Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-27 Thread cyg Simple
On 11/27/2018 10:12 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Gilbert St. Firmin! On: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:08:35 +0100, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has no 'tar' to unpack that file. Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be us

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gilbert St. Firmin! > On: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:08:35 +0100, > Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has > no 'tar' to unpack that file. > Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be used on both old and new > computers? Al

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-26 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 26.11.2018 um 21:32 schrieb Gilbert St. Firmin: > Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be used on both old and new > computers? Possibly. If that can be taught to copy all the attributes used by Cygwin, without running into the usual problems we see whenever Windows tools are used to ha

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-26 Thread Gilbert St. Firmin
On: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:08:35 +0100, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has no 'tar' to unpack that file. Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be used on both old and new computers? Also, perhaps the Windows Image Format (WIM) c

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer:

2018-11-26 Thread L A Walsh
On 11/25/2018 11:58 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, L A Walsh! --- Hmm...can't tar it, but he could drag&drop from Explorer like he was moving the image (but do a copy instead). It would screw permissions on Cygwin files/directories. --- Perhaps, I haven't tried this particular

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-26 Thread KARL BOTTS
This may not be strictly supported, but I have been doing it for at least 10 years: Once I have a new host network accessible from the old, I simply copy c:/cygwin from old to new. Access can be via UNC, mapped drive, whatever. I normally use 'cp -a' to do the copy, but have done it other ways.

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Lester Ingber writes: > On the new PC I use Powershell (as Admin) to run setup-x86_64.exe for the > Base setup. Not absolutely needed, but it creates all the directories and files you need correctly, so it's a good start. > From the old PC I can use the /etc/setup/installed.db file in the new ma

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer:

2018-11-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, L A Walsh! > On 11/25/2018 9:08 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: >> Am 25.11.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Lester Ingber: >>> I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad >>> to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my >>> old c:/cygwin64/

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Lester Ingber
Andrey: Hi. As I understand this now: On the new PC I use Powershell (as Admin) to run setup-x86_64.exe for the Base setup. >From the old PC I can use the /etc/setup/installed.db file in the new machine >at the same location. On the old machine, 5-6 years ago I used c:/cygwin64/ for the top di

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer:

2018-11-25 Thread L A Walsh
On 11/25/2018 9:08 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 25.11.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Lester Ingber: I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . cd

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Lester Ingber! > I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad > to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my > old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . > cd c:/ > tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar & > Then e:/cygwin64.tar

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Lester Ingber writes: > I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad > to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my > old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . > cd c:/ > tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar & > Then e:/cygwin64.tar would

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 25.11.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Lester Ingber: > I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad > to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my > old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . > cd c:/ > tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar & > Th

tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Lester Ingber
I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . cd c:/ tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar & Then e:/cygwin64.tar would be mounted on my new computer. I