X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4605817B.10102@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:52:27 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Duplicating an install References: <20070324161031 DOT 5DA0B2F5E4 AT xprdmxin DOT myway DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20070324161031.5DA0B2F5E4@xprdmxin.myway.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Brad McNeely wrote: > I've been using cygwin for a while but one question I've got is this. > I've found that the file /etc/installed.db lists all of the cygwin > components that are installed. I've had to rebuild my laptop due to hard > drive failures a couple of times and now have received a new laptop. Is > there a way to have cygwin's setup.exe install the components that are on > my existing laptop automatically without having to pick through the list > and through trial and error re-install the parts I missed? Thanks. This has been asked and answered before on this list. You can find details in the email archives. The short of it is, you can copy /etc/installed.db over and reset all the versions to 0. Then run setup.exe. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/