If you want to clone your machine in a particularly geeky way...
Try this:
Copy over your home directory to the new machine
Then install dselect on the new machine
Install debconf-utils on the old machine
On the old machine do:
dpkg --get-selections >dpkg-selections
debconf-get-selections >debconf-selections
Transfer the dpkg-selections debconf-selections to the new machine, as
well as /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
then run:
dselect update
debconf-set-selections <debconf-selections
dpkg --clear-selections
dpkg --set-selections <dpkg-selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade
The above commands will update dpkg's package database, since it it
different that apt's package database. debconf-set-selections will load
the various configurations that you have for your packages from the old
machine. dpkg --clear-selections will set everything non-essential to be
purged from the system, clearing the way for a fresh list of packages.
dpkg --set-selections will set to install all the packages that you had
on your previous machine. Finally apt-get dselect-upgrade will look
over the package database that you have not messed with and make the
system into the system that the database describes.
The end result is that you should have a system that closely resembles
your old machine, but without any extra garbage that machine has picked up.
The above files are also a good way to backup a custom install that you
want to be able to clone quickly. You can save those files and hand
them off to people as a starting point for a good install... be aware
that the debconf selections may contain passwords, so you might need to
clean those out before handing them off to anyone.
Brian Cluff
On 01/03/2013 02:20 PM,
joe@actionline.com wrote:
>
>> There are a zillion ways to do what you want ...
>
> Thanks to all for all the excellent tips and ideas.
>
> At this point, I think I'm going to just use the Kubuntu 12.04 live-CD
> that I have to install it on the target machine (since I've done that
> successfully before a couple times with no problem), and then use 'rsync'
> (which I've also been using successfully for quite a while to copy over
> all the applicable files.
>
> May not be the quickest or most efficient method, but I almost know what
> I'm doing.
>
> Perhaps later, I'll try to figure out what is the most efficient method
> that requires the fewest steps to try again on another machine.
>
> Thanks again for all the valuable suggestions.
>
>
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