X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=RxqmT1qGOnetP/Ng PtryXAgTNEI4FGJwoY1bgUOwYD3O5a/olZYsEkokFAdeReyncMtKL61Uov2Klh+h OPfD3L2HBxFVpcfnzXjs+Efa9jY0K27Sa31VP0eqc82Upvwk+dXbQdZ2xC4sI4YR 3/z69qOc9srLWjjz+4f0T2SvLLE= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=o6P+uRO6uHzyFhyu2z/6k4 2hx1w=; b=jVOBvizvB6VuQ/pUG0FCDm7zJ+zjVPY7kT8Zsdm7ev2ozIbrT5YkYT U5S86tc0BDsMiss8/vAKARXLva8ZruFMaGV98pJIz7dJPrxvrzqdZRX4ZeZMtzQz n+HjkTujmu3ZB1XypnabgS+j1gvsj0M9ljUpQEWGF0dViVcDri3q8= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=gratz, Gratz, guest, HX-Languages-Length:954 X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca Subject: Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <424yaEoFi7856Set DOT 1580479568 AT web03 DOT cms DOT usa DOT net> <20200131141305 DOT GC6676 AT tik DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de> <87r1zfqvo2 DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:25:38 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87r1zfqvo2.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2020-01-31 12:21, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ulli Horlacher writes: >>> To a new naked Windows box, if you can "mount" it over the network >> >> No, I cannot do that. My destination Windows hosts are behind firewalls. >> They cannot mount anything. I have to transfer a container file. > > Try a vhdx maybe? Works only on some editions, flavours, features. Format a USB drive as NTFS, copy the Cygwin directory tree verbatim onto that, then copy the Cygwin directory tree verbatim onto the destination system. You should use a common (admin?) owner, and a common (guest?) user if you want to preset a home dir. You could set everything up in a single tree including packages and setup so that you could do reinstalls if required. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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