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Dave Korn wrote:

>   This is why most people recommend just copying across the local packages
> dir, and running setup.exe on the new machine telling it to "install from
> local package dir".  There's a fairly open-ended and underspecified list of
> things you'd have to fix up manually if you try to copy the whole install
> across.

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

I have a script which so far does:

* Mounts
* Adds some users and messes with their rights
* Redoes password files
* Adds some services
* Fixes permissions across the whole file tree
* Starts said services

I did originally try and package the whole install up as an MSI, but 
it's just a horrible tool and I gave up.

On two of the hosts that I have installed this on there are the problems 
with slow fork()'s (see my other thread), so I was wondering if I'd 
missed something.

I'd assume I wouldn't need _most_ of the post install since that would 
be duplicated by copying the c:\cygwin\ dir.

I'm trying to get a maintenance window to reboot and rebaseall on the 
machines in question.  Only they're terminal servers in use by people in 
several timezones :(

Cheers,

George

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