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Re: special install


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> >[snip]
> > something like this should still work, though (untested):
> >
> > 1)
> > On the reference system:
> >
> >   mount -m > mounts.bat
> >   cd /
> >   tar -cjf /cygdrive/c/cygwin.tar.bz2 --exclude=/etc/passwd --exclude=/etc/group
> >
> > 2)
> > "Somehow" copy the following files to a temp directory on the new system, e.g.,
> > c:\tmp:
> >
> > cygwin1.dll
> > mount.exe
> > mkpasswd.exe
> > mkgroup.exe
> > tar.exe
> > bzip2.exe
> > mounts.bat
> > cygwin.tar.bz2
> >
> > 3)
> > In c:\tmp
> >
> >   .\mounts.bat
> >   mkpasswd -l # or -d, or whatever options are appropriate
> >   mkgroup -l  # or -d, or whatever options are appropriate
> >   c:
> >   cd \cygwin # or whereever cygwin's root is
> >   tar --use-compress-program=/cygdrive/c/tmp/bzip2.exe -xf /cygdrive/c/tmp/cygwin.tar.bz2
> >
> > There are probably some details that I forgot and some other minor
> > cleanups to worry about but I don't see why the above shouldn't
> > work, at least in principle.
> >
> > cgf
>
> FWIW, the above is missing at least a couple of things:
>
> - The /etc symlinks
> - The "rm /rf c:\tmp\cygwin1.dll". :-D
            ^
Ugh, how'd that get there?  Make that "rm -rf c:\tmp\cygwin1.dll" or "del
c:\tmp\cygwin1.dll" (removing the other stuff is optional).
	Igor
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