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From: "Danko, Gary" <gary DOT danko AT akamai DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Pushing out Cygwin installations
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:20:45 -0500
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I did notice on my Win2k test box here at work I have the key:

HKLM\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts

And under that is a bunch of empty keys.

The NT box I installed to doesn't have the 'CYGWIN.DLL setup' key


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:15 AM
To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
Cc: gary DOT danko AT akamai DOT com
Subject: Re: Pushing out Cygwin installations


On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:01:28PM -0500, Danko, Gary wrote:
>I couldn't find this anywhere in the archives. I want to install Cygwin
once
>and push it out to about 150 indentical servers. I tried copying the
>directory as well as the registry key to another server but that failed to
>give me the desired results.
>
>The NEW installation couldn't find "root" so that made me curious. Where
>does Cygwin store the information about the location of root?
>
>If I install Cygwin on one machine.. How could I copy that installation
>reliably to another machine?

The mount table is stored in the registry.  You must not have copied
it correctly.

However, you really should just use "mount" to duplicate the directory
structure on the other machines.  Copying the registry keys bypasses
Cygwin and we make no guarantees that the registry keys will remain
the same between releases.

We do, of course, try to ensure that "mount" and "umount" continue
to work as expected.

cgf

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