X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4B958982.6060205@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:34:26 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208B5EEA203 AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> In-reply-to: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208B5EEA203@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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 On 3/8/2010 6:00 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Olle Olsson sent the following at Monday, March 08, 2010 3:46 AM >> Have good installations of cygwin on some computers. But these were >> manually setup using the interactive cygwin setup tool. Always forgot to >> install a couple of packages. >> >> Can a fresh install be made using an existing installation as template? >> Is there a way to use the contents of an existing /etc/setup to >> download/install on a fresh machine. Or something like that. >> >> That is, I want to do download/install in a more programmatic way, as an >> alternative to a binary copy machine-to-machine. > > You might think about just copying c:\cygwin. Not there there's anything inherently wrong about this suggestion but I want to point out that going this route puts you firmly in the land of "you better know what you're doing". Installations duplicated like this can't be supported by this list. So if you're looking for a "sanctioned" way of automating this process, go with Jeremy's suggestion. -- 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? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple