Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-04-16 Thread Tom Hall
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:38:56AM +0100, Olle Olsson wrote: > Hi, > > I found the following >   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html > which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. > /olle I was having trouble coming up with a sed command to convert all the version

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/10/2010 12:13 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: On 10.03.2010 15:56, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/10/2010 2:38 AM, Olle Olsson wrote: Hi, I found the following http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. Thanks for the vote o

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 10.03.2010 15:56, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/10/2010 2:38 AM, Olle Olsson wrote: Hi, I found the following http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. Thanks for the vote of confidence but since that was a fairly

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-10 Thread Olle Olsson
Thanks Jeremy, for explaining that setup.exe can be flexibly used at the command line. That is, of course, the way to go. /olle -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe in

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-10 Thread Olle Olsson
Yes , one can use installed.db to define needed packages. I tried it, and it works. /olle -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/10/2010 2:38 AM, Olle Olsson wrote: Hi, I found the following http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. Thanks for the vote of confidence but since that was a fairly labor intensive way of doing it and came at a tim

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-09 Thread Olle Olsson
Hi, I found the following   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. /olle PS To avoid getting bounced by the MAILER-DAEMON I have removed the original message. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/8/2010 6:00 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Olle Olsson sent the following at Monday, March 08, 2010 3:46 AM Have good installations of cygwin on some computers. But these were manually setup using the interactive cygwin setup tool. Always forgot to install a couple of packages

RE: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Olle Olsson sent the following at Monday, March 08, 2010 3:46 AM >Have good installations of cygwin on some computers. But these were >manually setup using the interactive cygwin setup tool. Always forgot to >install a couple of packages. > >Can a fresh install be made using an existing installatio

Re: Installing a "copy" of an installation on a new computer

2010-03-08 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Olle Olsson wrote: > Have good installations of cygwin on some computers. But these were > manually setup using the interactive cygwin setup tool. Always forgot > to install a couple of packages. > > Can a fresh install be made using an existing installation as > template? Is there a way to use th