X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:56:09 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine Message-ID: <20060116075609.GB2088@efn.org> References: <1137149072.2980.251770934@webmail.messagingengine.com> <43C789D2.8020505@equate.dyndns.org> <1137201240.1365.251826199@webmail.messagingengine.com> <43C851B8.3000307@equate.dyndns.org> <1137203965.3893.251827605@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1137203965.3893.251827605@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:59:25PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: > [snip] > > Not particularly, assuming you use the same local package cache on > > each machine, especially if you use the trick for pulling in all the > > packages you want automatically. > > Right. > > > I don't know about chere, > > chere must have settings in the registry, as it adds a 'bash here' menu > option in explorer when you right click on a directory. You'd have to > run 'chere -i' on the new system. > > > That means that setup, services like sshd, cron, inetd, etcetera will > > be available for installation. > > Right, available for installation, you'd have to run the setup scripts. > I suppose running ssh-host-config wouldn't be a bad idea, not only would > it install the Windows sshd service on the new system, but it would > generate unique host keys, otherwise both the new and old systems would > have the same key. > > Sounds like this is doable, but there may be a series of commands that > need to be run, depending on the original installation. I'm not sure what this approach buys you over running setup.exe in unattended install mode on a copied local package cache, except fragility. -- 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/