X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:13:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jim Easton cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup - duplicating cygwin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 19 Jun 2006, Jim Easton wrote: > Hi Igor > > > > 1) using windows read "installed.db" into "my documents" > > > 2) the version numbers were already set to zero. > > > > Whup. Stop right here. When you say "the version numbers were already > > set to zero", you don't mean those extra zeroes at the end of each line, > > do you? Because if you do, that field has nothing to do with version > > numbers. Setup extracts the version number from the name of the tarball > > in the first field (notice, I said "replace them by '0.0-0'", not "replace > > them by '0'"). If you actually edit the filenames in the first field of > > installed.db and repeat what you've tried, it should work. > > Gaaah!! Gee it's bright in here - now. I feel pretty stupid. > My excuse is I'm getting old and my brain is turning to mush. :-) > > Thank you. > > Tell me; In case things go wrong, to recover my present configuration > is it sufficient to simply restore /cygdrive/c/cygwin and > /cygdrive/c/cygwin.disk or is there something more subtle going on. If you didn't change the mounts, it should be sufficient to restore c:\cygwin. I don't know what c:\cygwin.disk is -- probably something specific to your system that you've created. If you did change the mounts, the FAQ mentions a way of saving/restoring them by writing the output of the "mount -m" command to a batch file and then running it. > For example: > If I cd into cygwin that has been made by setup I get: > $ cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin > $ ls > Thumbs.db cygdrive cygwin.ico home proc tmp var > bin cygwin.bat etc lib sbin usr > $ > > Whereas the tarred/untarred version of cygwin is: > $ cd /cygdrive/h/cygwin > $ ls > Thumbs.db bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib sbin tmp usr var > $ > > cygdrive and proc are missing. I take it there is no proc or > cygdrive directories. They are virtual directories, as is /dev (but /dev doesn't show up in the root directory listing yet). > I also found I have to use tar for this, if you try to use windows it > messes up pointers and, for all I know, other things. You can also simply rename the directory (which will effectively hide it from Cygwin), and then rename it back. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/