X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:41:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Creating package directory for Windows 7 64-bit from Windows XP Pro 32-bit From: Andrew Hancock To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p5Q4fXbc030793 On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: > > I have a 32-bit XP Pro machine with an old cygwin installation (DLL > version 1.5.25).  In the past, started Setup on a machine on which > cygwin was already installed an created a package directory on CD with > the same packages as the installation.  I can then install the same > packages on another 32-bit XP Pro machine.  I was going to do the > same, but with the target computer being a 64-bit Windows 7 Pro > computer.  From my surfing, I don't expect the 64-bit to present a > problem.  What about the fact that the source and destination > computers are different OS's?  Can some of the downloaded files be > specific an OS? Well, it looks like it became a moot point. I ran into the legendary error "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file". So I ended up picking and choosing packages from the full buffet of packages again. As it turned out, this was the better way. Lots of stuff I don't use anymore. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple