X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: <1137201240.1365.251826199@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: "Brett Serkez" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1137149072.2980.251770934@webmail.messagingengine.com> <43C789D2.8020505@equate.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine In-Reply-To: <43C789D2.8020505@equate.dyndns.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:14:00 -0500 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 [snip] > > Is it just the mount points that are the issue? The path? The > > desktop icon? It is possible to run setup against such an > > 'installation' to update it? > > It's primarily just the mount points. See Corinna's message in this > thread for recreating them. > > The desktop & start menu icons are obviously not going to be present > with this method, but that's not really an issue. It should be noted > that cygwin.bat has a full path in it, so this would need editing. > > Yes, you could run setup with this - it is, for all intents and > purposes, the installation you made with setup on the other machine. > Setup doesn't care that it's now on a different machine. None of what > it does is machine-specific. What about chere and services such as sshd and the like? Seems to me there is a short list, having a documented method or even a script to settle in a moved cygwin directory on a new system may be useful. I would presume this would be significantly faster than reinstalling on multiple systems. Brett ---------------------------------------------------------------- Brett C. Serkez, Techie -- 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/