Olle Olsson wrote: > Have good installations of cygwin on some computers. But these were > manually setup using the interactive cygwin setup tool. Always forgot > to install a couple of packages. > > Can a fresh install be made using an existing installation as > template? Is there a way to use the contents of an existing /etc/setup > to download/install on a fresh machine. Or sometjing like that. > > That is, I want to do download/install in a more programmatic way, as > an alternative to a binary copy machine-to-machine.
Setup.exe has a silent installation option, and you can specify all of the settings and selections on the command line, including selecting packages. Run setup.exe --help to see all the options available. The -P option selects packages IIRC. -Jeremy -- 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