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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rainer Hochreiter Subject: RE: non-interactive cygwin setup Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:41:32 +0200 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) X-IsSubscribed: yes On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:01:07 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Rainer Hochreiter >> Sent: 13 October 2004 08:32 > >> is there a chance to install cygwin without gui dialog? >> >> my plan is to download all needed packages into a local directory >> and then install the packages from that local directory by starting >> setup from a command line without further user interaction. > > "setup.exe --help" gives this output, which for some bizarre reason it > places in the setup.log file... > > 2004/10/07 10:19:09 Starting cygwin install, version 2.437 > 2004/10/07 10:19:09 Current Directory: C:\install-cyg > 2004/10/07 10:19:09 > Command Line Options: > -D --download Download from internet > -L --local-install Install from local directory > -s --site Download site > -R --root Root installation directory > -q --quiet-mode Unattended setup mode > -h --help print help > -l --local-package-dir Local package directory > -r --no-replaceonreboot Disable replacing in-use files on > next > reboot. > -5 --no-md5 Suppress MD5 checksum verification > -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and > start > menu shortcuts > -N --no-startmenu Disable creation of start menu > shortcut > -d --no-desktop Disable creation of desktop shortcut > -A --disable-buggy-antivirus Disable known or suspected buggy > anti > virus software packages during > execution. > Ending cygwin install hello dave, another question regarding non-interactive setup: how can i control whether i would to install for "Just Me" or "All Users", and Default Text File Type should be "DOS" or "Unix"? cheers, rainer -- 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/