> From: Larry Hall
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:32 PM
> > If you *really* want to download absolutely *everything*, just
> > delete the entire contents of your local download directory and
> > start again.
_That_ is plain MEAN ;-)
> Actually, I think that was his original problem. ;-) If you want
> to make setup forget about what you have installed, you need to
> remove the files in '/etc/setup'. This assumes the OP wants to
> install everything too though, which isn't clear from the
> original post.
He wanted it on a cd/rw... IMO that implies _not_ installing it.
Here's an easier way, assuming you have cygwin already installed.
I suppose this could be the basis of a temporary(!?) deactivation of
an entire cygwin installation (maybe even swapping from one cygwin version
to another!); here we go:
$ echo >/recyg.bat "cd \"$(cygpath -w /bin)\""
$ mount -m >>/recyg.bat
Note that if you have this;
$ echo $CYGWIN
... check_case:strict ...
then you might have to launch CMD.EXE (or COMMAND.COM) like this;
$ CMD.EXE
Microsoft Windows <BLURB>
C:\Program\Cygwin\bin> umount -A
C:\Program\Cygwin\bin> mount
c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type system (binmode,noumount)
e: on /cygdrive/e type system (binmode,noumount)
<blah, blah>
run setup.exe, do whatever you like EXCEPT reinstall.
For ease of restoration;
do _NOT_ close the bash you have open.
Note - *This* is why you shouldn't reinstall:
you'll have bash+cygwin1.dll loaded, at least.
Though, FWIW: Closing the bash session+rxvt/console isn't a problem;
all you have to do is look up <cygwin-install-path>\recyg.bat
and execute it.
Given the above _NOT_ closed bash though; restoration is done thus:
C:\Program\Cygwin\bin>..\recyg
<a bunch of mount commands get executed>
C:\Program\Cygwin\bin>mount
<list of previous mounts>
c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type system (binmode,noumount)
e: on /cygdrive/e type system (binmode,noumount)
<blah, blah>
C:\Program\Cygwin\bin>exit
$
...your previous cygwin is back again.
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E
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