From: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200131112904.GC5074@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200131102434.GB5074@tik.uni-stuttgart.de>
On Fri 2020-01-31 (11:24), Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> On Mon 2020-01-20 (19:28), Brent Epp wrote:
>
> > Cygwin is totally portable! You can simply copy the installation folder to
> > another PC, copy the shortcut (edit target if needed) and it will work.
>
> How do you copy it?
> Which archive container do you use?
>
> I have tried it with:
>
> /: cat zip.bat
> cd C:\
> \7z\7za a -tzip -xr!cygwin64/home/* -xr!cygwin64/var/log/* tmp\cygwin64.zip cygwin64
>
> But in resulting cygwin64.zip the directories /cygdrive /proc /usr/bin and /usr/lib are
> missing, because they are mount points.
I have now extracted this cygwin64.zip on a second Windows host using the
Windows bsdtar
I have started a mintty with bash:
The missing mountpoint directories were created automagically :-)
> Next problem is: the file permissions will not be restored.
And all symbolic links have been extracted as regular files :-(
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-31 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-21 0:58 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-21 1:27 ` Brent Epp
2020-01-31 10:25 ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-01-31 11:29 ` Ulli Horlacher [this message]
2020-01-31 12:05 ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-01-31 12:54 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-01-31 14:06 ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-02-01 10:05 ` Andrey Repin
2020-02-01 11:21 ` BGINFO4X
2020-02-03 16:40 ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-02-03 17:01 ` BGINFO4X
2020-02-04 17:16 ` Ulli Horlacher
[not found] ` <16fc5b08e80.2780.a1382e26d1292f71ec6ef0cd03d49346@pdc.ca>
2020-01-21 2:33 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-21 2:55 ` Brent Epp
2020-01-21 4:46 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-01-21 20:33 ` Achim Gratz
2020-01-28 21:35 ` Andrey Repin
2020-01-28 22:00 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-21 19:17 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-31 14:06 KARL BOTTS
2020-01-31 14:13 ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-01-31 19:21 ` Achim Gratz
2020-01-31 20:25 ` Brian Inglis
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