On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Hancock <andymhanc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a 32-bit XP Pro machine with an old cygwin installation (DLL > version 1.5.25). In the past, started Setup on a machine on which > cygwin was already installed an created a package directory on CD with > the same packages as the installation. I can then install the same > packages on another 32-bit XP Pro machine. I was going to do the > same, but with the target computer being a 64-bit Windows 7 Pro > computer. From my surfing, I don't expect the 64-bit to present a > problem. What about the fact that the source and destination > computers are different OS's? Can some of the downloaded files be > specific an OS?
Well, it looks like it became a moot point. I ran into the legendary error "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file". So I ended up picking and choosing packages from the full buffet of packages again. As it turned out, this was the better way. Lots of stuff I don't use anymore. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
