Shared installs

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 15 21:04:00 GMT 2004


At 04:46 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:45:49 -0400, Larry Hall typed:
>> At 12:43 PM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>> At 08:17 PM 4/13/2004, you wrote:
>>>>>>> How about an FAQ entry:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How do I install Cygwin to share over a network?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Having more than one person to be able to access a single
>>>>>>> shared
>>>>>>> instance of Cygwin it is not much different than doing a
>>>>>>> local
>>>>>>> install:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) Install to a network drive. Make sure the the drive
>>>>>>> you pick
>>>>>>> will have the same drive letter for everyone.
>>>>>>> 2) On the machine you used for the install, add the DOS
>>>>>>> path to
>>>>>>> the cygwin bin to PATH
>>>>>>> 3) Fire up a shell and type
>>>>>>> mount -m > remount.sh
>>>>>>> 4) On every other user's computer, just add the cygwin
>>>>>>> bin to the
>>>>>>> PATH, execute remount.sh and give them a shortcut to
>>>>>>> cygwin.bat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We try to limit FAQ entries to those that are frequently
>>>>>> asked.
>>>>>> This one comes up but only once in a while.  The idea is if
>>>>>> the FAQ
>>>>>> becomes to full of "stuff", it will be too hard for anyone
>>>>>> to use.  So we
>>>>>> try to keep it at the "manageable" level by using the axiom
>>>>>> above.  This
>>>>>> would be a reasonable thing to add to the Users Guide IMO.
>>>>>> If you're up
>>>>>> to it, skim through and see if you can see a good spot to
>>>>>> add it.  If you
>>>>>> can create a patch, I'm sure this will get included.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I fired up cvs and tried to grab src/winsup/doc. I
>>>>> ended up with the
>>>>> whole system somehow - thank goodness we are not up on dialup.
>>>>>
>>>>> I figured out what needed modification and made the mods. I
>>>>> then tried
>>>>> firing up the build system to see if I didn't screw things
>>>>> up. ./configure
>>>>> seemed to work ok, but make didn't - no db2html. I searched
>>>>> all the source
>>>>> code (since I had it anyway) but didn't find any files named
>>>>> like db2html
>>>>> nor did I find any entries in any Makefiles to build it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a single search that can be done to figure out in
>>>>> what package
>>>>> db2html might be, so I can download and continue?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is part of docbook but unfortunately there is no Cygwin
>>>> package for
>>>> docbook (at least not yet, other than the DTD and style-
>>>> sheets).  So you'll
>>>> need to grab docbook-tools (http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-
>>>> tools/).
>>>
>>> Actually, IIRC that site is hopelessly out of date, you're better
>>> off grabbing
>>> the docbook-utils source from somewhere else.  But that's beside
>>> the point,
>>> since to build just the FAQ you don't need DocBook (that's for
>>> the User's
>>> Guide). You do need texi2html, in the tetex-bin package.  Then go
>>> to your build
>>> dir and just type 'make faq0.html' to get the FAQ-in-one-HTML-
>>> page.
>>
>>
>> Actually, I had said that this wasn't really FAQ fodder at this
>> point but
>> suggested that it would fit in the User's Guide.
>>
>>
>>> If you really want a full DocBook install, see the cygwin-doc
>>> README for
>>> details about how I do it right now. By the way, cygwin-doc-X.YZ-
>>> src also
>>> contains just the DocBook/texinfo source for the documentation,
>>> though CVS
>>> is definitely the place for patches to the latest.
>>
>>
>> Actually, I'm not sure that the OP wants a full DocBook install but
>> given
>> my comments, he was following the path that lead him there. ;-)
>>
>>
>Thanks for all your help. I'm going to have to put this on the shelf for a few days - I just had a followup to my lasix procedure and my left eye is a mass of tears. I'll report back next week.


Hey, perhaps we should use that as a slogan:

"Cygwin Docs - a real tear-jerker!" ;-)


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