From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 129109 invoked by alias); 31 Jan 2020 14:06:30 -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 129047 invoked by uid 89); 31 Jan 2020 14:06:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Mar, mar, volume, Wolff X-HELO: mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Received: from mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (HELO mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de) (129.69.192.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:06:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4919728 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:06:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7jbOp_2cwXfU for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:06:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [IPv6:2001:7c0:201c:202:13d1:ef0:c49a:66c2]) by mx4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:06:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by diaspora.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 184C421685 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:06:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:06:00 -0000 From: Ulli Horlacher To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin? Message-ID: <20200131140622.GB6676@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <16fc5b76c50.2780.a1382e26d1292f71ec6ef0cd03d49346@pdc.ca> <20200131102434.GB5074@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> <20200131112904.GC5074@tik.uni-stuttgart.de> <5cc67e71-0edf-90a2-3601-50affd5c14da@towo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5cc67e71-0edf-90a2-3601-50affd5c14da@towo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00334.txt.bz2 On Fri 2020-01-31 (13:54), Thomas Wolff wrote: > > On 31.01.2020 12:29, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > > 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? > > On the source system, within cygwin, zip up everything you want, with > option -y: > cd /; zip -ry cygwin . -x home > or > cd /cygdrive/c; zip -ry cygwin cygwin64 -x ... Ok, I did that. But: > On the target system, install a minimal cygwin unzipping environment: > copy files unzip.exe, cygwin1.dll, cygbz2-1.dll into a subdirectory > called bin > > Use that unzip to unpack your zip file. Voilà! This is way to complicated for my users, they cannot handle it. I tried to write an installer.bat which uses the Windows bsdtar, but it fails with: C:\>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is EC42-8D26 Directory of C:\ 31 Jan 2020 12:45 84.340.162 cygwin64.tgz 31 Jan 2020 14:38 91.960.715 cygwin64.zip 31 Jan 2020 12:45 45 cygwin64_addons.tgz 19 Mar 2019 05:52 PerfLogs 13 Jan 2020 13:12 Program Files 15 Jan 2020 17:32 Program Files (x86) 13 Jan 2020 13:12 Users 13 Jan 2020 14:46 Windows 31 Jan 2020 13:59 xx 31 Jan 2020 14:43 91.960.889 xxx_20200131_144048.zip 4 File(s) 268.261.811 bytes 6 Dir(s) 45.442.043.904 bytes free C:\>tar -xf cygwin64.zip cygwin64/bin/apropos: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\apropos' cygwin64/bin/awk: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\awk' cygwin64/bin/bzcmp: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzcmp' cygwin64/bin/bzegrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzegrep' cygwin64/bin/bzfgrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzfgrep' cygwin64/bin/bzless: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzless' cygwin64/bin/captoinfo: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\captoinfo' ^C C:\> (I run it as administrator). Any idea what went wrong and how I can fix it? -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum TIK Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlacher@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF:<5cc67e71-0edf-90a2-3601-50affd5c14da@towo.net> -- 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