Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-06-07 Thread Stephan Erickson
> setup --help displays nothing for me Try: setup.exe --help tail setup.log The parameters are sent to the log file... Stephan Erickson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: htt

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > Uh, you are right. Sorry guys, I haven't read the entire phrase written by > > Yitzchak ... my fault. > > It looks like I am too used to the idea of programs writing their messages > > to stdin/stdout . > > It certainly qualifies as "quaint" behavior. If you

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 16 10:22, Brett Serkez wrote: > [snip] > > I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup > > --help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its > > command line options into setup.log.full. > > This list currently contains an interesting switch: > > -A -

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Brett Serkez
[snip] > I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup > --help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its > command line options into setup.log.full. This list currently contains an interesting switch: -A --disable-buggy-antivirus Disable known or s

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: > On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adrian Maier wrote: > > > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup > > >>--hel

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Adrian Maier
On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Maier wrote: > > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup > >>--help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its > >>command l

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup --help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its command line options into setup.log.full. Play with running it using them on a

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Adrian Maier
On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*". Run setup > --help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its > command line options into setup.log.full. Play with running it using > them on a previously pr

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:08:03AM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Is there

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Adrian Maier
On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. Is there an "unattended" install mode? I thought that there is no such thing , becau

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
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, >

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
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 'b

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Brett Serkez
[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

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: [snip] Is it just the mount points that are the issue? The path? The desktop icon? It is possible to run setup against such an 'installation' to update it? It's primarily just the mount points. See Corinna's message in this thread for recreating them. The desktop & sta

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Brett Serkez
[snip] > > Is it just the mount points that are the issue? The path? The > > desktop icon? It is possible to run setup against such an > > 'installation' to update it? > > It's primarily just the mount points. See Corinna's message in this > thread for recreating them. > > The desktop & start me

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: My question is: what are the settings required by cygwin to operate normally? ( i guess it needs some environment variables and/or registry settings ). Is it just the mount points that are the issue? The path? The desktop icon? It is possible to run setup against suc

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Adrian Maier
On 1/13/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can we please refrain from pointing to the registry all the time? > > You can check out your mount points by `mount -m > my_mounts', edit > the my_mounts file at will, copy it over to the bin directory on the > target system, and then chec

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Brett Serkez
> My question is: what are the settings required by cygwin to operate > normally? ( i guess it needs some environment variables and/or > registry settings ). Is it just the mount points that are the issue? The path? The desktop icon? It is possible to run setup against such an 'installation

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 09:49, Chris Taylor wrote: > Adrian Maier wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I am looking for a quick and easy way to install cygwin on other computers > >so > >that it contains exactly the packages that i need, other customisations > >and > > other programs built manually. > > > >In order to do

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Adrian Maier wrote: Hello, I am looking for a quick and easy way to install cygwin on other computers so that it contains exactly the packages that i need, other customisations and other programs built manually. In order to do that, I have simply zipped the entire c:\cygwin directory , put it

Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Adrian Maier
Hello, I am looking for a quick and easy way to install cygwin on other computers so that it contains exactly the packages that i need, other customisations and other programs built manually. In order to do that, I have simply zipped the entire c:\cygwin directory , put it on a cd, and unzippe