Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/15/14:28:05
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:25:36PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> >Oh, it wouldn't be "people" using setup.exe; it would be me. Over and
> >over and over and over...
>
> And you're infallible? This is YA reason why you should just script this.
Yes and yes. :-)
> >Hmmmmm... so, something like
> >
> > 0) choose download-only mode
> > 1) select the packages I want
> > 2) download them
> > 3) edit setup.ini and add 'Base' to the "category:" line for the
> > additional packages I want to install (and have downloaded)
> > 4) on each client system,
> > 4a) make the package "cache" and edited setup.ini available
> > 4b) choose install-from-local
> > 5) fervent invocation of deity
> >
> >I'll try this once my experimentatal-W2K box gets done thrashing around.
(Followup note: it works flawlessly. I only need a finishing script to
call mkpasswd (need to extract a domain account and append it to /etc/passwd,
otherwise all the usernames are wrong) and run the ssh-*-config scripts.)
Phil
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