CanasClone
May 23rd, 2009, 05:25 PM
I run a windows/ubuntu dual boot but my windows partition got corrupted by a virus (imagine that) so I reinstalled windows, unfortunately rewriting the MBR. I thought reinstalling grub would be a simple procedure, but I could not get it to work right and the bootloaders on the ultimate boot cd didn't recognize my ubuntu partition for some reason. Anyway, I was locked out of ubuntu and lived with it until 9.04 was released. Now I want to install 9.04 but it would be a hundred times easier if I could reinstall my previous applications in 9.04 with some simple tricks. I have access with a live cd to all of my ubuntu files on the hard drive but cannot boot directly into it. I've seen tricks for creating a list of installed applications using "dpkg --get-selections > backup" but this requires being booted into ubuntu in the first place. Is there a list somewhere in the filesystem of all of dpkg's installed packages that could work too? Thanks!