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Subject: RE: setup - duplicating cygwin
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:15:47 +0100
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On 16 May 2006 09:20, Jim Easton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with
> me (eg. on a disk) to someone else's machine, both running windows XP,
> whereby I could get setup to download the same cygwin components that
> are on my machine?

  How about the local package cache dir?  That'd do nicely, then you just run
setup.exe on the new machine and tell it to install from local directory, and
point it there.  I believe this is in the FAQ somewhere but don't have a
reference to hand.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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