Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

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/

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

Hi, I found the following   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. /olle PS To avoid getting bounced by the MAILER-DAEMON I have removed the original message. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

Yes , one can use installed.db to define needed packages. I tried it, and it works. /olle -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

Thanks Jeremy, for explaining that setup.exe can be flexibly used at the command line. That is, of course, the way to go. /olle -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe in