On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:05:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There are ways of downloading an installation set that involve >> temporarily blinding Windows to your installed Cygwin. > >OK, here goes. You've got Cygwin up and running and maybe even up-to-date. >You want to (1) blind Windows to its existence; (2) download a complete >installation set; (3) recover your existing installation. > >(1) From Cygwin: > > mount -m > /bin/remount.txt > >(This puts an instruction list to achieve (3) into a text file called >remount.txt located in c:\Cygwin\bin\. It's a convenient location for >picking up later.) > >Then issue the command > > umount -A. > >Exit Cygwin. > >Now, from Windows Explorer (or however you prefer to do it) rename the >Cygwin folder to SomeOtherName. (You need to rename your Cygwin directory >otherwise setup will still find c:\Cygwin\setup\etc\installed.db and a few >other things. You don't want this!) > >That completes the blinding. > >(2) Now run http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and ask for Download from Internet. >Download to some well-named directory like c:\Cyg0\ or similar. The default >will give you a Base installation set. Change All Default to All Install to >download a Full installation set. > >When the download is over, then I _think_ that as well as the two filled >directories c:\SomeOtherName\ and, now, c:\Cyg0\ you will also have a new >directory c:\cygwin\ . (I've just tried it, and I did have it, though it was >almost empty.) You don't want this, so simply remove it. > >That completes the Download. > >(3) Now you want to recover your previous Cygwin installation. Rename >SomeOtherName back to Cygwin. Then run > > c:\Cygwin\bin\bash > >to obtain a bash window (probably with the prompt bash-2.05b$. You might >get a "warning: could not find /tmp" msg, but this does not matter.) From >here, > > pwd # to confirm your current location >/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/bin/ > PATH=. # so that the "mount" command can be found > bash remount.txt # to process the remount script > >Then exit. > >Then you can start Cygwin just as you used to. > >Fergus > >PS. I _think_ this is as simple as you can get. If anybody notices a >redundant step or unnecessary complication, please say.
FWIW, the above is exactlhy how I would do this. So, that's either very scary or somewhat reassuring, I suppose. Thanks, Fergus. Perhaps we should add this to the FAQ? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
