From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer:
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381677255.20181125225824@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BFAF665.2030202@tlinx.org>
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Greetings, L A Walsh!
> On 11/25/2018 9:08 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>> Am 25.11.2018 um 15:38 schrieb Lester Ingber:
>>> I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad
>>> to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my
>>> old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ .
>>> cd c:/
>>> tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar &
>>> Then e:/cygwin64.tar would be mounted on my new computer.
>>
>> You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer
>> has no 'tar' to unpack that file.
> ---
> Hmm...can't tar it, but he could drag&drop from Explorer
> like he was moving the image (but do a copy instead).
It would screw permissions on Cygwin files/directories.
> It should pick up everything, as that's what explorer
> would do.
> One caveat. if you have a /etc/passwd + group...
> you will need to change the entries for local users on the disk cuz
> your computer's "machine id" has changed, and local accounts will
> get a different UID because of that. If you don't use the /etc/passwd
> and group...then it might just work...though there will need to be
> some entry in the registry. Might be easiest to install an empty
> cygwin on new machine (minimal install, only required packages),
> then copy your old cygwin-dir on top of the new one.
> The worst that could happen is you'd have to reinstall the
> normal way. (Obviously you don't destroy old image before new image
> is verified as working).
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, November 25, 2018 22:57:46
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-25 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-25 14:39 tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer? Lester Ingber
2018-11-25 17:09 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2018-11-25 19:22 ` tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer: L A Walsh
2018-11-25 20:05 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2018-11-26 19:19 ` L A Walsh
2018-11-25 17:20 ` tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer? Achim Gratz
2018-11-25 18:50 ` Andrey Repin
2018-11-25 19:31 ` Lester Ingber
2018-11-25 20:13 ` Achim Gratz
2018-11-26 13:47 ` KARL BOTTS
2018-11-26 20:32 Gilbert St. Firmin
2018-11-26 21:22 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2018-11-27 15:20 ` Andrey Repin
2018-11-27 15:34 ` cyg Simple
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