>Is there a way to find out everything that is installed on
>a Debian system? I have a system that is configured exactly
>the way I want, but I have to move to a new machine. The new
>machine has completely different hardware, so moving the
>disk won't work (the old one is IDE and the new one is SCSI).
>What I'd like to do is just feed a list of everything that is
>installed on the first system to apt-get or dpkg on the second
>system and just let it run. Any ideas?
You may have your reasons for using dpkg or whatever,
but be informed that the SCSI versus IDE issue need
not necessarily be a showstopper. Assuming the
SCSI system also has an IDE controller, you could
temporarily install the IDE drive into the SCSI system
(possibly even booting from it after configuring
your kernel to additionally recognize the new SCSI
hardware while the drive is still installed in the
IDE system) and then use various tar/dd/cp trickery
to copy the files/filesystems/partitions directly onto
the SCSI drive. Ya just gotta think inside the box.
P.S. Since the idiots at std.com have (a) totally f***ed
up their sendmail and (B) totally refuse to provide
ANY information about this week-long fiasco to their
luckless (and maybe soon-to-be-ex-) customers, I'll
have no idea if any replies or followups to this
thread will reach me until/unless they actually do...
P.P.S. Seeing idiocy exhibited by std.com staffers is
particularly disappointing since until recently I
believed them to be more cluefull than most...
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