X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:48:16 +0200 From: peterpan1616 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times In-Reply-To: <488E3FF7.8000907@bmts.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <488DF749.D61CBD8C@dessent.net> <032d01c8f0d3$3daf6650$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20080728211557.GA7646@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <488E3FF7.8000907@bmts.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Really interesting but useless to solve my problem On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> For the time being, you should be able to dump the mount table to a .bat >> file with "mount -m" and then run the .bat on the system that has the >> copied installation. >> >> This technique probably won't work in Cygwin 1.7.x when it is released, >> though. > > Funny enough, this is the kind of problem that is solved by being able > to run the Cygwin setup from the command line. > > On my own system, I keep a downloaded repository in a special folder that is > shared read-only with other computers on the network. > > When I want to roll out my standard Cygwin install on other machines, > which may be vmWare machines or other developer's machines, I just > give them my specially patched setup.exe that accepts package names > and a batch file that runs setup and requests the packages needed for > a clean install plus a few extra packages. > > Run the batch file, and presto, each developer has the same basic set of > packages without monkeying around with the GUI. > > Cheers, Ralph > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/