Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:25:59AM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >>I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is >>definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer >>(setup.exe) it'

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:31:55AM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >That's something you should please tell CGF, not me... Actually, I prefer not to be lectured about obvious things. YMMV. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Ralph Hempel
Just for fun, I googled "ralph hempel cygwin mailing list archive" Guess what the first hit is? Ralph -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christoph Herdeg wrote: - Dave, thank so much you for posting setup.exe's command line switches. That was probably the 1st thing Jonathan did. - Christopher, thank you so much for telling the world how dumb everybody is, that doens't do something your way. - Ralf, thank you so much for posting

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christoph Herdeg
03.2010 10:28 Subject:Re: Setup.ini file for S

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 26.03.2010 10:25, schrieb Christoph Herdeg: > Is there eventually a possibility of someone explaining to me why Jonathan > used my incredibly complex and hard to maintain method rather than > following Daves eloquent advice?!? > Although it's so funny that my message cam *after* somebody telling

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-26 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Date: 25.03.2010 13:39 Subject:Re: Setup

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 12:46, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >> I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is >> definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer >> (setup.exe) it's a real pain i

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is >definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer >(setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Funny how your email comes *after* someone

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Ralph Hempel
RESEND - NOW WITH SPELLING MISTAKES FIXED... Christoph Herdeg wrote: Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination d

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christoph Herdeg wrote: Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination directory of "c:\cygwin": - First you need to

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Christoph Herdeg
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Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 09:02, Jonathan Cummings wrote: > Sir/Madam, Please feel free not to stand on formality round here :) > Is it possible to get a setup.ini file to use along side > setup.exe to allow us to install cygwin on multiple servers in our > organisation? -I would then like to add the det

Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Cummings
Sir/Madam, Is it possible to get a setup.ini file to use along side setup.exe to allow us to install cygwin on multiple servers in our organisation? -I would then like to add the details of the packages to be installed in to the setup.ini file for a silent installation across network on to ou