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Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation
- From: matt rice <m at blackandwhiterainbow dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:56:04 -0800
- Subject: Re: Installation on CD-Rom, Copying a whole installation
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree
- References: <20020317225326.7716B4A5D@flognat.myip.org> <m3g02yl39k.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries can easily be
converted into a cygwin installer package..
you need to do 2 things... create a cygwin package and create a hint
file to install it...
download the cygwin binaries
uncompress them all...
this should convert the cygwin Xfree86 binary into a package usable by
the installer.... (not that i've tested it)
mkdir -p /tmp/usr/X11R6
mv ./* /tmp/usr
cd /tmp
tar -C /tmp -czvf XPackage.tgz usr
create the setup.hint
the cygwin contributors guide: http://cygwin.com/setup.html
Note: you'll have to install packages from a local directory.
Andrew Markebo wrote:
> | - if all this is not possible, is there anybody out there who has written a
> | nice installation-skript that installs xfree after cygwin is installed (this
> | should not be too difficult for the average pupil) and can be edited to
> | install some software too? If not, I will probably try to write one myself,
> | but of course I´m not interested in reinventing the wheel...
>
> The normal Xfree installation is done through a script
> [your fav. mirror]/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0/Xinstall.sh
>
> What to do I think is like throw a selection of the contents (and
> unpacked extract.exe.gz) of
> [your fav. mirror]/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0/
> and I think the students will survive running Xinstall.sh from there in
> their bash window..
>
> /Andy
>