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Interspersed. -- Mac :}) Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age. ----- Original Message ----- From: <linguist-cygwin AT rich-paul DOT net> To: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> Cc: "Cygwin Users" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>; "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:25 PM Subject: Re: Mass deployment > The workability of this solution implies (I think) that I could do the > following and have it work: > 1) Do an install of those packages I want on a single machine. > 2) tar czf mycyg.tgz cygwin > 3) regedit and dump keys from the registry file into a .reg file I'd dump the keys before creating the archive so the .reg file can be inside the archive. > 4) For each machine I am installing to: > 4a) tar -xzf mycyg.tgz ( to the same root location ) It might be a good idea to remove the old Cygwin tree before laying down a new one. You can use untgz.exe in systems that don't already have Cygwin installed. A self-extracting file using Info-Zip might also be useful though the file would be bigger. > 4b) cmd /c start regedit cygwin.reg If you run it from a DOS prompt, you don't need the cmd /c and it will work under Win9x too. > 4c) prey I thought you were trying to help your remote users, not subsist on them... -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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