[Gllug] Duplicate Debian setup

[Simon Stewart]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:36:36PM -0000, Steve Nicholson wrote:

<snip "the perils of /etc/fstab to the unwary">

> > What advantage does this method have over splitting an archive of the
> > files I care about and simply recreating it at home? The home machine
> > has a hard drive big enough to fit the work machines 3 times over....
> 
> It's quicker and you know everything will be there, you might have to
> change some config files if the hardware is different and it matters
> e.g. graphics cards.

Reconfiguring X isn't too much of a hassle, and the only other thing
that depends explicitly on the hardware is lm_sensors. I take your
point about knowing that everything will be there, though --- there's
been a couple of times when that's managed to "gotcha" me before.

Of course, if I am truely paranoid, I could obtain an explicit list of
installed files from dpkg, and add them to a tar ball (or a cpio
archive) using xargs.... *thinks* but that may be overkill.

> > Still looks like one of the best ideas so far. Quite keen on
> > downloading the .debs and burning those to CD to avoid the cruft
> > that's accumalated around my system as it evolved to be the comfy
> > place it is now.... :)
> 
> I hear what your saying. I have been wondering lately how I can put
> testing and unstable on CD's so I can take them home with me.  My folks
> live on a farm and can only get 33kbs on a modem I think it will be
> painful if I want anything since I'm used to ADSL here.  I know there
> are some scripts for creating these but haven't had time to look at them
> yet.  So much to do so little time.....

If I end up hacking together a natty script to do this, then you're
welcome to a copy. The "nano-second's worth of thought" version
suggests forcing a download of every installed package and extracting
everything that I want from apt's cache....

> Oh other idea I had, why not take you home HDD into work and copy it
> across?

Too easy. :P

Seriously, the reason is twofold: I'm not a very organised early
morning person, and if anything went awry, I'd be enormously
inconvenienced. Weak excuses, but valid none-the-less.

Cheers,

Simon

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