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


Olle Olsson wrote:
> 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/setup
> to download/install on a fresh machine. Or sometjing like that.
> 
> That is, I want to do download/install in a more programmatic way, as
> an alternative to a binary copy machine-to-machine.

Setup.exe has a silent installation option, and you can specify all of
the settings and selections on the command line, including selecting
packages.  Run setup.exe --help to see all the options available.  The
-P option selects packages IIRC.

-Jeremy

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