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/ 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. >> >> You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer >> has no 'tar' to unpack that file. > --- > 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. > It should pick up everything, as that's what explorer > would do. > One caveat. if you have a /etc/passwd + group... > you will need to change the entries for local users on the disk cuz > your computer's "machine id" has changed, and local accounts will > get a different UID because of that. If you don't use the /etc/passwd > and group...then it might just work...though there will need to be > some entry in the registry. Might be easiest to install an empty > cygwin on new machine (minimal install, only required packages), > then copy your old cygwin-dir on top of the new one. > The worst that could happen is you'd have to reinstall the > normal way. (Obviously you don't destroy old image before new image > is verified as working). -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, November 25, 2018 22:57:46 Sorry for my terrible english...
