Re: create installation using installed.db
Op Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:41:26 -0700 schreef Joshua Daniel Franklin in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] : You particularly want 'mount -m': : : -m, --mount-commands write mount commands to replace user and ^^^ : system mount points and cygdrive prefixes Would not ``replicate'' express the intention better, above... : (from mount --help or : http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount) ...and in the manpage? [...] L8r, Buzz. -- ) | | ---/ ---/ Yes, this | This message consists of true | I do not -- | | // really is | and false bits entirely.| mail for ) | | //a 72 by 4 +---+ any1 but -- \--| /--- /--- .sigfile. | |perl -pe s.u(z)\1.as.| me. 4^re -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: create installation using installed.db
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote: Op Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:41:26 -0700 schreef Joshua Daniel Franklin in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] : You particularly want 'mount -m': : : -m, --mount-commands write mount commands to replace user and ^^^ : system mount points and cygdrive prefixes Would not ``replicate'' express the intention better, above... : (from mount --help or : http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount) ...and in the manpage? Yes, it would. I've made the appropriate changes. Thanks. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: create installation using installed.db
On 4/25/05, Hans Horn wrote: Could you explain in a little more detail how I'd use mount for this and what that batch file is meant to contain. You particularly want 'mount -m': -m, --mount-commands write mount commands to replace user and system mount points and cygdrive prefixes (from mount --help or http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount) Those commands are the batch file. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: create installation using installed.db
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 4/24/05, Hans Horn wrote: I'd like to create a distribution media that allows my group to do custom offline installations of cygwin. I want this distribution to contain EXACTLY what is currently installed on a master machine, plus ALL the corresponding src packages. Sounds like you want to just copy the whole tree from c:\cygwin\ (or wherever) to another machine. Use mount to dump your mount table to a batch file and run that on the target machine. Viola. setup.exe will not do what you want since packages available are a moving target--there's no way to guarantee certain versions. Josh, It really doesn't matter how it's done, as long as it works. Could you explain in a little more detail how I'd use mount for this and what that batch file is meant to contain. thx a lot, H. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: create installation using installed.db
Hans Horn wrote: I'd like to create a distribution media that allows my group to do custom offline installations of cygwin. I want this distribution to contain EXACTLY what is currently installed on a master machine, plus ALL the corresponding src packages. Now, I know that I can have setup to just download stuff to a local directory. However, doing that interactively is such a braindead task, so I was hoping that there's a simpler way. Can I use setup in unattended mode to do exactly what I've described above? Perhaps using the information it finds in /etc/setup/installed.db on the master machine? I don't have a link handy, but if you search the archives you'll see this was asked at least 3 times in the last 6 months, and several methods of approaching it were described. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: create installation using installed.db
Brian, I guess you are referring to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cygwinm=110538795118459w=2 I'll give that a whack. If I follow the instructions from that posting, and burn a CD with that custom installation, what do users have left to do to get a working installation on their machine? Just copying from the inst CD to a local drive would not suffice, would it? H. Brian Dessent wrote: Hans Horn wrote: I'd like to create a distribution media that allows my group to do custom offline installations of cygwin. I want this distribution to contain EXACTLY what is currently installed on a master machine, plus ALL the corresponding src packages. Now, I know that I can have setup to just download stuff to a local directory. However, doing that interactively is such a braindead task, so I was hoping that there's a simpler way. Can I use setup in unattended mode to do exactly what I've described above? Perhaps using the information it finds in /etc/setup/installed.db on the master machine? I don't have a link handy, but if you search the archives you'll see this was asked at least 3 times in the last 6 months, and several methods of approaching it were described. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: create installation using installed.db
On 4/24/05, Hans Horn wrote: I'd like to create a distribution media that allows my group to do custom offline installations of cygwin. I want this distribution to contain EXACTLY what is currently installed on a master machine, plus ALL the corresponding src packages. Sounds like you want to just copy the whole tree from c:\cygwin\ (or wherever) to another machine. Use mount to dump your mount table to a batch file and run that on the target machine. Viola. setup.exe will not do what you want since packages available are a moving target--there's no way to guarantee certain versions. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
