Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/4/2013 11:22 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to help my site's Systems team to straighten up CYGWIN
> installation process, which they will need to perform to build new
> PCs, and I have volunteered to ask on their behalf here..
>
> As far as they can tell, there is no such an installation option that
> tells to install "everything from the download directory".  What they
> do is that they run setup.exe to manually check everything from the available
> packages that they want to have installed on a PC, then they follow the option
> to download any left-over package dependencies, from which step setup.exe takes
> control and downloads / installs the selections.
>
> Now, they want to replay the setup unattended with using only those downloaded
> packages again, on any other new PC, without going through the selection process
> again, so basically to install everything that setup.exe has already
> _downloaded_ to a certain directory when run manually (where all the
> dependencies have already been satisfied, so the set is self-sufficient).
>
> How / Whether can they do such an install?

Though I haven't experimented with this myself, I'd recommend looking at
using "setup*.exe" on the command line and listing the packages to install
there.

-- 
Larry

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