On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:29:12PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 12:31 AM 10/10/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:40:20PM -0700, David M. Karr wrote: >>>Is there any way of "copying" a 1.3.22 distribution from one box to another >>>box? I know it's not that simple, but is there a list of straightforward >>>places I'd have to patch to make it work (like registry changes)? >> >>It is incredibly simple. Just copy the c:\cygwin directory tree. >>Use "mount -m" to dump the commands to duplicate your mount table >>layout to a .bat file and then run the .bat file on the other >>system to recreate your mount table. > > >Right. Or if one prefers an opaque process, run setup, choose install >from a local directory and point it to the local package directory cache >on the other machine. > >I can't believe I'm telling someone how to *not* fix a bug! ;-)
Yeah, me too. But I had to rise to the challenge of the "it's not that simple". 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/
