[linux-help] Re: Debian/apt guru required...

[Jesse Kaufman <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

you may not have to go to all that trouble...  what exactly does lilo do
when it "doesn't really apreciate the partitioning scheme"?  i've got some
pretty whacked out partitions here (or i used to) and never had a problem
(heck, i had my ext2 partition w/ all my mp3z thinking it was a Windows
partition once!!!)...

gLaNDix


On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Jeremy King wrote:

>
> I'm in the process of whacking mandrake off of all my
> machines and replacing it with Debian.  A simple
> gateway ipmasq server is working wonderfully.  But, on
> my second box I spent a long time picking through the
> dselect package list only to discover that neither
> lilo nor grub really appreciate my current
> partitioning scheme (this is my dual-booting game
> box). I don't see any way of fixing the partition
> table short of obliterating the debian install.  I
> wouldn't mind doing this, but I really don't want to
> repeat my effort going through the package selection
> process a second time.
>
> Is there a way that I can use apt to save a list of
> the packages that are currently installed, reinstall
> the base system, then use apt-get to reinstall the
> files from my package list?
>
> I don't mind reconfiguring the packages--it's just
> that picking through thousands of packages in dselect
> drives me nuts.
>
> Jeremy
>
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