I have successfully been using 10.2 w/ Fink on my G3 Powerbook
laptop. I have built KDE and quite a few other programs that take a
while to build and updated.

I'm getting set to update my iMac which is also a G3. Previously I
used the iMac as a build host for the Powerbook when I was running
10.1.5. I have a CD-Burner and my iMac has a small hard drive. (Which
I will probably upgrade if I can figure out how to save it and restore
to a new hard drive - but that is not a fink problem). I would like to
be able every now and then to simply take a snapshot of my fink
installation, so that I would be able to install everything from a CD
(or two).  This strikes me as a great way to move from one machine to
another as well as have a backup in case of disaster without the
rather consuming task of rebuilding packages from cvs. What would I
need to do. Is it enough to simply burn the /sw directory to a CD? Has
anyone considered simply making an ISO image?

Also, I have an external firewire drive which I could attach to
different machines. Could I use that as a repository and then attach
the drive to machines when I wanted to install the Fink binaries?

I know I could just use a binary installation, but that would require
an internet connection and not always be up to date (though it is
getting better)

-- 
Josh Kuperman
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