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From: "Matthew O. Persico" <matthew DOT persico AT verizon DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>,
   Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:46:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: Shared installs
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:45:49 -0400, Larry Hall typed:
> At 12:43 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>> At 08:17 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote:
>>>>>> How about an FAQ entry:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I install Cygwin to share over a network?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Having more than one person to be able to access a single
>>>>>> shared
>>>>>> instance of Cygwin it is not much different than doing a
>>>>>> local
>>>>>> install:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Install to a network drive. Make sure the the drive
>>>>>> you pick
>>>>>> will have the same drive letter for everyone.
>>>>>> 2) On the machine you used for the install, add the DOS
>>>>>> path to
>>>>>> the cygwin bin to PATH
>>>>>> 3) Fire up a shell and type
>>>>>> mount -m > remount.sh
>>>>>> 4) On every other user's computer, just add the cygwin
>>>>>> bin to the
>>>>>> PATH, execute remount.sh and give them a shortcut to
>>>>>> cygwin.bat
>>>>>
>>>>> We try to limit FAQ entries to those that are frequently
>>>>> asked.
>>>>> This one comes up but only once in a while.  The idea is if
>>>>> the FAQ
>>>>> becomes to full of "stuff", it will be too hard for anyone
>>>>> to use.  So we
>>>>> try to keep it at the "manageable" level by using the axiom
>>>>> above.  This
>>>>> would be a reasonable thing to add to the Users Guide IMO.
>>>>> If you're up
>>>>> to it, skim through and see if you can see a good spot to
>>>>> add it.  If you
>>>>> can create a patch, I'm sure this will get included.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, I fired up cvs and tried to grab src/winsup/doc. I
>>>> ended up with the
>>>> whole system somehow - thank goodness we are not up on dialup.
>>>>
>>>> I figured out what needed modification and made the mods. I
>>>> then tried
>>>> firing up the build system to see if I didn't screw things
>>>> up. ./configure
>>>> seemed to work ok, but make didn't - no db2html. I searched
>>>> all the source
>>>> code (since I had it anyway) but didn't find any files named
>>>> like db2html
>>>> nor did I find any entries in any Makefiles to build it.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a single search that can be done to figure out in
>>>> what package
>>>> db2html might be, so I can download and continue?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is part of docbook but unfortunately there is no Cygwin
>>> package for
>>> docbook (at least not yet, other than the DTD and style-
>>> sheets).  So you'll
>>> need to grab docbook-tools (http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-
>>> tools/).
>>
>> Actually, IIRC that site is hopelessly out of date, you're better
>> off grabbing
>> the docbook-utils source from somewhere else.  But that's beside
>> the point,
>> since to build just the FAQ you don't need DocBook (that's for
>> the User's
>> Guide). You do need texi2html, in the tetex-bin package.  Then go
>> to your build
>> dir and just type 'make faq0.html' to get the FAQ-in-one-HTML-
>> page.
>
>
> Actually, I had said that this wasn't really FAQ fodder at this
> point but
> suggested that it would fit in the User's Guide.
>
>
>> If you really want a full DocBook install, see the cygwin-doc
>> README for
>> details about how I do it right now. By the way, cygwin-doc-X.YZ-
>> src also
>> contains just the DocBook/texinfo source for the documentation,
>> though CVS
>> is definitely the place for patches to the latest.
>
>
> Actually, I'm not sure that the OP wants a full DocBook install but
> given
> my comments, he was following the path that lead him there. ;-)
>
>
Thanks for all your help. I'm going to have to put this on the shelf for a few days - I just had a followup to my lasix procedure and my left eye is a mass of tears. I'll report back next week.
--
Matthew O. Persico



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