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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:40:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: special install
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:26:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, J. David Boyd wrote:
> >
> >> "Calman, Jack" <Jack DOT Calman AT XXXXXX DOT XXX> writes:
> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> >  Our group is interested in installing cygwin on a group of classified
> >> > computers that are not connected to the internet. Would you please tell me
> >> > how to download what I need from the internet. Then I'll put it on a CD,
> >> > carry it into the classified room, and then install on the computers there.
> >> >
> >> >  Thanks,
> >> >  - Jack Calman
> >>
> >> After you have a working installation on any computer, you can zip and
> >> copy the C:\CYGWIN directory.  It is totally self contained, and
> >> should work fine anywhere.
> >
> >Barring insignificant things like OS incompatibilities (e.g., the /etc/*
> >symlinks), the contents of /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and ownership modes
> >and permissions (just to give a few examples).  IMO, it's always better to
> >do a clean install on each machine.
>
> something like this should still work, though (untested):
>
> 1)
> On the reference system:
>
>   mount -m > mounts.bat
>   cd /
>   tar -cjf /cygdrive/c/cygwin.tar.bz2 --exclude=/etc/passwd --exclude=/etc/group
>
> 2)
> "Somehow" copy the following files to a temp directory on the new system, e.g.,
> c:\tmp:
>
> cygwin1.dll
> mount.exe
> mkpasswd.exe
> mkgroup.exe
> tar.exe
> bzip2.exe
> mounts.bat
> cygwin.tar.bz2
>
> 3)
> In c:\tmp
>
>   .\mounts.bat
>   mkpasswd -l # or -d, or whatever options are appropriate
>   mkgroup -l  # or -d, or whatever options are appropriate
>   c:
>   cd \cygwin # or whereever cygwin's root is
>   tar --use-compress-program=/cygdrive/c/tmp/bzip2.exe -xf /cygdrive/c/tmp/cygwin.tar.bz2
>
> There are probably some details that I forgot and some other minor
> cleanups to worry about but I don't see why the above shouldn't
> work, at least in principle.
>
> cgf

FWIW, the above is missing at least a couple of things:

- The /etc symlinks
- The "rm /rf c:\tmp\cygwin1.dll". :-D
	Igor
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