Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?
Ulli Horlacher
framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Fri Jan 31 14:06:00 GMT 2020
On Fri 2020-01-31 (13:54), Thomas Wolff wrote:
>
> On 31.01.2020 12:29, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>
> > On Fri 2020-01-31 (11:24), Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon 2020-01-20 (19:28), Brent Epp wrote:
> >>
> >>> Cygwin is totally portable! You can simply copy the installation folder to
> >>> another PC, copy the shortcut (edit target if needed) and it will work.
> >> How do you copy it?
> >> Which archive container do you use?
>
> On the source system, within cygwin, zip up everything you want, with
> option -y:
> cd /; zip -ry cygwin . -x home
> or
> cd /cygdrive/c; zip -ry cygwin cygwin64 -x ...
Ok, I did that.
But:
> On the target system, install a minimal cygwin unzipping environment:
> copy files unzip.exe, cygwin1.dll, cygbz2-1.dll into a subdirectory
> called bin
>
> Use that unzip to unpack your zip file. Voilà !
This is way to complicated for my users, they cannot handle it.
I tried to write an installer.bat which uses the Windows bsdtar, but it
fails with:
C:\>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is EC42-8D26
Directory of C:\
31 Jan 2020 12:45 84.340.162 cygwin64.tgz
31 Jan 2020 14:38 91.960.715 cygwin64.zip
31 Jan 2020 12:45 45 cygwin64_addons.tgz
19 Mar 2019 05:52 <DIR> PerfLogs
13 Jan 2020 13:12 <DIR> Program Files
15 Jan 2020 17:32 <DIR> Program Files (x86)
13 Jan 2020 13:12 <DIR> Users
13 Jan 2020 14:46 <DIR> Windows
31 Jan 2020 13:59 <DIR> xx
31 Jan 2020 14:43 91.960.889 xxx_20200131_144048.zip
4 File(s) 268.261.811 bytes
6 Dir(s) 45.442.043.904 bytes free
C:\>tar -xf cygwin64.zip
cygwin64/bin/apropos: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\apropos'
cygwin64/bin/awk: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\awk'
cygwin64/bin/bzcmp: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzcmp'
cygwin64/bin/bzegrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzegrep'
cygwin64/bin/bzfgrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzfgrep'
cygwin64/bin/bzless: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzless'
cygwin64/bin/captoinfo: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\captoinfo'
^C
C:\>
(I run it as administrator).
Any idea what went wrong and how I can fix it?
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