[Debian-au] Methods of migrating from one box to another?

[Brendan O'Dea]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 03:35:43PM +1100, Lucy Newman wrote:
>Wotcha,
>
>I'm retiring my desktop, and have just bought a laptop to use instead.
>My desktop was happily configured with all my hand picked debian
>packages and I'd like to get this onto my new laptop. I only have
>dialup, and a 7 cd set of Sid from Feb 2002 (thanks incidentally to Tony
>Green :-) ) which was what I used to set up the desktop in the first place. 
>I've installed a base system, am am now considering how to best install all
>my other deb selections.

Try running "dpkg --get-selections >foo" on your desktop, copy the output
onto your laptop and run "dpkg --set-selections <foo" there.

Install using "apt-get dselect-upgrade", or through dselect.

--bod