Am 25.11.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Lester Ingber: > I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad > to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my > old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . > cd c:/ > tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar & > Then e:/cygwin64.tar would be mounted on my new computer.
You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has no 'tar' to unpack that file. > I'm assuming that there is not actual install required, e.g., having to > run setup-x86_64.exe first on the new computer? That assumption is incorrect. If your in-house network really is so significantly faster than outside internet that this makes a difference, what you can usefully copy over from one machine to the other would be setup.exe's package cache directory tree. Other than that, there's really no workable short cut compared to simply running setup. -- 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
