Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Hans Horn" Subject: Re: create installation using installed.db Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:09:38 -0700 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <426DE493 DOT 99675097 AT dessent DOT net> X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-63-201-88-157.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian, I guess you are referring to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cygwin&m=110538795118459&w=2 I'll give that a whack. If I follow the instructions from that posting, and burn a CD with that custom installation, what do users have left to do to get a working installation on their machine? Just copying from the inst CD to a local drive would not suffice, would it? H. Brian Dessent wrote: > Hans Horn wrote: > >> I'd like to create a distribution media that allows my group to do >> custom offline installations of cygwin. >> I want this distribution to contain EXACTLY what is currently >> installed on a master machine, plus ALL the corresponding src >> packages. >> >> Now, I know that I can have setup to just download stuff to a local >> directory. >> However, doing that interactively is such a braindead task, so I was >> hoping that there's a simpler way. >> >> Can I use setup in unattended mode to do exactly what I've described >> above? Perhaps using the information it finds in >> /etc/setup/installed.db on the master machine? > > I don't have a link handy, but if you search the archives you'll see > this was asked at least 3 times in the last 6 months, and several > methods of approaching it were described. > > Brian -- 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/