Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Subject: RE: Backing up Cygwin Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:17:14 -0500 Message-ID: <03C99898510C8C47945B932907D99AAA02E82F@E2KMEMMCS1.ftbco.ftn.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: X-DCC-FTBDCCD1-Metrics: dns1 1130; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h6BGJCh17154 Did you also back up and restore the "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions" registry key? -Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: Luciano [mailto:lucianoav@gmx.net] > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:10 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Backing up Cygwin > > > Suppose I back up my entire Cygwin directory, format the disk, > reinstall Windows and restore Cygwin. It doesn't work. Why not? > Running Setup again then hunt and pecking very specific files from > the backup to the new installation is quite annoying. What else does > Setup copy/install and where? > > Thanks, > > -- > Luciano ES > > Santos, SP - Brasil > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/