Hello, If anyone is interested, I've figured out how to run the Cygwin installer without AutoIT.
You may already be aware that Cygwin's setup.exe takes a few command-line options including -q for quiet; as is noted on the Unattended web site, they don't seem to be very useful. I got a CVS version of setup.exe to dump help to a log file; these where the items I noted for my own purposes: -q quiet install -R cygwin root directory -l local package direcotry --no-desktop don't make a shortcut on the desktop It turns out that the current stable Cygwin setup.exe takes the same paramters, but the behavior is *very* strange. The GUI still starts up, but never prompts the user and instead just rattles ahead with a set of defaults. I was stumped for a few hours because there didn't seem to be a way to set a lot of the most important defaults. The -R and -l switches described above are great but what about selecting an install from local disk rather than from the Internet? Well Cygwin setup.exe is even stranger than I would have guessed: It reads its defaults for root and local package directory from the log it creates in $CYGWIN_ROOT/var/log/setup.log! Later it creates a $CYGWIN_ROOT/etc/setup and stores some variables in files there: $ find etc/setup/ etc/setup/ etc/setup/last-action etc/setup/last-cache etc/setup/last-connection etc/setup/last-mirror etc/setup/timestamp $ cat last-action Install I haven't played around with all of those files, but if you create a setup.log that contains lines like these: 2004/02/10 19:48:29 source: from cwd 2004/02/10 19:48:30 root: c:\cygwin binary system 2004/02/10 19:48:31 Selected local directory: C:\Documents and Settings\ADMINI~1\Desktop and make sure that the last-action file contains the string "Install" then you can run setup.exe -q -R %CYGWIN_ROOT% -l %LOCAL_REPOSITORY% and the setup program will install without any human interaction. I'm working out the specifics for doing this with Unattended, and I will post my .bat scripts etc. Hope this was helpful! Seth de l'Isle ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
