notes from the mousepad

I volunteered at Free Geek Chicago again on Sunday, and spent much of my day trying to get Xubuntu Feisty Fawn to install on some rather unique hardware. It didn’t go so well.
The machine in question was a PII with 256mb of RAM, and two SCSI hard drives - one 8gb and one 4gb in [...]

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How about replicating an installed package list this way:
dpkg –get-selections | grep ‘[[:space:]]install$’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ > packagelist.txt on the old machine,
then:
sudo apt-get -u install `cat packagelist.txt` on new machine,
That should work. Only disadvantage is that you’d have to download the installed packages from the ‘net onto the new machine, rather than having [...]

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Apt on CD looks pretty awesome for For x/k/ed/ubuntu and debian users . . . There’s got to be a way to back up all of your installed .debs without the gui, but this will be useful for most desktop users. And I like how it allows you to share the packages [...]

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