X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:23:31 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine Message-ID: <20060116082330.GA3656@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> <20060116075609.GB2088@efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:08:03AM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > > 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. > > Is there an "unattended" install mode? I thought that there is no such > thing , because according to > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html : > "Unfortunately setup.exe does not yet support unattended installs." > > In fact, that's precisely why I asked the question in the first place: > i needed a way to install cygwin without the need of choosing individual > packages; and with no need of internet connection ... I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup --help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its command line options into setup.log.full. Play with running it using them on a previously prepared local download directory, with non-default packages included either by changing setup.ini to add "Base" to their category or adding a dummy mirror directory with a setup.ini having a dummy package that has category Base and requires the other packages you want. -- 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/