Subject: Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort
From: Jesper Eskilson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 15 Mar 2002 08:48:01 +0100

Christopher Faylor <[email-masked]> writes:

> Either that or something like (untested):
> 
>     mkdir c:\cygwin
>     cd c:\cygwin
>     c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/cygwin-*.tar.bz2
>     mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin /
>     mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>     mount -f -s -x -b c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>     c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/bash-*.tar.bz2
>     bin/bash
>     for f in /cygdrive/c/whereever/*.tar.bz2; do
> 	case "$f" in
> 	    cygwin-*)	;;
> 	    bash-*)	;;
> 	    *) /cygdrive/c/whereever/tar xjf $f ;;
> 	esac
>     done
>     cd /etc/postinstall
>     for f in *.sh; do /bin/sh ./$f; done
>     for f in *.bat; do cmd /c .\\$f; done
>     exit

I've been looking for this script. Come to papa! ;-)

Won't this leave out the necessary updates to the registry? Or does mount
take care of that?

-- 
/Jesper

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