?
You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to request that (or any other) info: # dpkg -l > list.of.packages.txt The result is a much smaller file: # dpkg -l > list # ll list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 297969 ene 8 18:39 list # ll /var/lib/dpkg/status -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2094674 dic 23 20:57 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB
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