On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:59:25PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: > [snip] > > Not particularly, assuming you use the same local package cache on > > each machine, especially if you use the trick for pulling in all the > > packages you want automatically. > > Right. > > > I don't know about chere, > > chere must have settings in the registry, as it adds a 'bash here' menu > option in explorer when you right click on a directory. You'd have to > run 'chere -i' on the new system. > > > That means that setup, services like sshd, cron, inetd, etcetera will > > be available for installation. > > Right, available for installation, you'd have to run the setup scripts. > I suppose running ssh-host-config wouldn't be a bad idea, not only would > it install the Windows sshd service on the new system, but it would > generate unique host keys, otherwise both the new and old systems would > have the same key. > > Sounds like this is doable, but there may be a series of commands that > need to be run, depending on the original installation.
I'm not sure what this approach buys you over running setup.exe in unattended install mode on a copied local package cache, except fragility. -- 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/
