On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:26:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, J. David Boyd wrote: > >> "Calman, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ><http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>, now with more reasons. > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Our group is interested in installing cygwin on a group of classified >> > computers that are not connected to the internet. Would you please tell me >> > how to download what I need from the internet. Then I'll put it on a CD, >> > carry it into the classified room, and then install on the computers there. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > - Jack Calman >> >> After you have a working installation on any computer, you can zip and >> copy the C:\CYGWIN directory. It is totally self contained, and >> should work fine anywhere. > >Barring insignificant things like OS incompatibilities (e.g., the /etc/* >symlinks), the contents of /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and ownership modes >and permissions (just to give a few examples). IMO, it's always better to >do a clean install on each machine.
something like this should still work, though (untested): 1) On the reference system: mount -m > mounts.bat cd / tar -cjf /cygdrive/c/cygwin.tar.bz2 --exclude=/etc/passwd --exclude=/etc/group 2) "Somehow" copy the following files to a temp directory on the new system, e.g., c:\tmp: cygwin1.dll mount.exe mkpasswd.exe mkgroup.exe tar.exe bzip2.exe mounts.bat cygwin.tar.bz2 3) In c:\tmp .\mounts.bat mkpasswd -l # or -d, or whatever options are appropriate mkgroup -l # or -d, or whatever options are appropriate c: cd \cygwin # or whereever cygwin's root is tar --use-compress-program=/cygdrive/c/tmp/bzip2.exe -xf /cygdrive/c/tmp/cygwin.tar.bz2 There are probably some details that I forgot and some other minor cleanups to worry about but I don't see why the above shouldn't work, at least in principle. 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/
