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RE: 1.5.18( 0.132/4/2 ) - Installer Question


----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 14 September 2005 18:02

> ----Original Message----
>> From: Dave Korn
>> Sent: 14 September 2005 17:44
> 
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Douglas Schilling Landgraf
>>> Sent: 14 September 2005 17:21
>> 
>>> Hello guys,
>>> 
>>>     I have installed cygwin 1.5.18 ( 0.132/4/2 ) on Windows XP and it's
>>> working perfectly. Now, I copied *only* cygwin directory to *another*
>>> machine, when I click at cygwin.bat it doesn't work. What I need to do
>>> to make it work ?
>> 
>> 
>>   If it doesn't work, you need to fix it.  HTH!
>> 
> 
> 
>   P.s:  That's a slightly obscure way of saying that "it doesn't work" is
> an inadequate problem report.  There are many reasons why it might not
> work. Is your computer switched on?  Is there anything in the batch file?
> Does a window appear?  Does nothing happen at all?  Etcetera.
> 
>   So, what actually *does* happen when you click it?  And what happens if
> you open a cmd.exe (DOS) shell, cd into the cygwin dir, and try manually
> typing in the command lines from the .bat file one at a time?
> 


  Oh, and P.P.s:  copying the directory tree from one machine to another
gets you most of the way there, but there won't be any mount points in the
registry.  The first time you run a cygwin app it should create the default
set of mounts for /, /usr/bin and /usr/lib, but the best thing of all would
be to run "mount -m > mount-cmds.bat" on the source machine before you copy
the dir tree across and then run the batch file on the target machine when
you get the files there (will need you to have cygwin's /bin folder in the
win32 path at first).  Alternatively you could use regedit to export the
HKLM/Software/Cygnus Solutions and HKCU/Software/Cygnus solutions trees to
.reg files, and double-click them on the target machine to install them.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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