how to clone a debian installation

I've got a new hdd supposed to be arriving tomorrow (3 days late, thanks
eBuyer ... not) and I want to use it to replace the smaller one currently
in my desktop. I'd like to do a clean new install of debian stable on to
it but with the same packages installed as on my curent one. Thus I need
to somehow get a list of currently installed packages, check it and edit
out any I know I don't need, and use it to specify packages to install on
the new drive.

I'd appreciate some pointers to the tools and docs I should be looking at
to do this.

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:56:09 GMT, John Stumbles
<john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I've got a new hdd supposed to be arriving tomorrow (3 days late, thanks
> eBuyer ... not) and I want to use it to replace the smaller one currently
> in my desktop. I'd like to do a clean new install of debian stable on to
> it but with the same packages installed as on my curent one. Thus I need
> to somehow get a list of currently installed packages, check it and edit
> out any I know I don't need, and use it to specify packages to install on
> the new drive.
>
dpkg --get-selections
dpkg --set-selections



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