From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1518 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2013 20:31:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1490 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2013 20:31:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from Unknown (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:31:07 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-69.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.69] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQnb-000Evo-TF for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:30:59 +0000 Received: from cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D2660120 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:30:59 -0500 (EST) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18/NltJapjzo012hYb+W3Be Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:31:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure Message-ID: <20131104203059.GA6006@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C86D@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277D4A0.1050809@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C913@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277DB67.5050903@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C962@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C9B3@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21B05CC@MLBXV06.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21B05CC@MLBXV06.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:13:41PM +0000, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] sent the following at Monday, November 04, 2013 1:28 PM >>Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from >>scratch on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (which contained all the >>requisites of the future machine, including CYGWIN's setup and the >>downloaded directory, as I previously described). > >If you want cygwin on an image DVD, just copy an installation to the >disk from which the DVD is made, thereby avoiding setup. (That is >similar to how I clone my desktop on C: via H: to my laptop - also >on C:.) Then you just need a script to customize /etc/passwd, >/etc/group, create /home/$user, and maybe re-run some of the scripts >in /etc/postinstall/. > >Ideas for updating from a master installation without setup available >upon request. That's how I'd do it if you can get everything to fit on a DVD. >(I suspect that this method is not supported by this list since setup >is not used.) Well, no, but it's simple enough that the only problems I'd expect would be with your scripts. Do you want to package them up and make them available for everyone via setup.exe? Then they actually would be supported. :-) cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple